Mongol
GOLDEN HORDE
GOLDEN HORDE. Russian name for the Mongol domains of Russia and neighboring areas. The name derives from a nickname for the palace tent (Middle Mongolian hordo) of the Golden Horde ruler. The Golden Horde, founded by CHINGGIS KHAN’s eldest son, Jochi, unified for the first time the lands around the Kazakh, Caspian, and Black Sea steppes. Successors to the Golden…
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The most potent weapon of the Mongols was terror
The twelfth- and early thirteenth-century walls of Merv (Turkmenistan). The photograph shows how the twelfth-century walls, with their hollow towers and arrow slits, have been strengthened by a massive outer covering, probably hastily built in the face of the Mongol invasions. It was all to no avail: the city fell…
Mamluks and Mongols III
While Louis tried to pick up the pieces of his shattered crusade in Acre, news of its defeat stirred deep emotions among the rural population in France. What happened was not unlike the reaction to the loss of Jerusalem when the Children’s Crusade had burst through the towns and hamlets…
![Battle of the Sajó River [Battle of Mohi]](https://weaponsandwarfare.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Battle-of-the-Sajo-River-Battle-of-Mohi-330x220.jpg "Battle of the Sajó River [Battle of Mohi] 12")
Battle of the Sajó River [Battle of Mohi]
BĂ©la IV flees from Mohi, detail from Chronicon Pictum Date April 11, 1241 Location Muhi on the SajĂł River in northeastern Hungary Opponents (* winner) *Mongols Hungarians *Mongols Commander Subotai Hungarians King BĂ©la IV Approx. # Troops *Mongols As many as 120,000 Hungarians More than 100,000 Importance The Mongols ravage…
The Mongol Turned Back?
The Mongol devastation of Hungary alerted western Europe to what might be in store for it: but suddenly Batu and his hordes were gone, the danger was over and Europe could breathe again. From that day to this the question of why they turned back has exercised historians. The most…
Il-Khanate (1256–1335/56)
Created as a result of MĂ–NGKE KHAN ’s 1252 decision to send his brother HĂśLE ’ Ăś (1217–65) to the Middle East, the resulting Il-Khanate dynasty suffered from hostility on three fronts and severe social conflicts. FORMATION OF THE DYNASTY Until 1252 the Mongols’ great khan, the Jochid GOLDEN HORDE…
Mongol Conquest of Korea
 The Jin made one last attempt to retrieve their situation in 1217, failed, and definitively abandoned the province. But Yelu Liuke’s pro-Mongol grip on the country was always shaky, with a majority of Khitans yearning for independence, and in the very same year a powerful anti-Mongol alliance under Han-she…