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Name: Principality of Rostock

Type: Polity

Start: 1228 AD

End: 1300 AD

Nation: rostock

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Was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the 13th and early 14th centuries. It arose from the first partition of Mecklenburg.

Establishment


  • January 1228: Establishment of the Principality of Rostock.
  • 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 Invasions of Germany

    Were a series of Mongol raids in Germany.

    1.1.1.First Mongol Invasion of Germany

    Was a Mongol raid in the Holy Roman Empire.

  • May 1241: The Mongols invaded the Holy Roman Empire without major clash of arms.The army invaded eastern Germany, and crossed the March of Moravia in April-May 1241.
  • June 1241: The Mongols left eastern Germany and Moravia.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1301: In 1300 Rostock fell under the protection and feudal rule of King Eric of Denmark.
  • Selected Sources


  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), p. 26-49
  • Strakosh-Grassmann, G. (1893): Der Einfall der Mongolen in Mitteleuropa in den Jahren 1241 und 1242, Innsbruck (Austria), pp. 53-67
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