Polity Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal (Mongol Empire)

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Was one of the major principalities that succeeded Kievan Rus' in the late 12th century, centered in Vladimir-on-Klyazma (Russia). 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

  • March 1238: The forces of Vladimir-Suzdal were encircled and totally annihilated by the Mongols in the Battle of the Sit River on March 4. Vladimir-Suzdal became a Mongol vassal.

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.

  • March 1238: The forces of Vladimir-Suzdal were encircled and totally annihilated by the Mongols in the Battle of the Sit River on March 4. Vladimir-Suzdal became a Mongol vassal.

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 1239: The Principality of Suzdal is established as an inheritance of the Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal Grand Duchy.
  • January 1239: The Principality of Beloozero was detached from the Principality of Rostov in 1238.
  • January 1247: The Principality of Tverskoe emerged after the murder of the Grand Duke Yaroslav Vsevolodovich (1246).
  • January 1248: The Kostroma Principality separated from the Vladimir-Suzdal principality around 1247.
  • January 1248: In 1247, the Grand Duke of Vladimir Svyatoslav III Vsevolodovich allocated the principality to his nephews, the sons of Grand Duke Yaroslav II. One of them, Konstantin, got the Galicia-Dmitrov principality.
  • January 1249: In 1248 the Yurievsky Principality gained independence again.

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