A fierce battle scene from The Golden Horde, showing warriors on horseback charging into combat with swords and shields

eLibrary: Golden Horde (1252-1502)

When the great Mongol leader, Ghangis Khan, died in 1225, he divided his empire among his four grandsons. Batu was assigned control over the most north-western territories, which became known as the Ulug Ulus (Great State) or, more commonly, ‘Golden Horde’. The ‘Pax Mongolia’, that stretched from the Horde’s western borders to China seas, opened up an era of prosperity along the overland silk road. 

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Articles

Bacumenco-Pîrnău, L., Bejenaru, L. and Rafailă-Stanc, S., 1966. Animal Food Resources in the Golden Horde Period. Case Study: Old Orhei (Republic of Moldova). culture209, 1966. p.791. [pdf]

Favereau, M. and Pochekaev, R.Y. The Golden Horde, c. 1260-1502The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire 2 Volumes. 2023. [book]

Gündoğdu, A., UDC 94 «04/15» AN OVERVIEW OF THE GOLDEN HORDE STUDIES AND THE PLACE OF GENGHIZNAME AND SHIBANNAMES AS NATIVE SOURCES IN THE GOLDEN HORDE STUDIES. [pdf]

Haddon, R.A.W. Fourteenth century fine glazed wares produced in the Iranian world, and comparisons with contemporary ones from the Golden Horde and Mamlūk Syria/Egypt (Doctoral dissertation, SOAS, University of London). 2011. [Academia]

Halperin, C. Russia and the Golden Horde: the Mongol impact on medieval Russian history (Vol. 445). Indiana University Press. 1987. [book]

İNALCIK, H. The Crimean Khanate, Ottomans and the Rise of the Russian Empire. 1994. [pdf]

Kançal-Ferrari, N. Contextualising the Decorum of Golden Horde-Period Mosques in Crimea:. Artistic Interactions as Reflected in Patronage and Material Culture. Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Mediterranee, (143), 2018. pp.vol-143. [Journal]

Karibaev, B., Maidanali, Z., Bizhanova, M., Koshymova, A. and Noyanov, Y. New methodological approaches to the study of political history of the Golden Horde in the 13th-16th centuries. Codrul Cosm25(1), 2019. pp.7-30. [pdf]

Kovács, S., 2018. An Unremembered Hungarian Friar’s Martyrdom in the Golden Horde. Chronica18, 2018. pp.178-189. [Academia]

Laumulin, M.T., THE HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN HORDE IN ORIENTALISM: A BRIEF OUTLINE. MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF CENTRAL EURASIA, p.51. [pdf]

MADGEARU, A., THE END OF THE GOLDEN HORDE DOMINATION IN THE TERRITORY BETWEEN EASTERN CARPATHIANS AND DNIESTER. In TÜRKİYE-ROMANIA JOINT MILITARY HISTORY SYMPOSIUM (p. 23). [pdf]

Martin, J., The land of darkness and the golden hord. The fur trade under the Mongols XIII-XIVth centuriesCahiers du monde russe et soviétique, 1978, 401-421. [website]

Muirhead, H. Ceramics, Ethnicity, and Style: Understanding Social Boundaries and Ceramic Exchange in the Middle Volga from the 13th to 15th Century during the Golden Horde Period (Doctoral dissertation). 2018. [pdf]

Nedashkovsky, L.F. Agriculture, cattle breeding and trade in the Golden Horde based on data from written sourcesTerra Sebus: Acta Musei Sabesiensis, 2014. pp.291-303. [pdf]

Nedashkovsky, L.F. Trade in the Golden Horde Volga RegionJournal of Sustainable Development8(7), 2015. p.199. [pdf]

Neumann, I.B. ‘Europeans and the Steppe: Russian lands under the Mongol Rule’ Chapter for Yongjin Zhang, Shogo Suzuki & Joel Quirk (eds.) International orders in the Early Modern World: Before the Rise of the West London: Routledge, 2014. [pdf]

Panyushkina, I.P., Usmanova, E.R., Uskenbay, K.Z., Kozha, M.B., Dzhumabekov, D.A., Akhatov, G.A. and Jull, A.T. Chronology of the Golden Horde in Kazakhstan: 14C Dating of Jochi Khan Mausoleum. Radiocarbon64(2), 2022. pp.323-331. [website]

Putra, J.S. and Karali, N. Traces of Islamic Sovereignty in Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. Journal of Islamic History and Manuscript1(2), 2022. pp.159-184. [pdf download]

Rus, I.N.E., The influence of the Golden Horde on the culture of ancient Rus' and modern Russia. Analysis of the historical conditions for the development of Rus' during the Tatar-Mongol yoke. [pdf]

Schamiloglu, U., Preliminary Remarks on the Role of Disease in the History of the Golden Horde, Central Asian Survey12(4), 1993, pp.447-457. [pdf]

Schamiloglu, U. An Agenda for Research on the Golden HordeIIUe2002. pdf. [pdf]

Schamiloglu, U., Mongol or Not?: The Rise of an Islamic Turkic Culture in Transoxiana [pdf]

Schamiloglu, U. The Islamic High Culture of the Golden Horde. In Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Islamic Civilization in the VolgaUral Region: Kazan, 2426 June 2005 (pp. 19-39). Sources and Studies on the History of Islamic Civilization. Istanbul, Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture. 2008. [pdf]

Schamiloglu, U. Tribal Politics and Social Organization in the Golder Horde, PhD. Columbia University, 1986. [pdf]

Talakh, V.M. Historical Context of the Treaties Between Genoa and the Golden Horde 1380-1381Science, Technology and Society10(2), 2022. pp.49-65. [pdf]

Trepavlov, V.V. Russian ulus” of the Golden Horde. Russian history, (1), 2021. pp.3-15. [pdf]

Uli, S., The impact of the Black death on the Golden Horde: politics, economy, society, civilizationЗолотоордынское обозрение, (2),2017 pp.325-343. [pdf download]

Uli, S., 2018. The rise of urban centers in the Golden Horde and the city of ÜkekЗолотоордынское обозрение, (1), pp.18-39. [pdf download]

Ulus, U., Golden Horde. [website]

Uzelac, A. An Empire Within an Empire?. Chronica18, 2019. p.271. [pdf]

Vásáry, I. Golden Horde KhanateThe Encyclopedia of Empire, 2016. pp.1-10. [pdf]

Vásáry, I. The Crimean Khanate and the Great Horde (1440s–1500s): A Fight for Primacy. na. 2012. [pdf]

Waugh, D.C. ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE ULUS JÖCHI (GOLDEN HORDE). 2019. [pdf]

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