Golden Horde

The Golden Horde (Mongolian: Алтан Орд, romanized: Altan

Ord; Kazakh: Алтын Орда, Altın Orda; Tatar: Алтын Урда, Golden Horde
Altın Urda) or Ulug Ulus - lit. “Great State” in Turkic[7] was Ulus of Jochi[a]
originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khaganate Зүчийн улс
established in the 13th century and originating as the
northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire.[8] With the 1242–1502[2]
fragmentation of the Mongol Empire after 1259 it became a
functionally separate khanate. It is also known as the Kipchak
Khanate or as the Ulus of Jochi.[9]

After the death of Batu Khan (the founder of the Golden

Horde) in 1255, his dynasty flourished for a full century, until Flag as shown in Dulcert’s 1339 map (other
1359, though the intrigues of Nogai instigated a partial civil sources claim that the Golden Horde was
war in the late 1290s. The Horde's military power peaked named for the yellow banner of the khan[3]).
during the reign of Uzbeg Khan (1312–1341), who adopted
Islam. The territory of the Golden Horde at its peak included
most of Eastern Europe from the Urals to the Danube River,
and extended east deep into Siberia. In the south, the Golden
Horde's lands bordered on the Black Sea, the Caucasus
Mountains, and the territories of the Mongol dynasty known
as the Ilkhanate.[9]

The khanate experienced violent internal political disorder

beginning in 1359, before it briefly reunited (1381–1395) Status Nomadic empire
under Tokhtamysh. However, soon after the 1396 invasion of Division of the
Timur, the founder of the Timurid Empire, the Golden Horde Mongol Empire
(until 1313/68)
broke into smaller Tatar khanates which declined steadily in
power. At the start of the 15th century, the Horde began to fall Capital Sarai Batu
apart. By 1466, it was being referred to simply as the "Great
Common languages
Horde". Within its territories there emerged numerous Mongolian[b][1]
predominantly Turkic-speaking khanates. These internal Turkic
struggles allowed the northern vassal state of Muscovy to rid (Kipchak)[c][1]
itself of the "Tatar Yoke" at the Great Stand on the Ugra River
in 1480. The Crimean Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate, the Religion Tengrism
last remnants of the Golden Horde, survived until 1783 and Shamanism
1847 respectively. Orthodox
Christianity
Tibetan
Buddhism (1240s–
Contents 1313)
Islam (1313–1502)
Name
Government Semi-elective
Mongol origins (1225–1241) monarchy, later
Golden Age hereditary
Batu Khan (1242–1256) monarchy

Berke (1258–1266) Khan

 Toluid Civil War (1260–1264) • 1226–1280 Orda Khan (White
Horde)
Berke–Hulagu war (1262–1266)
• 1242–1255 Batu Khan (Blue
Mengu-Timur (1266–1280) Horde)
Dual khanship (1281–1299) • 1379–1395 Tokhtamysh
General peace (1299–1312) • 1435–1459 Küchük
Muhammad
Islamization (Great Horde)
Öz Beg Khan (1313–1341) • 1481–1498, 1499– Shaykh Ahmad
1502
Jani Beg (1342–1357)
Legislature Kurultai
Decline
Great troubles (1359–1381) Historical era Late Middle Ages
Tokhtamysh (1381–1395) • Established after 1242
the Mongol
Edigu (1395–1419) invasion of Rus'
Disintegration • Blue Horde and 1379
White Horde
Khanate of Sibir (1405) united
Uzbek Khanate (1428) • Disintegrated into 1466
Nogai Horde (1440s) Great Horde
Khanate of Kazan (1445) • Great Stand on the 1480
Ugra River
Crimean Khanate (1449) • Last remnant 1502[2]
Qasim Khanate (1452) subjugated by the
Kazakh Khanate (1458) Crimean Khanate
Great Horde (1459–1502) Area
Astrakhan Khanate (1466) 1310[4][5] 6,000,000 km2
(2,300,000 sq mi)
Russian conquests
Currency Pul, Som,
Tributaries Dirham[6]
Eastern Europe
Preceded by Succeeded
Trade by
A change in trade routes
Mongol Kazakh
Geography and society Empire Khanate
Internal organization Cuman- Qasim
Kipchak Khanate
Provinces Confederation Khanate
Vassal territories Volga of Kazan
Bulgaria Astrakhan
Genetics
Khanate
Coinage Uzbek
Khanate
Gallery
Crimean
See also Khanate
Khanate
Reference and notes of Sibir
Bibliography Khanate
of Khiva
Further reading Timurid
External links Empire
Nogai
Khanate

Name
a. Their state came to be known in
The name Golden Horde, a partial calque of Russian Золотая historiography as the Golden Horde or
Орда (Zolotája Ordá), itself supposedly a partial calque of the ulus ("people" or "patrimony") of
Turkic Altan Orda, is said to have been inspired by the golden Djochi, while the contemporaries
color of the tents the Mongols lived in during wartime, or an simply referred to it as the Great
actual golden tent used by Batu Khan or by Uzbek Khan,[10] Horde (ulu orda).[1]
or to have been bestowed by the Slavic tributaries to describe b. Official language since the inception of
the great wealth of the khan. The Turkic word orda means the Golden Horde, used in chancery.
"palace", "camp" or "headquarters", in this case the c. Especially the western Kipchak
headquarters of the khan, being the capital of the khanate, dialects, this language spoken by the
metonymically extended to the khanate itself. It was not until majority of the inhabitants of the Black
the 16th century that Russian chroniclers begin explicitly Sea steppe who were non-Mongol
using the term "Golden Horde" to refer to this particular Turks, and those in the Khan's army.
successor khanate of the Mongol Empire. The first known use Shift from Mongol to Turkic occurred in
of the term, in 1565, in the Russian chronicle History of the 1350s, or earlier, also used in
chancery.
Kazan, applied it to the Ulus of Batu (Russian: Улуса Батыя),
centered on Sarai.[11][12] In contemporary Persian, Armenian
and Muslim writings, and in the records of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries such as the Yuanshi
and the Jami' al-tawarikh, the khanate was called the "Ulus of Jochi" ("realm of Jochi" in Mongolian),
"Dasht-i-Qifchaq" (Qipchaq Steppe) or "Khanate of the Qipchaq" and "Comania" (Cumania).[13][14]

The eastern or left wing (or "left hand" in official Mongolian-sponsored Persian sources) was referred to as
the Blue Horde in Russian chronicles and as the White Horde in Timurid sources (e.g. Zafar-Nameh).
Western scholars have tended to follow the Timurid sources' nomenclature and call the left wing the White
Horde. But Ötemish Hajji (fl. 1550), a historian of Khwarezm, called the left wing the Blue Horde, and
since he was familiar with the oral traditions of the khanate empire, it seems likely that the Russian
chroniclers were correct, and that the khanate itself called its left wing the Blue Horde.[15] The khanate
apparently used the term White Horde to refer to its right wing, which was situated in Batu's home base in
Sarai and controlled the ulus. However, the designations Golden Horde, Blue Horde, and White Horde have
not been encountered in the sources of the Mongol period.[16]

Mongol origins (1225–1241)

At his death in 1227, Genghis Khan divided the Mongol Empire amongst his four sons as appanages, but the
Empire remained united under the supreme khan. Jochi was the eldest, but he died six months before
Genghis. The westernmost lands occupied by the Mongols, which included what is today southern Russia
and Kazakhstan, were given to Jochi's eldest sons, Batu Khan, who eventually became ruler of the Blue
Horde, and Orda Khan, who became the leader of the White Horde.[17][18] In 1235, Batu with the great
general Subutai began an invasion westwards, first conquering the Bashkirs and then moving on to Volga
Bulgaria in 1236. From there he conquered some of the southern steppes of present-day Ukraine in 1237,
forcing many of the local Cumans to retreat westward. The Mongol campaign against the Kypchaks and
Cumans had already started under Jochi and Subutai in 1216–1218 when the Merkits took shelter among
them. By 1239 a large portion of Cumans were driven out of the Crimean peninsula, and it became one of
the appanages of the Mongol Empire.[19] The remnants of the Crimean Cumans survived in the Crimean
mountains, and they would, in time, mix with other groups in the Crimea (including Greeks, Goths, and
Mongols) to form the Crimean Tatar population. Moving north, Batu began the Mongol invasion of Rus' and
spent three years subjugating the principalities of former Kievan Rus', whilst his cousins Möngke, Kadan,
and Güyük moved southwards into Alania.

Using the migration of the Cumans as their casus belli, the Mongols continued west, raiding Poland and
Hungary, which culminated in Mongol victories at the battles of Legnica and Mohi. In 1241, however,
Ögedei Khan died in the Mongolian homeland. Batu turned back from his siege of Vienna but did not return
to Mongolia, rather opting to stay at the Volga River. His brother Orda returned to take part in the
 succession. The Mongol armies would never again travel so far west.
In 1242, after retreating through Hungary, destroying Pest in the
process, and subjugating Bulgaria,[20] Batu established his capital at
Sarai, commanding the lower stretch of the Volga River, on the site
of the Khazar capital of Atil. Shortly before that, the younger brother
of Batu and Orda, Shiban, was given his own enormous ulus east of
the Ural Mountains along the Ob and Irtysh Rivers.

While the Mongolian language was undoubtedly in general use at

Decisive Golden Horde victory in the the court of Batu, few Mongol texts written in the territory of the
Battle of Mohi Golden Horde have survived, perhaps because of the prevalent
general illiteracy. According to Grigor'ev, yarliq, or decrees of the
Khans, were written in Mongol, then translated into the Cuman
language. The existence of Arabic-Mongol and Persian-Mongol dictionaries dating from the middle of the
14th century and prepared for the use of the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate suggests that there was a practical
need for such works in the chancelleries handling correspondence with the Golden Horde. It is thus
reasonable to conclude that letters received by the Mamluks – if not also written by them – must have been
in Mongol.[20]

Golden Age

Batu Khan (1242–1256)

When the Great Khatun Töregene invited Batu to elect the next
Emperor of the Mongol Empire in 1242, he declined to attend the
kurultai and instead stayed at the Volga River. Although Batu
excused himself by saying he was suffering from old age and illness,
it seems that he did not support the election of Güyük Khan. Güyük
and Büri, a grandson of Chagatai Khan, had quarreled violently with
Batu at a victory banquet during the Mongol occupation of Eastern Batu Khan establishes the Golden
Europe. He sent his brothers to the kurultai, and the new Khagan of Horde.
the Mongols was elected in 1246.

All the senior Rus' princes, including Yaroslav II of Vladimir, Daniel of Galicia, and Sviatoslav III of
Vladimir, acknowledged Batu's supremacy. Originally Batu ordered Daniel to turn the administration of
Galicia over to the Mongols, but Daniel personally visited Batu in 1245 and pledged allegiance to him. After
returning from his trip, Daniel was visibly influenced by the Mongols, and equipped his army in the Mongol
fashion. Austrian visitors to his camp remarked that all of Daniel's horsemen dressed like Mongols. The only
one who did not was Daniel himself, who dressed according to "the Russian custom."[21] Michael of
Chernigov, who had killed a Mongol envoy in 1240, refused to show obeisance and was executed in
1246.[22]

When Güyük called Batu to pay him homage several times, Batu sent Yaroslav II, Andrey II of Vladimir and
Alexander Nevsky to Karakorum in Mongolia in 1247. Yaroslav II never returned and died in Mongolia. He
was probably poisoned by Töregene Khatun, who probably did it to spite Batu and even her own son Güyük,
because he did not approve of her regency.[23] Güyük appointed Andrey Grand prince of Vladimir-Suzdal
and Alexander prince of Kiev. However when they returned, Andrey went to Vladimir while Alexander
went to Novgorod instead. A bishop by the name of Cyril went to Kiev and found it so devastated that he
abandoned the place and went further east instead.[24][25]
In 1248, Güyük demanded Batu come eastward to meet him, a move
that some contemporaries regarded as a pretext for Batu's arrest. In
compliance with the order, Batu approached, bringing a large army.
When Güyük moved westwards, Tolui's widow and a sister of Batu's
stepmother Sorghaghtani warned Batu that the Jochids might be his
target. Güyük died on the way, in what is now Xinjiang, at about the
age of 42. Although some modern historians believe that he died of
natural causes because of deteriorating health,[26] he may have
succumbed to the combined effects of alcoholism and gout, or he
may have been poisoned. William of Rubruck and a Muslim
chronicler state that Batu killed the imperial envoy, and one of his
brothers murdered the Great Khan Güyük, but these claims are not
completely corroborated by other major sources. Güyük's widow
Oghul Qaimish took over as regent, but she would be unable to keep
the succession within her branch of the family.

With the assistance of Batu, Möngke succeeded as Great Khan in

1251. Utilizing the discovery of a plot designed to remove him,
Möngke as the new Great Khan began a purge of his opponents.
Estimates of the deaths of aristocrats, officials, and Mongol
commanders range from 77 to 300. Batu became the most influential
person in the Mongol Empire as his friendship with Möngke ensured 14th-century Chinese drawing of
young Batu Khan
the unity of the realm. Batu, Möngke, and other princely lines shared
rule over the area from Afghanistan to Turkey. Batu allowed
Möngke's census takers to operate freely in his realm. In 1252–1259,
Möngke conducted a census of the Mongol Empire, including Iran,
Afghanistan, Georgia, Armenia, Rus', Central Asia, and North
China. While the census in China was completed in 1252, Novgorod
in the far northwest was not counted until winter 1258–59.[27]

With the new powers afforded to Batu by Möngke, he now had

direct control over the Rus' princes. However the Grand Prince
Andrey II refused to submit to Batu. Batu sent a punitive expedition
under Nevruy, who defeated Andrey and forced him to flee to Jochi Mausoleum, Karagandy
Novgorod, then Pskov, and finally to Sweden. The Mongols overran Region
Vladimir and harshly punished the principality. The Livonian
Knights stopped their advance to Novgorod and Pskov. Thanks to
his friendship with Sartaq Khan, Batu's son, who was a Christian, Alexander was installed as the Grand
Prince of Vladimir (i.e., the supreme Russian ruler) by Batu in 1252.[28]

Berke (1258–1266)

After Batu died in 1256, his son Sartaq Khan was appointed by Möngke Khan. As soon as he returned from
the court of the Great Khan in Mongolia, Sartaq died. The infant Ulaghchi succeeded him under the regency
of Boragchin Khatun. The khatun summoned all the Rus' princes to Sarai to renew their patents. In 1256
Andrey traveled to Sarai to ask for pardon. He was once again reappointed as prince of Vladimir-Suzdal.[29]

Ulaghchi died soon after and Batu Khan's younger brother Berke, who had been converted to Islam, was
enthroned as khan of the Golden Horde in 1258.[30]
In 1256, Daniel of Galicia openly defied the Mongols and ousted their troops in northern Podolia. In 1257,
he repelled Mongol assaults led by the prince Kuremsa on Ponyzia and Volhynia and dispatched an
expedition with the aim of taking Kiev. Despite initial successes, in 1259 a Mongol force under Boroldai
entered Galicia and Volhynia and offered an ultimatum: Daniel was to destroy his fortifications or Boroldai
would assault the towns. Daniel complied and pulled down the city walls. In 1259 Berke launched savage
attacks on Lithuania and Poland, and demanded the submission of Béla IV, the Hungarian monarch, and the
French King Louis IX in 1259 and 1260.[31] His assault on Prussia in 1259/60 inflicted heavy losses on the
Teutonic Order.[32] The Lithuanians were probably tributary in the 1260s, when reports reached the Curia
that they were in league with the Mongols.[33]

Mongol agents began taken censuses in the Rus' principalities. Novgorod in the far northwest was not
counted until winter 1258–59. There was an uprising in Novgorod against the Mongol census, but
Alexander Nevsky forced the city to submit to the census and taxation.[27]

In 1261, Berke approved the establishment of a church in Sarai.[34]

Toluid Civil War (1260–1264)

After Möngke Khan died in 1259, the Toluid Civil War broke out between Kublai Khan and Ariq Böke.
While Hulagu Khan of the Ilkhanate supported Kublai, Berke sided with Ariq Böke.[35] There is evidence
that Berke minted coins in Ariq Böke's name,[36] but he remained militarily netural. After the defeat of Ariq
Böke in 1264, he freely acceded to Kublai's enthronement.[37] However, some elites of the White Horde
joined Ariq Böke's resistance.

Berke–Hulagu war (1262–1266)

Möngke ordered the Jochid and Chagatayid families to join Hulagu's

expedition to Iran. Berke's persuasion might have forced his brother
Batu to postpone Hulagu's operation, little suspecting that it would
result in eliminating the Jochid predominance there for several years.
During the reign of Batu or his first two successors, the Golden
Horde dispatched a large Jochid delegation to participate in Hulagu's
expedition in the Middle East in 1256/57.
The Golden Horde army defeats the
One of the Jochid princes who joined Hulagu's army was accused of Ilkhanate at the battle of Terek in
witchcraft and sorcery against Hulagu. After receiving permission 1262. Many of Hulagu's men
from Berke, Hulagu executed him. After that two more Jochid drowned in the Terek River while
princes died suspiciously. According to some Muslim sources, withdrawing.
Hulagu refused to share his war booty with Berke in accordance
with Genghis Khan's wish. Berke was a devoted Muslim who had
had a close relationship with the Abbasid Caliph Al-Musta'sim, who had been killed by Hulagu in 1258. The
Jochids believed that Hulagu's state eliminated their presence in the Transcaucasus.[38] Those events
increased the anger of Berke and the war between the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate soon broke out in
1262.

The increasing tension between Berke and Hulagu was a warning to the Golden Horde contingents in
Hulagu's army that they had better escape. One contingent reached the Kipchak Steppe, another traversed
Khorasan, and a third body took refuge in Mamluk ruled Syria where they were well received by Sultan
Baybars (1260–1277). Hulagu harshly punished the rest of the Golden Horde army in Iran. Berke sought a
joint attack with Baybars and forged an alliance with the Mamluks against Hulagu. The Golden Horde
dispatched the young prince Nogai to invade the Ilkhanate but Hulagu forced him back in 1262. The
Ilkhanid army then crossed the Terek River, capturing an empty Jochid encampment, only to be routed in a
surprise attack by Nogai's forces. Many of them were drowned as the ice broke on the frozen Terek River.
The outbreak of conflict was made more annoying to Berke by the rebellion of Suzdal at the same time,
killing Mongol darughachis and tax-collectors. Berke planned a severe punitive expedition. But after
Alexander Nevsky begged Berke not to punish the Rus' and the Vladimir-Suzdal cities agreed to pay a large
indemnity, Berke relented. Alexander died on his trip back and died in Gorodets on the Volga. He was well
loved by the people and called the "sun of Russia".[39][40]

When the former Seljuk Sultan Kaykaus II was arrested in the Byzantine Empire, his younger brother
Kayqubad II appealed to Berke. An Egyptian envoy was also detained there. With the assistance of the
Kingdom of Bulgaria (Berke's vassal), Nogai invaded the Empire in 1264. By the next year, the Mongol-
Bulgarian army was within reach of Constantinople. Nogai forced Michael VIII Palaiologos to release
Kaykaus and pay tribute to the Horde. Berke gave Kaykaus Crimea as an appanage and had him marry a
Mongol woman. Hulagu died in February 1265 and Berke followed the next year while on campaign in
Tiflis, causing his troops to retreat.[41]

Ariq Böke had earlier placed Chagatai's grandson Alghu as Chagatayid Khan, ruling Central Asia. He took
control of Samarkand and Bukhara. When the Muslim elites and the Jochid retainers in Bukhara declared
their loyalty to Berke, Alghu smashed the Golden Horde appanages in Khorazm. Alghu insisted Hulagu
attack the Golden Horde; he accused Berke of purging his family in 1252. In Bukhara, he and Hulagu
slaughtered all the retainers of the Golden Horde and reduced their families into slavery, sparing only the
Great Khan Kublai's men.[42] After Berke gave his allegiance to Kublai, Alghu declared war on Berke,
seizing Otrar and Khorazm. While the left bank of Khorazm would eventually be retaken, Berke had lost
control over Transoxiana. In 1264 Berke marched past Tiflis to fight against Hulagu's successor Abaqa, but
he died en route.

Mengu-Timur (1266–1280)

Berke left no sons, so Batu's grandson Mengu-Timur was nominated by Kublai and succeeded his uncle
Berke.[43] However, Mengu-Timur secretly supported the Ögedeid prince Kaidu against Kublai and the
Ilkhanate. After the defeat of Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq, a peace treaty was concluded in 1267 granting one-third
of Transoxiana to Kaidu and Mengu-Timur.[44] In 1268, when a group of princes operating in Central Asia
on Kublai's behalf mutinied and arrested two sons of the Qaghan (Great Khan), they sent them to Mengu-
Timur. One of them, Nomoghan, favorite of Kublai, was located in the Crimea.[45] Mengu-Timur might
have struggled with Hulagu's successor Abagha for a brief period of time, but the Great Khan Kublai forced
them to sign a peace treaty.[46] He was allowed to take his share in Persia. Independently from the Khan,
Nogai expressed his desire to ally with Baibars in 1271. Despite the fact that he was proposing a joint attack
on the Ilkhanate with the Mamluks of Egypt, Mengu-Timur congratulated Abagha when Baraq was defeated
by the Ilkhan in 1270.[47]

In 1267, Mengu-Timur issued a diploma – jarliq – to exempt Rus' clergy from any taxation and gave to the
Genoese and Venice exclusive trading rights in Caffa and Azov. Some of Mengu-Timur's relatives converted
to Christianity at the same time and settled among the Rus' people. One of them was a prince who settled in
Rostov and became known as Tsarevich Peter of the Horde (Peter Ordynsky). Even though Nogai invaded
the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire in 1271, the Khan sent his envoys to maintain friendly
relationship with Michael VIII Palaiologos, who sued for peace and married one of his daughters,
Euphrosyne Palaiologina, to Nogai. Mengu-Timur ordered the Grand prince of Rus to allow German
merchants free travel through his lands. This gramota says:
 Mengu-Timur's word to Prince Yaroslav: give the German merchants way into your lands.
From Prince Yaroslav to the people of Riga, to the great and the young, and to all: your way is
clear through my lands; and who comes to fight, with them I do as I know; but for the merchant
the way is clear.[48]

This decree also allowed Novgorod's merchants to travel throughout the Suzdal lands without restraint.[49]
Mengu Timur honored his vow: when the Danes and the Livonian Knights attacked Novgorod Republic in
1269, the Khan's great basqaq (darughachi), Amraghan, and many Mongols assisted the Rus' army
assembled by the Grand duke Yaroslav. The Germans and the Danes were so cowed that they sent gifts to
the Mongols and abandoned the region of Narva.[50] The Mongol Khan's authority extended to all Rus'
principalities, and in 1274–75 the census took place in all Rus' cities, including Smolensk and Vitebsk.[51]

In 1277, Mengu-Timur launched a campaign against the Alans north of the Caucasus. Along with the
Mongol army were also Rus', who took the fortified stronghold of the Alans, Dadakov, in 1278.[52]

Dual khanship (1281–1299)

Mengu-Timur was
succeeded in 1281 by his
brother Töde Möngke, who
was a Muslim. However
Nogai Khan was now strong
enough to establish himself
as an independent ruler. The
Golden Horde was thus ruled
Regions in the lower Volga inhabited by two khans.[53]
by the descendants of Nogai Khan
Töde Möngke made peace
with Kublai, returned his
sons to him, and acknowledged his supremacy.[54][55] Nogai and
Köchü, Khan of the White Horde and son of Orda Khan, also made
peace with the Yuan dynasty and the Ilkhanate. According to
Mamluk historians, Töde Möngke sent the Mamluks a letter
proposing to fight against their common enemy, the unbelieving
Ilkhanate. This indicates that he might have had an interest in
Tode Mongke Khan of the Golden
Azerbaijan and Georgia, which were both ruled by the Ilkhans.
Horde
In the 1270s Nogai had savagely raided Bulgaria[56] and
Lithuania.[57] He blockaded Michael Asen II inside Drăstăr in 1279,
executed the rebel emperor Ivailo in 1280, and forced George Terter I to seek refuge in the Byzantine
Empire in 1292. In 1284 Saqchi came under the Mongol rule during the major invasion of Bulgaria, and
coins were struck in the Khan's name.[58] Smilets was installed by Nogai as emperor of Bulgaria.
Accordingly, the reign of Smilets has been considered the height of Mongol overlordship in Bulgaria. When
he was expelled by a local boyars c. 1295, the Mongols launched another invasion to protect their protege.
Nogai compelled Serbian king Stefan Milutin to accept Mongol supremacy and received his son, Stefan
Dečanski, as hostage in 1287. Under his rule, the Vlachs, Slavs, Alans, and Turco-Mongols lived in modern-
day Moldavia.

At the same time, the influence of Nogai greatly increased in the Golden Horde. Backed by him, some Rus'
princes, such as Dmitry of Pereslavl, refused to visit the court of the Töde Möngke in Sarai, while Dmitry's
brother Andrey of Gorodets sought assistance from Töde Möngke. Nogai vowed to support Dmitry in his
struggle for the grand ducal throne. On hearing about this, Andrey
renounced his claims to Vladimir and Novgorod and returned to
Gorodets. He returned with Mongol troops sent by Töde Möngke
and seized Vladimir from Dmitry. Dmitry retaliated with the support
of Mongol troops from Nogai and retook his holdings. In 1285
Andrey again led a Mongol army under a Borjigin prince to
Vladimir, but Dmitry expelled them.[59]

In 1283, Mengu-Timur converted to Islam and abandoned state

affairs. Rumors spread that the khan was mentally ill and only cared
for clerics and sheikhs. In 1285, Talabuga and Nogai invaded
Hungary. While Nogai was successful in subduing Slovakia,
Talabuga got stuck north of the Carpathian Mountains. Talabuga's The Jochid vassal princes of Galicia-
soldiers got angry and sacked Galicia and Volynia instead. In 1286, Volhynia contributed troops for
Talabuga and Nogai attacked Poland and ravaged the country. After invasions of Europe by Nogai Khan
returning, Talabuga overthrew Töde Möngke, who was left to live in and Talabuga.
peace. Talabuga's army made unsuccessful attempts to invade the
Ilkhanate in 1288 and 1290.[60]

During a punitive expedition against the Circassians, Talabuga's became resentful of Nogai, who he believed
did not provide him with adequate support during the invasions of Hungary and Poland. Talabuga
challenged Nogai, but was defeated in a coup and replaced with Toqta in 1291.[61]

Some of the Rus' princes complained to Toqta about Dmitry. Mikhail Yaroslavich was summoned to appear
before Nogai in Sarai, and Daniel of Moscow declined to come. In 1293 Toqta sent a punitive expedition led
by his brother, Dyuden to Rus' and Belarus to punish those stubborn subjects. The latter sacked fourteen
major cities, finally forcing Dmitry to abdicate. Nogai was annoyed by this independent action and sent his
wife to Toqta in 1293 to remind him who was in charge. In the same year, Nogai sent an army to Serbia and
forced the king to acknowledge himself as a vassal.[62]

Nogai's daughter married a son of Kublai's niece, Kelmish, who was wife of a Qongirat general of the
Golden Horde. Nogai was angry with Kelmish's family because her Buddhist son despised his Muslim
daughter. For this reason, he demanded Toqta send Kelmish's husband to him. Nogai's independent actions
related to Rus' princes and foreign merchants had already annoyed Toqta. Toqta thus refused and declared
war on Nogai. Toqta was defeated in their first battle. Nogai's army turned their attention to Caffa and
Soldaia, looting both cities.. Within two years, Toqta returned and killed Nogai in 1299 at the Kagamlik,
near the Dnieper. Toqta had his son stationed troops in Saqchi and along the Danube as far as the Iron
Gate.[63] Nogai's son Chaka of Bulgaria, first escaped to the Alans, and then Bulgaria where he briefly ruled
as emperor before he was murdered by Theodore Svetoslav on the orders of Toqta.[64]

After Mengu-Timur died, rulers of the Golden Horde withdrew their support from Kaidu, the head of the
House of Ögedei. Kaidu tried to restore his influence in the Golden Horde by sponsoring his own candidate
Kobeleg against Bayan (r. 1299–1304), Khan of the White Horde.[65] After taking military support from
Toqta, Bayan asked help from the Yuan dynasty and the Ilkhanate to organize a unified attack on the
Chagatai Khanate under the leadership of Kaidu and his number two Duwa. However, the Yuan court was
unable to send quick military support.[66]

General peace (1299–1312)

From 1300 to 1303 a severe drought occurred in the areas surrounding the Black Sea. However the troubles
were soon overcome and conditions in the Golden Horde rapidly improved under Toqta's reign. After the
defeat of Nogai Khan, his followers either fled to Podolia or remained under the service of Toqta, to become
 what would eventually
be known as the Nogai
Horde. [68]

The division of the Mongol Empire, c.

1300, with the Golden Horde in yellow

Toqta established the Byzantine-Mongol alliance by Maria, an

illegitimate daughter of Andronikos II Palaiologos.[69] A report The Bulgarian Empire was still
reached Western Europe that Toqta was highly favourable to the tributary to the Mongols in 1308.[67]
Christians.[70] According to Muslim observers, however, Toqta
remained an idol-worshiper (Buddhism and Tengerism) and showed
favour to religious men of all faiths, though he preferred Muslims.[71]

He demanded that the Ilkhan Ghazan and his successor Oljeitu give Azerbaijan back but was refused. Then
he sought assistance from Egypt against the Ilkhanate. Toqta made his man ruler in Ghazna, but he was
expelled by its people. Toqta dispatched a peace mission to the Ilkhan Gaykhatu in 1294, and peace was
maintained mostly uninterrupted until 1318.[72]

In 1304 ambassadors from the Mongol rulers of Central Asia and the Yuan announced to Toqta their general
peace proposal. Toqta immediately accepted the supremacy of Yuan emperor Temür Öljeytü, and all yams
(postal relays) and commercial networks across the Mongol khanates reopened. Toqta introduced the general
peace among the Mongol khanates to Rus' princes at the assembly in Pereyaslavl.[73] The Yuan influence
seemed to have increased in the Golden Horde as some of Toqta's coins carried 'Phags-pa script in addition
to Mongolian script and Persian characters.[74]

Toqta arrested the Italian residents of Sarai and besieged Caffa in 1307. The cause was apparently Toqta's
displeasure at the Genoese slave trade of his subjects, who were mostly sold as soldiers to Egypt.[75] In
1308, Caffa was plundered by the Mongols.[76]

During the late reign of Toqta, tensions between princes of Tver and Moscow became violent. Daniel of
Moscow seized the town of Kolomna from the Principality of Ryazan, which turned to Toqta for protection.
However Daniel was able to beat both Ryazan and Mongol troops in 1301. His successor Yury of Moscow
also seized Pereslavl-Zalessky. Toqta considered eliminating the special status of the Grand principality of
Vladimir, and placing all the Rus' princes on the same level. Toqta decided to personally visit northern Rus'
to settle the conflict between the princes, but he fell ill and died while crossing the Volga in 1313.[77]

Islamization

Öz Beg Khan (1313–1341)

After Öz Beg Khan assumed the throne in 1313, he adopted Islam as the state religion. He built a large
mosque in the city of Solkhat in the Crimea in 1314 and proscribed Buddhism and Shamanism among the
Mongols in the Golden Horde. By 1315, Öz Beg had successfully Islamicized the Horde and killed Jochid
princes and Buddhist lamas who opposed his religious policy.[78] Under the reign of Öz Beg, trade caravans
went unmolested and there was general order in the Golden Horde. When Ibn Battuta visited Sarai in 1333,
 he found it to be a large
and beautiful city with
vast streets and fine
markets where
Mongols, Alans,
Kypchaks, Circassians,
Rus', and Greeks each
had their own quarters.
Merchants had a special
walled section of the
city all to Territories of the Golden Horde under Öz
[79] Beg Khan.
themselves.

Öz Beg continued the alliance with the Mamluks begun by Berke

Dmitri avenging the death of his
father in the ordo (palace) of Uzbeg
Khan, killing Yury.
and his predecessors. He kept a friendly relationship with the
Mamluk Sultan and his shadow Caliph in Cairo. In 1320, the Jochid
princess Tulunbay was married Al-Nasir Muhammad, Sultan of
Egypt. She died soon after.[80]

The Golden Horde invaded the Ilkhanate under Abu Sa'id in 1318, 1324, and 1335. Öz Beg's ally Al-Nasir
refused to attack Abu Sa'id because the Ilkhan and the Mamluk Sultan signed a peace treaty in 1323. In 1326
Uzbeg reopened friendly relations with the Yuan dynasty and began to send tributes thereafter.[81] From
1339 he received annually 24,000 ding in Yuan paper currency from the Jochid appanages in China.[82]
When the Ilkhanate collapsed after Abu Sa'id's death, its senior-beys approached Öz Beg in their desperation
to find a leader, but the latter declined after consulting with his senior emir, Qutluq Timür.

Öz Beg, whose total army exceeded 300,000, repeatedly raided Thrace in aid of Bulgaria's war against
Byzantium and Serbia beginning in 1319. The Byzantine Empire under Andronikos II Palaiologos and
Andronikos III Palaiologos was raided by the Golden Horde between 1320 and 1341, until the Byzantine
port of Vicina Macaria was occupied. Friendly relations were established with the Byzantine Empire for a
brief period after Öz Beg married Andronikos III Palaiologos's illegitimate daughter, who came to be known
Bayalun. In 1333, she was given permission to visit her father in Constantinople and never returned,
apparently fearing her forced conversion to Islam.[83][84] Öz Beg's armies pillaged Thrace for 40 days in
1324 and for 15 days in 1337, taking 300,000 captives. In 1330, Öz Beg sent 15,000 troops to Serbia in
1330 but was defeated.[85] Backed by Öz Beg, Basarab I of Wallachia declared an independent state from
the Hungarian crown in 1330.[67]

With Öz Beg's assistance, the Grand duke Mikhail Yaroslavich won the battle against the party in Novgorod
in 1316. While Mikhail was asserting his authority, his rival Yury of Moscow ingratiated himself with Öz
Beg so that he appointed him chief of the Rus' princes and gave him his sister, Konchak, in marriage. After
spending three years at Uzbeg's court, Yury returned with an army of Mongols and Mordvins. After he
ravaged the villages of Tver, Yury was defeated by Mikhail in December 1318, and his new wife and the
Mongol general, Kawgady, were captured. While she stayed in Tver, Konchak, who converted to
Christianity and adopted the name Agatha, died. Mikhail's rivals suggested to Öz Beg that he had poisoned
the Khan's sister and revolted against his rule. Mikhail was summoned to Sarai and executed on November
22, 1318.[86][87] Yuri became grand duke once more. Yuri's brother Ivan accompanied the Mongol general
Akhmyl in suppressing a revolt by Rostov in 1320. In 1322, Mikhail's son, Dmitry, seeking revenge for his
father's murder, went to Sarai and persuaded the Khan that Yury had appropriated a large portion of the
tribute due to the Horde. Yury was summoned to the Horde for a trial, but he was killed by Dmitry before
any formal investigation. Eight months later, Dmitry was also executed by the Horde for his crime. The title
of grand duke went to Aleksandr Mikhailovich.[88]
In 1327, the baskak Shevkal, cousin of Öz Beg, arrived in Tver from the Horde, with a large retinue. They
took up residence at Aleksander's palace. Rumors spread that Shevkal wanted to occupy the throne for
himself and introduce Islam to the city. When, on 15 August 1327, the Mongols tried to take a horse from a
deacon named Dyudko, he cried for help and a mob killed the Mongols. Shevkal and his remaining guards
were burnt alive. The incident in Tver caused Öz Beg to begin backing Moscow as the leading Rus' state.
Ivan I Kalita was granted the title of grand prince and given the right to collect taxes from other Rus'
potentates. Öz Beg also sent Ivan at the head of an army of 50,000 soldiers to punish Tver. Aleksander was
shown mercy in 1335, however, when Moscow requested that he and his son Feoder be quartered in Sarai by
orders of the Khan on October 29, 1339.[89]

In 1323 Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania gained control of Kiev and installed his brother Fedor as
prince, but the principality's tribute to the Khan continued. On a campaign a few years later, the Lithuanians
under Fedor included the Khan's baskak in their entourage.[90]

A decree, issued probably by Mengu-Timur, allowing the Franciscans to proselytize, was renewed by Uzbeg
in 1314. Öz Beg allowed the Christian Genoese to settle in Crimea after his accession, but the Mongols
sacked their outpost Sudak in 1322 when the Genoese clashed with the Turks.[91] The Genoese merchants in
the other towns were not molested. Pope John XXII requested Öz Beg to restore Roman Catholic churches
destroyed in the region. Öz Beg signed a new trade treaty with the Genoese in 1339 and allowed them to
rebuild the walls of Caffa. In 1332 he had allowed the Venetians to establish a colony at Tanais on the Don.
In 1333, when Ibn Battuta visited Sudak, he found the population to be predominantly Turkish.[80]

Jani Beg (1342–1357)

Öz Beg's eldest son Tini Beg reigned briefly from 1341-42 before his younger brother, Jani Beg (1342–
1357), came to power.[92]

In 1344, Jani Beg tried to seize Caffa from the Genoese but failed. In 1347, he signed a commercial treaty
with Venice. The slave trade flourished due to strengthening ties with the Mamluk Sultanate. Growth of
wealth and increasing demand for products typically produce population growth, and so it was with Sarai.
Housing in the region increased, which transformed the capital into the center of a large Muslim
Sultanate.[92]

The Black Death of the 1340s was a major factor contributing to the economic downfall of the Golden
Horde. It struck the Crimea in 1345 and killed over 85,000 people.[93]

Jani Beg abandoned his father's Balkan ambitions and backed Moscow against Lithuania and Poland. Jani
Beg sponsored joint Mongol-Rus' military expeditions against Lithuania and Poland. In 1344 his army
marched against Poland with auxiliaries from Galicia–Volhynia, as Volhynia was part of Lithuania. In 1349,
however, Galicia–Volhynia was occupied by a Polish-Hungarian force, and the Kingdom of Galicia–
Volhynia was finally conquered and incorporated into Poland. This act put an end to the relationship of
vassalage between the Galicia–Volhynia Rus' and the Golden Horde.[94] In 1352, a Mongol-Russian army
ravaged Polish territory and Lublin. The Polish King, Casimir III the Great, submitted to the Horde in 1357
and paid tribute in order to avoid more conflicts. The seven Mongol princes were sent by Jani Beg to assist
Poland.[95]

He also asserted Jochid dominance over the Chagatai Khanate and conquered Tabriz, ending Chobanid rule
there in 1356. After accepting the surrender of the Jalayirids, Janibeg boasted that three uluses of the
Mongol Empire were under his control. However on his way back from Tabriz, Jani Beg was murdered on
the order of his own son, Berdi Beg. Following the assassination of Jani Beg, the Golden Horde quickly lost
Azerbaijan to the Jalayir king Shaikh Uvais in 1357.[96]
Decline

Great troubles (1359–1381)

Berdi Beg was killed in a coup by his brother Qulpa in 1359.

Qulpa's two sons were Christians and bore the Russian names,
Michael and Ivan, which outraged the Muslim populace of the
Golden Horde. In 1360, Qulpa's brother Nawruz Beg revolted
against the khan and killed him and his sons. In 1361, a
descendant of Shiban (5th son of Jochi), was invited by some
grandees to seize the throne. Khidr rebelled against Nawruz,
whose own lieutenant betrayed him and handed him over to be
executed. Khidr was slain by his own son, Timur Khwaja, in the The Battle of Kulikovo in 1380
same year. Timur Khwaja reigned for only five weeks before
descendants of Öz Beg Khan seized power.[97]

In 1362, the Golden Horde was divided between Keldi Beg in Sarai, Bulat Temir in Volga Bulgaria, and
Abdullah in Crimea. Meanwhile, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania attacked the western tributaries of the
Golden Horde and conquered Kiev and Podolia after the Battle of Blue Waters in 1363.[39] A powerful
Mongol general by the name of Mamai backed Abdullah but failed to take Sarai, which saw the reign of two
more khans, Murad and Aziz. Abdullah died in 1370 and Muhammad Bolaq was enthroned as puppet khan
by Mamai.[97] Mamai also had to deal with a rebellion in Nizhny Novgorod. Muscovite troops impinged on
the Bulgar territory of Arab-Shah, the son of Bulat Temir, who caught them off guard and defeated them on
the banks of the Pyana River. However Arab-Shah was unable to take advantage of the situation because of
the advance of another Mongol general from the east.[98] Encouraged by the news of Muscovite defeat,
Mamai sent an army against Dmitri Donskoy, who defeated the Mongol forces at the Battle of the Vozha
River in 1378. Mamai hired Genoese, Circassian, and Alan mercenaries for another attack on Muscow in
1380. In the ensuing battle, Mongol forces once again lost at the Battle of Kulikovo.[98]

By 1360, Urus Khan had set up court in Sighnaq. He was named Urus, which means Russian in Turkish
language, because his mother was apparently a Rus' princess. In 1372, Urus marched west and occupied
Sarai. His nephew and lieutenant Tokhtamysh deserted him and went to Timur for assistance. Tokhtamysh
attacked Urus, killing his son Kutlug-Buka, but lost the battle and fled to Samarkand. Soon after, another
general Edigu deserted Urus and went over to Timur. Timur personally attacked Urus in 1376 but the
campaign ended indecisively. Urus died the next year and was succeeded by his son, Timur-Melik, who
immediately lost Sighnaq to Tokhtamysh. In 1378, Tokhtamysh conquered Sarai.[99]

By the 1380s, the Shaybanids and Qashan attempted to break free of the Khan's power.

Tokhtamysh (1381–1395)

Tokhtamysh attacked Mamai, who had recently suffered a loss against Muscovy, and defeated him in 1381,
thus briefly reestablishing the Golden Horde as a dominant regional power. Mamai fled to the Genoese who
killed him soon after. Tokhtamysh sent an envoy to the Rus' states to resume their tributary status, but the
envoy only made it as far as Nizhny Novgorod before he was stopped. Tokhtamysh immediately seized all
the boats on the Volga to ferry his army across and commenced the Siege of Moscow (1382), which fell
after three days under a false truce. The next year most of the Rus' princes once again made obeisance to the
khan and received patents from him.[100] Tokhtamysh also crushed the Lithuanian army at Poltava in the
next year.[101] Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, accepted his supremacy
and agreed to pay tribute in turn for a grant of Rus' territory.[102]
Elated by his success, Tokhtamysh invaded Azerbaijan in 1386 and
seized Tabriz. He ordered money with his name on it coined in
Khwarezm and sent envoys to Egypt to seek an alliance. In 1387,
Timur sent an army into Azerbaijan and fought indecisively with the
forces of the Golden Horde. Tokhtamysh invaded Transoxania and
reached as far as Bukhara, but failed to take the city, and had to turn
back. Timur retaliated by invading Khwarezm and destroyed
Urgench. Tokhtamysh attacked Timur on the Syr Darya in 1389 with
a massive army including Russians, Bulgars, Circassians, and Alans.
The battle ended indecisively. In 1391, Timur gathered an army
200,000 strong and defeated Tokhtamysh at the Battle of the
Kondurcha River. Timur's allies Temür Qutlugh and Edigu took the
eastern half of the Golden Horde. Tokhtamysh returned in 1394,
ravaging the region of Shirvan. In 1395, Timur annihilated
Tokhtamysh's army again at the Battle of the Terek River, destroyed
his capital, looted the Crimean trade centers, and deported the most
skillful craftsmen to his own capital in Samarkand. Timur's forces
reached as far north as Ryazan before turning back.[103]

Edigu (1395–1419)

Temür Qutlugh was chosen Khan in Sarai while Edigu became co- Emir Timur and his forces advance
against the Golden Horde, Khan
ruler, and Koirijak was appointed sovereign of the White Horde by
Tokhtamysh.
Timur.[104] Tokhtamysh fled to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and
asked Vytautas for assistance in retaking the Golden Horde in
exchange for suzerainty over the Rus' lands. In 1399, Vytautas and
Tokhtamysh attacked Temür Qutlugh and Edigu at the Battle of the
Vorskla River but were defeated. The Golden Horde victory secured
Kiev, Podolia, and some land in the lower Bug River basin.
Tokhtamysh died in obscurity in Tyumen around 1405. His son Jalal
al-Din fled to Lithuania and participated in the Battle of Grunwald
against the Teutonic Order.[105]

Temür Qutlugh died in 1400 and his cousin Shadi Beg was elected
khan with Edigu's approval. After defeating Vytautas, Edigu
concentrated on strengthening the Golden Horde. He forbade selling
Golden Horde subjects as slaves abroad. Later on the slave trade was
resumed, but only Circassians were allowed to be sold. As a result
most of the Mamluk recruits in the 15th century were of Circassian
origin. Timur died in 1405 and Edigu took advantage to seize
Khwarezm a year later. From 1400 to 1408, Edigu gradually
regained the eastern Rus' tributaries, with the exception of Moscow,
which he failed to take in a siege but ravaged the surrounding area.
Smolensk was also lost to Lithuania. Shadi Beg rebelled against
Edigu but was defeated and fled to Astrakhan. Shadi Beg was
replaced by Pulad, who died in 1410 and was succeeded by Temur
Khan, the son of Temür Qutlugh. Temur Khan turned against Edigu
and forced him to flee to Khwarezm in 1411. Temur himself was Tokhtamysh besieges Moscow.
ousted the next year by Jalal al-Din, who returned from Lithuania
and briefly took the throne. In 1414, Shah Rukh of the Timurids
conquered Khwarezm. Edigu fled to the Crimea where he launched raids on Kiev and tried to forge an
alliance with Lithuania to win back the horde. Edigu died in 1419 in a skirmish with one of Tokhtamysh's
sons.[106]

Disintegration

Khanate of Sibir (1405)

The Khanate of Sibir was ruled by a dynasty originating with Taibuga in 1405 at Chimgi-Tura. After his
death in 1428, the khanate was ruled by the Uzbek khan Abu'l-Khayr Khan. When he died in 1468, the
khanate split in two, with the Shaybanid Ibak Khan situated in Chimgi-Tura, and the Taibugid Muhammad
at the fortress of Sibir, from which the khanate derives its name.[107]

Uzbek Khanate (1428)

After 1419, the Golden Horde functionally ceased to exist. Ulugh Muhammad was officially Khan of the
Golden Horde but his authority was limited to the lower banks of the Volga where Tokhtamysh's other son
Kepek also reigned. The Golden Horde's influence was replaced in Eastern Europe by the Grand Duchy of
Lithuania, who Ulugh Muhammad turned to for support. The political situation in the Golden Horde did not
stabilize. In 1422, the grandson of Urus Khan, Barak Khan, attacked the reigning khans in the west. Within
two years, Ulugh, Kepek, and another claimant Dawlat Berdi, were defeated. Ulugh Muhammad fled to
Lithuania, Kepek tried to raid Odoyev and Ryazan but failed to establish himself in those regions, and
Dawlat took advantage of the situation to seize Crimea. Barak defeated an invasion by Ulugh Beg in 1427
but was assassinated the next year. His successor, Abu'l-Khayr Khan, founded the Uzbek Khanate.[108]

Nogai Horde (1440s)

By the 1440s, a descendant of Edigu by the name of Musa bin Waqqas was ruling at Saray-Jük as an
independent khan of the Nogai Horde.[109]

Khanate of Kazan (1445)

Ulugh Muhammad ousted Dawlat Berdi from Crimea. At the same time, the khan Hacı I Giray fled to
Lithuania to ask Vytautas for support. In 1426, Ulugh Muhammad contributed troops to Vytautas' war
against Pskov. Despite the Golden Horde's extremely reduced status, both Yury of Zvenigorod and Vasily
Kosoy still visited Ulugh Muhammad's court in 1432 to request a grand ducal patent. A year later, Ulugh
Muhammad lost the throne to Sayid Ahmad I, a son of Tokhtamysh. Ulugh Muhammad fled to the town of
Belev on the upper Oka River, where he came into conflict with the Grand Duchy of Muscovy. Vasily II of
Moscow attempted to drive him out but was defeated at the Battle of Belyov. Ulugh Muhammad became
master of Belev. Ulugh Muhammad continued to exert influence on Muscovy, occupying Gorodets in 1444.
Vasily II even wanted him to issue him a patent for the throne, but Ulugh Muhammad attacked him instead
at Murom in 1445. On 7 July, Vasily II was defeated and taken prisoner by Ulugh Muhammad at the Battle
of Suzdal. Despite his victory, Ulugh Muhammad's situation was pressed. The Golden Horde was no more,
he had barely 10,000 soldiers, and thus could not press the advantage against Moscow. A few months later
he released Vasily II for a ransom of 25,000 rubles. Unfortunately, Ulugh Muhammad was murdered by his
son, Mäxmüd of Kazan, who fled to the middle Volga region and founded the Khanate of Kazan in
1445.[110] In 1447, Mäxmüd sent an army against Muscovy but was repelled. [111]
Crimean Khanate (1449)

In 1449, Hacı I Giray seized Crimea from Sayid Ahmad I, and founded the Crimean Khanate.[111]

Qasim Khanate (1452)

One of Ulugh Muhammad's sons, Qasim Khan, fled to Moscow, where Vasily II granted him land that
became the Qasim Khanate[111]

Kazakh Khanate (1458)

In 1458, Janibek Khan and Kerei Khan led 200,000 of Abu'l-Khayr Khan eastwards to the Chu River where
Esen Buqa II of Moghulistan granted them pasture lands. After Abu'l-Khayr Khan died in 1467, they
assumed leadership over most of his followers, and became the Kazakh Khanate.[112]

Great Horde (1459–1502)

In 1435, the khan Küchük Muhammad ousted Sayid Ahmad. He

attacked Ryazan and suffered a major defeat against the forces of Vasily
II. Sayid Ahmad continued to raid Muscovy and in 1449 made a direct
attack on Moscow. However he was defeated by Muscovy's ally Qasim
Khan. In 1450, Küchük Muhammad attacked Ryazan but was turned
back by a combined Russo-Tatar army. In 1451, Sayid Ahmad tried to
take Moscow again and failed.[113]

Küchük Muhammad was succeeded by his son Mahmud bin Küchük in

1459, from which point on the Golden Horde came to be known as the
Great Horde. Mahmud was succeeded by his brother Ahmed Khan bin
Küchük in 1465. In 1469, Ahmed attacked and killed the Uzbek Abu'l-
Khayr Khan. In the summer of 1470, Ahmed organized an attack
against Moldavia, the Kingdom of Poland, and Lithuania. By August
20, the Moldavian forces under Stephen the Great defeated the Tatars at
the battle of Lipnic. In 1474 and 1476, Ahmed insisted that Ivan III of
Russia recognize the khan as his overlord. In 1480, Ahmed organized a
military campaign against Moscow, resulting in a face off between two
opposing armies known as the Great Stand on the Ugra River. Ahmed
judged the conditions unfavorable and retreated. This incident formally
The Great stand on the Ugra
ended the "Tatar Yoke" over Rus' lands. On 6 January 1481, Ahmed
river, 1480
was killed by Ibak Khan, the prince of the Khanate of Sibir, and Nogays
at the mouth of the Donets River.[114]

Ahmed's sons were unable to maintain the Great Horde. They attacked the Kingdom of Poland and the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania (which possessed much of the Ukraine at the time) in 1487–1491 and reached as
far as Lublin in eastern Poland before being decisively beaten at Zaslavl.[115]

The Crimean Khanate, which had become a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire in 1475, subjugated what
remained of the Great Horde, sacking Sarai in 1502. After seeking refuge in Lithuania, Sheikh Ahmed, last
Khan of the Horde, died in prison in Kaunas some time after 1504. According to other sources, he was
released from the Lithuanian prison in 1527.[116]
Records of Golden Horde existence reach however as far as end of 18th century and it was mentioned in
works of Russian publisher Nikolay Novikov in his work of 1773 "Ancient Russian Hydrography".[117]

Astrakhan Khanate (1466)

After 1466, Mahmud bin Küchük's descendants continued to rule in Astrakhan as the khans of the Astrakhan
Khanate.[118]

Russian conquests

The Tsardom of Russia conquered the Khanate of Kazan in 1552, the Khanate of Astrakhan in 1556, and the
Khanate of Sibir in 1582. The Crimean Tatars wreaked havoc in southern Russia, Ukraine and even Poland
in the course of the 16th and early 17th centuries (see Crimean–Nogai raids into East Slavic lands), but they
were not able to defeat Russia or take Moscow. Under Ottoman protection, the Khanate of Crimea continued
its precarious existence until Catherine the Great annexed it on April 8, 1783. It was by far the longest-lived
of the successor states to the Golden Horde.

Tributaries
The subjects of the
Golden Horde included
the Rus' people,
Armenians, Georgians,
Circassians, Alans,
Crimean Greeks,
Crimean Goths,
Bulgarians, and Vlachs.
The objective of the
Golden Horde in
conquered lands
revolved around
obtaining recruits for the
army and exacting tax
payments from its
subjects. In most cases
the Golden Horde did
not implement direct
control over the people
The Golden Horde and its Rus' tributaries in 1313 under Öz Beg Khan
they conquered.[119]

Eastern Europe

While the Mongols generally did not directly administer the Eastern European lands they conquered, in the
cases of the Principality of Pereyaslavl, Principality of Kiev, and Podolia, they removed the native
administration altogether and replaced it with their own direct control. The Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia,
Principality of Smolensk, Principality of Chernigov, and Principality of Novgorod-Seversk retained their
princes but also had to contend with Mongol agents who enforced recruitment and tax collection. The
Novgorod Republic was exempt from the presence of Mongol agents after 1260 but still had to pay taxes.
The Mongols took censuses of Rus' lands in 1245, 1258, 1259, 1260, 1274, and 1275. No further censuses
were taken after that. Some places such as the town of Tula became
the personal property of individual Mongols such as the Khatun
Taidula, the mother of Jani Beg.[119]

The Rus' princes had to receive a patent for his throne from the
khan, who then sent an envoy to install the prince on his throne.
From the time of Öz Beg Khan on, a commissioner was appointed
by the khan to reside at each of the Rus' principalities' capitals.
Mongol rule loosened in the late 13th century so that some Rus'
princes were able to collect taxes as the khan's agents. By the early
14th century, all the grand dukes were collecting taxes by
themselves, so that the average people no longer dealt with Mongol
overlords while their rulers answered to Sarai.[120]

Mongol rule in Galicia ended with its conquest by the Kingdom of

Poland (1025–1385) in 1349. The Golden Horde entered severe Alexander Nevsky and a Mongol
decline after the death of Berdi Beg in 1359, which started a shaman
protracted political crisis lasting two decades. In 1363, the Grand
Duchy of Lithuania won the Battle of Blue Waters against the
Golden Horde and conquered both Kiev and Podolia. After 1360, payment of tribute and taxes from Rus'
subjects to the declining Golden Horde decreased significantly. In 1374, Nizhny Novgorod rebelled and
slaughtered an embassy sent by Mamai. For a brief period after the victorious Battle of Kulikovo in 1380 by
Dmitry Donskoy against Mamai, the Grand Duchy of Moscow was free of Mongol control until Tokhtamysh
restored Mongol suzerainty over Moscow two years later with the Siege of Moscow (1382).[121]
Tokhtamysh also crushed the Lithuanian army at Poltava in the next year.[101] Władysław II Jagiełło, Grand
Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, accepted his supremacy and agreed to pay tribute in turn for a grant
of Rus' territory.[102] In 1395, Timur annihilated Tokhtamysh's army again at the Battle of the Terek River,
destroyed his capital, looted the Crimean trade centers, and deported the most skillful craftsmen to his own
capital in Samarkand. Timur's forces reached as far north as Ryazan before turning back. Tokhtamysh fled to
the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and asked Vytautas for assistance in retaking the Golden Horde in exchange
for suzerainty over the Rus' lands. In 1399, Vytautas and Tokhtamysh attacked Temür Qutlugh and Edigu at
the Battle of the Vorskla River but were defeated. The Golden Horde victory secured for it Kiev, Podolia,
and some land in the lower Bug River basin. Tokhtamysh died in obscurity in Tyumen around 1405. His son
Jalal al-Din fled to Lithuania and participated in the Battle of Grunwald against the Teutonic Order.[122]

From 1400 to 1408, Edigu gradually regained control of the eastern Rus' tributaries, with the exception of
Moscow, which he failed to take in a siege but ravaged the surrounding countryside. Smolensk was lost to
Lithuania.[122] After Edigu died in 1419, the Golden Horde rapidly disintegrated but it still retained some
vestige of influence in Eastern Europe. In 1426, Ulugh Muhammad contributed troops to Vytautas' war
against Pskov and despite the horde's reduced size, both Yury of Zvenigorod and Vasily Kosoy still visited
Ulugh Muhammad's court in 1432 to request a grand ducal patent. A year later, Ulugh Muhammad was
ousted and fled to the town of Belev on the upper Oka River, where he came into conflict with Vasily II of
Moscow, whom he defeated twice in battle. In 1445, Vasily II was taken prisoner by Ulugh Muhammad and
ransomed for 25,000 rubles. Ulugh Muhammad was murdered in the same year by his son, Mäxmüd of
Kazan, who fled to the middle Volga region and founded the Khanate of Kazan.[110]

In 1447, Mäxmüd sent an army against Muscovy but was repelled. Another of Ulugh Muhammad's sons,
Qasim Khan, fled to Moscow, where Vasily II granted him land that became the Qasim Khanate[111] Both
the khans Küchük Muhammad and Sayid Ahmad attempted to reassert authority over Moscow. Küchük
Muhammad attacked Ryazan and suffered a major defeat against the forces of Vasily II. Sayid Ahmad
continued to raid Muscovy and in 1449 made a direct attack on Moscow. However he was defeated by
Muscovy's ally Qasim Khan. In 1450, Küchük Muhammad attacked Ryazan but was turned back by a
combined Russo-Tatar army. In 1451, Sayid Ahmad tried to take Moscow again and failed.[113]

In the summer of 1470, Ahmed Khan bin Küchük, ruler of the Great Horde, organized an attack against
Moldavia, the Kingdom of Poland, and Lithuania. By August 20, the Moldavian forces under Stephen the
Great defeated the Tatars at the battle of Lipnic. In 1474 and 1476, Ahmed insisted that Ivan III of Russia
recognize the khan as his overlord. In 1480, Ahmed organized a military campaign against Moscow,
resulting in a face off between two opposing armies known as the Great Stand on the Ugra River. Ahmed
judged the conditions unfavorable and retreated. This incident formally ended the "Tatar Yoke" over Rus'
lands.[114]

Trade
Sarai carried on a brisk trade with the Genoese trade emporiums on the coast of the Black Sea – Soldaia,
Caffa, and Azak. Mamluk Egypt was the Khans' long-standing trade partner and ally in the Mediterranean.
Berke, the Khan of Kipchak had drawn up an alliance with the Mamluk Sultan Baibars against the Ilkhanate
in 1261.[123]

A change in trade routes

According to Baumer [124] the natural trade route was down the Volga to Serai where it intersected the east-
west route north of the Caspian, and then down the west side of the Caspian to Tabriz in Persian Azerbaijan
where it met the larger east-west route south of the Caspian. Around 1262 Berke broke with the Il-Khan
Hulagu Khan. This led to several wars on the west side of the Caspian which the Horde usually lost. The
interruption of trade and conflict with Persia led the Horde to build trading towns along the northern route.
They also allied with the Mamluks of Egypt who were the Il-Khan's enemies. Trade between the Horde and
Egypt was carried by the Genoese based in Crimea. An important part of this trade was slaves for the
Mamluk army. Trade was weakened by a quarrel with the Genoese in 1307 and a Mumluk-Persian peace in
1323. Circa 1336 the Ilkhanate began to disintegrate which shifted trade north. Around 1340 the route north
of the Caspian was described by Pegolotti. In 1347 a Horde siege of the Genoese Crimean port of Kaffa led
to the spread of the black death to Europe. In 1395-96 Tamerlane laid waste to the Horde's trading towns.
Since they had no agricultural hinterland many of the towns vanished and trade shifted south.

Geography and society

Genghis Khan assigned four Mongol mingghans: the Sanchi'ud (or Salji'ud), Keniges, Uushin, and Je'ured
clans to Jochi.[125] By the beginning of the 14th century, noyans from the Sanchi'ud, Hongirat, Ongud
(Arghun), Keniges, Jajirad, Besud, Oirat, and Je'ured clans held importants positions at the court or
elsewhere. There existed four mingghans (4,000) of the Jalayir in the left wing of the Ulus of Jochi (Golden
Horde).

The population of the Golden Horde was largely a mixture of Turks and Mongols who adopted Islam later,
as well as smaller numbers of Finno-Ugrians, Sarmato-Scythians, Slavs, and people from the Caucasus,
among others (whether Muslim or not).[126] Most of the Horde's population was Turkic: Kipchaks, Cumans,
Volga Bulgars, Khwarezmians, and others. The Horde was gradually Turkified and lost its Mongol identity,
while the descendants of Batu's original Mongol warriors constituted the upper class.[127] They were
commonly named the Tatars by the Russians and Europeans. Russians preserved this common name for this
group down to the 20th century. Whereas most members of this group identified themselves by their ethnic
or tribal names, most also considered themselves to be Muslims. Most of the population, both agricultural
and nomadic, adopted the Kypchak language, which developed into the regional languages of Kypchak
groups after the Horde disintegrated.

The descendants of Batu ruled the Golden Horde from Sarai Batu and later Sarai Berke, controlling an area
ranging from the Volga River and the Carpathian mountains to the mouth of the Danube River. The
descendants of Orda ruled the area from the Ural River to Lake Balkhash. Censuses recorded Chinese living
quarters in the Tatar parts of Novgorod, Tver and Moscow.

Internal organization

The Golden Horde's elites were descended from four Mongol clans,
Qiyat, Manghut, Sicivut and Qonqirat. Their supreme ruler was the
Khan, chosen by the kurultai among Batu Khan's descendants. The
prime minister, also ethnically Mongol, was known as "prince of
princes", or beklare-bek. The ministers were called viziers. Local
governors, or basqaqs, were responsible for levying taxes and
dealing with popular discontent. Civil and military administration, as
a rule, were not separate.

The Horde developed as a sedentary rather than nomadic culture,

with Sarai evolving into a large, prosperous metropolis. In the early Tilework fragments of a palace in
14th century, the capital was moved considerably upstream to Sarai Sarai.
Berqe, which became one of the largest cities of the medieval world,
with 600,000 inhabitants.[128] Sarai was described by the famous
traveller Ibn Battuta as "one of the most beautiful cities ... full of people, with the beautiful bazaars and wide
streets", and having 13 congregational mosques along with "plenty of lesser mosques".[129] Another
contemporary source describes it as "a grand city accommodating markets, baths and religious
institutions".[129] An astrolabe was discovered during excavations at the site and the city was home to many
poets, most of whom are known to us only by name.[129][130]

Despite Russian efforts at proselytizing in Sarai, the Mongols clung to their traditional animist or shamanist
beliefs until Uzbeg Khan (1312–41) adopted Islam as a state religion. Several rulers of Kievan Rus' –
Mikhail of Chernigov and Mikhail of Tver among them – were reportedly assassinated in Sarai, but the
Khans were generally tolerant and even released the Russian Orthodox Church from paying taxes.

Provinces

The Mongols favored decimal organization, which was inherited from Genghis Khan. It is said that there
were a total of ten political divisions within the Golden Horde. The Golden Horde majorly was divided into
Blue Horde (Kok Horde) and White Horde (Ak Horde). Blue Horde consisted of Pontic-Caspian steppe,
Khazaria, Volga Bulgaria, while White Horde encompassed the lands of the princes of the left hand:
Taibugin Yurt, Ulus Shiban, Ulus Tok-timur, Ulus Ezhen Horde.

Vassal territories
Venetian port cities in Crimea (center at Qırım). After the Mongol conquest in 1238, the port
cities in Crimea paid the Jochids custom duties, and the revenues were divided among all
Chingisid princes of the Mongol Empire in accordance with the appanage system.,[131]
the banks of Azov,
 the country of Circassians,
Walachia,
Alania,
Russian lands.[132]

Genetics
A genetic study published in Nature in May 2018 examined the remains of two Golden Horde males buried
in the Ulytau District in Kazakhstan. One male, who was a warrior of Mongoloid origin, carried of the
paternal haplogroup C3 and the maternal haplogroup D4m2. The other male, who was a slave of Caucasoid
origin, was a carrier of the paternal haplogroup R1 and the maternal haplogroup I1b, both western Eurasian
lineages. The evidence suggested that Turkic languages and culture was spread throughout Central Asia by a
dominant minority of East Asian origin.[133]

Coinage

Tulabuga's silver dirham Coin of Berdi Beg of the Golden

Horde 762 Hijri (1359 AD).

Gallery
Golden Horde raid Golden Horde raid Golden Horde raid Golden Horde raid
at Rayzan at Kyev at Kozelsk Vladimir

Golden Horde raid Mongol-Tatar Mongols chase The Mongol army

Suzdal warriors besiege Hungarian king from captures a Rus' city
their opponents. Mohi, detail from
Chronicon Pictum.
Mongol invasion of Edigu's invasion of The sack of Suzdal The battle of
Hungary in 1285 Rus. by Batu Khan in Liegnitz, 1241. From
1238, miniature from a medieval
16th-century manuscript of the
chronicle. Hedwig legend.

Drawing of Mongols Paiza of Abdullah Mongol-Tatar raid A Rus' prince being

of the Golden Horde Khan (r. 1361–70) punished by the
outside Vladimir with Mongolian Golden Horde
presumably script
demanding
submission before
sacking the city

See also
Cuman people
Mongol invasion of Rus'
Russo-Kazan Wars
Tatar invasions
Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'
Tokhtamysh–Timur war
Volga Bulgaria
Division of the Mongol Empire
Berke–Hulagu war
History of the western steppe
List of Khans of the Golden Horde
List of medieval Mongol tribes and clans
List of Mongol states
List of Turkic dynasties and countries
 Jarlig

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Further reading
Boris Grekov and Alexander Yakubovski, The Golden Horde and its Downfall
George Vernadsky, The Mongols and Russia
The Golden Horde, FTDNA (http://www.familytreedna.com/public/golden_horde)

External links
The Golden Horde coinage (https://web.archive.org/web/20160110065711/http://horde.ru/)
(in Russian) Golden Horde (http://arheo.manefon.org/?cat=79) — articles at the World
Archaeology (http://arheo.manefon.org/)

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