Definitions

1. Sarai, a caravan station where traders and travellers and their horses, camels, etc.
2. Sarai was made its capital.

Golden Horde Capital

1. The Golden Horde capital at Sarai became a prosperous center of commerce. (Web site)

Caffa

1. Sarai carried on a brisk trade with the Genoese trade emporiums on the Black Sea littoral - Soldaia, Caffa, and Azak. (Web site)

Black Sea

1. Sarai carried on a brisk trade with the Genoese trade emporiums on the coast of the Black Sea - Soldaia, Caffa, and Azak.

Bulgarians

1. Some Bulgarians, primarily masters and craftsmen, were forcibly moved to Sarai and other southern cities of the Golden Horde.

Volga

1. Many European players, including the papacy, had a financial interest in the friendship of Sarai on the Volga, a point often played down in the literature.

Pardon

1. In 1256 Andrey traveled to Sarai to ask pardon for his former infidelity and was shown mercy.

Battle

1. With the assistance of Sarai, the Grand duke Mikhail Yaroslavich won the battle against the party in Novgorod in 1316. (Web site)
2. Naresuan intended to execute all the soldiers in the battle of Nong Sarai who had provided no support to him and his brother. (Web site)

Mongol Army

1. Kalita raced to Sarai and returned with a Mongol army to sack and burn Tver (Hartog 82).

Crimean Khanate

1. Among them, the Khanate's shadow Great Horde survived till 1502 that one of its successors - Crimean Khanate sacked Sarai.

Horde

1. The holy prince journeyed a third time to Sarai, in order to confirm peaceful relations of Rus' and the Horde with the new Khan, Berke. (Web site)

Tokhtamysh

1. Shah Rukh of Herat expelled him back to Sarai, where he was assassinated by one of Tokhtamysh 's sons in 1419.

Khan

1. The Khan arrested the Italian residents of Sarai, and besieged Caffa in 1307.
2. Aleksander was shown mercy in 1335, however, when Moscow requested, he and his Feoder were quartered in Sarai by orders of the Khan on October 29, 1339.
3. Sarai Batu's importance stems from the fact that Rus princes had to obtain patents of authority (yarlyk) from the khan in Sarai.

Capital

1. The capital of the Golden Horde, Sarai is shown with a gold star. (Web site)
2. They went into the Caucasus to Sarai, capital of this part of the Mongol empire, near modern Astrakhan, Russia. (Web site)

Berke

1. Timur defeats Tokhtamysh, destroys the Golden Horde capital of Sarai Berke, and briefly occupies Moscow. (Web site)
2. Sarai Berke is shown with a gold star.
3. Most likely, this was a description of Sarai Berke.

Great Khan

1. In 1253, a capital was built at Sarai (in present-day Kazan) from which the Great Khan could administer his empire.

Astrakhan

1. Timur then destroyed Sarai and Astrakhan, and wrecked the Golden Horde's economy based on Silk Road trade. (Web site)

Batu

1. Mengli Ghirai, the khan of the Crimea who had destroyed the Golden Horde 's capital of Sarai Batu, brought significant destruction to the khanate.
2. Batu founded his capital, Sarai Batu, on the lower stretch of the Volga River. (Web site)
3. Sarai Berke had probably succeeded Sarai Batu as the capital of the Golden Horde by the mid-1300's.

Volga River

1. In 1242, Batu established his capital at Sarai, commanding the lower stretch of the Volga River. (Web site)
2. This was the westernmost successor of Genghis Khan�s Mongol empire, whose khan resided at Sarai on the Volga River.
3. In order to save his state, Danylo visited the Golden Horde leadership at Sarai on the Volga river and was forced to accept Mongol dominion. (Web site)

Lower Volga

1. After his return, Batu Khan established the capital of his khanate at Sarai on the lower Volga in 1242.
2. Batu Khan established the Golden Horde Khanate with its capital at Sarai, on lower Volga, under the suzerainty of Great Khan in Karakorum. (Web site)
3. Batu established his capital, Sarai, on the eastern bank of the lower Volga, near modern Volgograd. (Web site)

Golden Horde

1. Sarai, on the Volga River near modern Volgograd, was the capital of the empire of the Golden Horde. (Web site)
2. The new state was known as the Golden Horde, with its capital at Sarai, near the modern city of Astrakhan. (Web site)
3. Areas central to the Mongols (the capital of the Golden Horde, Sarai, would be a good example), might be built up by them.

Sarai

1. The Mongols held Russia and Volga Bulgaria in sway from their western capital at Sarai, one of the largest cities of the medieval world. (Web site)
2. Main article: Golden Horde The Mongols dominated Russia from their western capital at Sarai on the Volga River, near the modern city of Volgograd.
3. Batu built a capital, Sarai, on the Volga River, and he named his empire the Golden Horde.

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