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Name: Pereyaslavl-Zalessky Principality (Mongol Empire)

Type: Polity

Start: 1239 AD

End: 1260 AD

Nation: pereyaslavl-zalessky principality

Parent: mongol empire

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Was a small Russian Principality. It was a Mongol vassal from 1238, and from 1261 a vassal of the successor state of the Mongol Empire in the region, the Golden Horde.

Establishment


  • January 1239: In 1238 Yaroslav was in Kiev, but Pereyaslavl and Tver put up fierce resistance to the Mongols. Pereyaslavl was taken by the Mongol princes together in 5 days .
  • Chronology


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    1. Mongol invasions and conquests


    Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

    1.1.Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'

    The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered the Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century.


    2. Mongol Civil Wars


    Were a series of wars between the successor states of the Mongol Empire.

    2.1.Toluid Civil War

    Was a war of succession over the Mongol Empire fought between Kublai Khan and his younger brother, Ariq Böke, from 1260 to 1264.

    2.1.1.Division of the Mongol Empire

    The Mongol Empire fragmented into four successor states at the beginning of the Toluid Civil War.

  • January 1261: The Mongol Empire fragmented into four political units: the Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate, the Yuan Dynasty and the Chagatai Khanate.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1247: The Principality of Tverskoe emerged after the murder of the Grand Duke Yaroslav Vsevolodovich (1246).

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1261: The Mongol Empire fragmented into four political units: the Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate, the Yuan Dynasty and the Chagatai Khanate.
  • Selected Sources


  • Kopalyan, N. (2017): World Political Systems after Polarity, Taylor & Francis, p. 164
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