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The siege of Kiev by the Mongols took place between 28 November and 6 December 1240, and resulted in a Mongol victory. It was a heavy morale and military blow to the Principality of Galicia–Volhynia, which was forced to submit to Mongol suzerainty, and allowed Batu Khan to proceed westward into Central Europe.
Batu Khan (c. 1205 –1255) [note 1] was a Mongol ruler and founder of the Golden Horde, a constituent of the Mongol Empire established after Genghis Khan's demise. Batu was a son of Jochi, thus a grandson of Genghis Khan. His ulus ruled over the Kievan Rus', Volga Bulgaria, Cumania, and the Caucasus for around 250 years.
The Mongol conquests resulted in widespread and well-documented death and destruction throughout Eurasia, as the Mongol army invaded hundreds of cities and killed millions of people. As such, the Mongol Empire , which remains the largest contiguous polity to ever have existed, is regarded as having perpetrated some of the deadliest acts of mass ...
Batu Khan captured Pest, and then on Christmas Day 1241, Esztergom. [18] Prince Michael of Chernigov was passed between fires in accordance with ancient Turco-Mongol tradition. Batu Khan ordered him to prostrate himself before the tablets of Genghis Khan. The Mongols stabbed him to death for his refusal to do obeisance to Genghis Khan's shrine.
The Golden Horde [a] (released as Great War Nations: The Mongols in some territories) is a 2008 real-time strategy video game for Windows. Developed by World Forge, it was published in Russia by Russobit-M in February 2008, in Europe by JoWooD in March, in North America by DreamCatcher Interactive in July, and in Australia by n3vrf41l Publishing in September.
Batu Khan constructs Sarai [9] Batu Khan dies and is succeeded by his son Sartaq Khan, who dies soon after, and then Ulaghchi [10] 1256: Daniel of Galicia expels Mongol garrisons from his territory [2] Golden Horde carries out census of Ruthenian lands [6] 1257: Ulaghchi dies and Berke, a Muslim, succeeds him [8] 1258: Novgorod rebels and is ...
At the end of the fall, Batu's troops took Kiev. During that time Daniel stayed in Hungary conducting negotiations. Batu Khan moved towards Volodymyr. On his way Batu unsuccessfully tried to take the fortress of Kolodyazhyn (ru:Колодяжин), near the Sluch River. However, after some negotiations, the city residents were tricked into ...
The Principality of Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal also played this power game according to the Mongol rules in 1353 and 1371. [22] In the mid-14th century, Algirdas (Olgerd) of Lithuania would try to bring Tver and Ryazan under his control during the Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1368–1372) , and also played by the Mongol rules by sending a delegation ...