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Name: Principality of Turov

Type: Polity

Start: 1133 AD

End: 1238 AD

Nation: principality of turov

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Was one of the major Principalities that succeeded to the Kievan Rus'. It controlled regions on the territory of modern southern Belarus and northern Ukraine. 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 1133: Following the death of Mstislav I of Kiev in 1132, the semi-autonomous states of the Kievan Rus' were de facto independent.
  • Chronology


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    1. Fragmentation of the Kievan Rus´


    Following the death of Mstislav I of Kiev in 1132, the semi-autonomous states of the Kievan Rus' were de facto independent.


    2. 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.

    2.1.Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'

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

  • January 1239: Thereupon Batu Khan divided his army into smaller units, which ransacked fourteen cities of modern-day Russia: Rostov, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kashin, Ksnyatin, Gorodets, Galich, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yuriev-Polsky, Dmitrov, Volokolamsk, Tver, and Torzhok.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1175: The Principality of Pinsk separated from the Turov principality in the second half of the 12th century.

  • January 1175: A principality was formed from the Turovo-Pinsk land in 1167 - 1174, years after the death of Yuri Yaroslavich.

  • January 1238: Lithuania, taking advantage of the conflict between the Teutonic and Livonian Orders, launched an attack on Ruthenia and successfully annexed the regions of Navahrudak and Hrodna.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1239: Thereupon Batu Khan divided his army into smaller units, which ransacked fourteen cities of modern-day Russia: Rostov, Uglich, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Kashin, Ksnyatin, Gorodets, Galich, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yuriev-Polsky, Dmitrov, Volokolamsk, Tver, and Torzhok.
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