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Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Principality of Ryazan
drawn on the map 1094–1240
A northeastern principality on the Oka. It has the grim distinction of being the first Rus' principality sacked by Batu Khan, in December 1237 — the city of (Old) Ryazan was annihilated and never rebuilt on the same site, an event memorialized in the Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan by Batu.
- Shown on the map
- 1094–1240
- Peak area
- 66k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
A northeastern principality on the Oka. It has the grim distinction of being the first Rus' principality sacked by Batu Khan, in December 1237 — the city of (Old) Ryazan was annihilated and never rebuilt on the same site, an event memorialized in the Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan by Batu. It remained a frontier principality against the steppe.
Common questions
- What was the Principality of Ryazan?
- A northeastern principality on the Oka. It has the grim distinction of being the first Rus' principality sacked by Batu Khan, in December 1237 — the city of (Old) Ryazan was annihilated and never rebuilt on the same site, an event memorialized in the Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan by Batu.
- When is the Principality of Ryazan shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Principality of Ryazan 1094–1240. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Principality of Ryazan?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Principality of Ryazan covered about 66,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Principality of Ryazan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Ryazan
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Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.
Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
Further reading in Knowledge
- Religion & Belief · Rostov-Suzdal Kitezh: The Invisible City and the Legend of 1238 The legend of Kitezh, the Russian city that became invisible to escape Batu in 1238: where the story comes from, what the chronicles say, what the lake holds.
- War & Warriors · Kievan Rus' The Mongol Invasion of Rus' (1237–1240): How the Cities Fell How the Mongols conquered Rus' in 1237–1240, city by city from Ryazan and Vladimir to Kyiv, what chronicles and graves show, and where the "Tatar yoke" began.
- People · Mongol Empire Batu Khan: Genghis Khan's Grandson and the Conquest of Rus' Who Batu Khan was, how he led the Mongol conquest of Rus' and the invasion of Hungary, why he turned back in 1242, and what eyewitnesses saw at his court.
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