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Golden Horde

 

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Flag

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

History



Flag

Flagge Fahne flag Goldene Horde Golden Horde Khanat Kiptschak Kipchak Chanate
Flag of the Empire of the Golden Horde,
Dank an: Faruk Tezer,
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Meaning/Origin of the Flag

The handed down flag of the Golden Horde in the times after Khan Batu was obvious white with a red half-moon in the middle (since the year 1313 is the Islam state religion), as well as a black-blue symbol beneath. Blue is the national color of the Mongolians and their Turk succession nations. The in the flag of the Golden Horde showed symbol is interesting from there that it is till today in use by the Crimean Tatars.

Source: Volker Preuß

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History

1196 · the Mongolian prince Temudshin becomes Dshingis Khan

1202–1227 · expansion of the Mongolian Empire by brutal incursions and conquest, territory: today's Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, East Turkestan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and south Siberian areas below the 60th degree of latitude to the Ural-Mountains

1227 · death of Dshingis Khan, division of the Empire under four heirs:

Jochi → Western Siberia;

Ogodei → China, Korea, Mongolia and Manchuria;

Chagatai → East Turkestan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan;

Subutai → Afghanistan and Turkmenistan

1236 · Batu, the son of Jochi the progenitor of the Golden Horde, starts out of the southern Ural area and conquests the Empire of the Volga Bulgarians

1238 · Batu subject the Russian principalities to the Dnepr river

1240–1241 · Batu gains and endangers Hungary and Silesia

1254 · Batu founds Sarai, the capital of the Empire, near the mouth of the Volga river

1255 · Batu dies in Sarai

1256 · Berke becomes Khan of the Golden Horde and converts to the Islam

1260 · Berke founds New Sarai near the Volga Knee

1313 · Usbek becomes Khan of the Golden Horde, levies the Islam to state religion, and relocates the capital to New Sarai

1360–1380 · heritage succession quarrels and inconvenient quarrels with Lithuanians and Russians

1395 · Timur ruins New Sarai

1420 · disintegration of the Empire of the Golden Horde in several particular Khanates (e.g. Khanate of Astrachan, Khanate of Sibir, Khanate of Crimea, Khanate of Kasan)

1480 · end of the Mongolian supremacy in Russia, destruction of the capital Sarai

1502 · expulsion of the last Khan out of Russia

1584 · the Khanate of Sibir gets conquested by Russia as the last existing succession state of the Golden Horde

Source: Atlas zur Geschichte, Discovery '97

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