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BATU
... - 1255
Batu was the grandson of Genghis Khan.
In 1235, Batu was promoted commander of
chief of the eastern Mongol army. The assignment? The conquest of
Europe.
Great task, great genes, and Batu did a
great job. Five years later Moscow and Kiev were defeated. Another
two years and Hungary and Poland were in the bag. Germany was next
on the list.
Unfortunately for the Mongols and
luckily for the rest of Europe, the great khan of the
Golden Horde,
who was also Batu's brother, Ögödei, died in December 1241
and Batu and his troops went back to Karakorum, then the capital of
the Mongol Empire.
And here is the map
GOLDEN HORDE IN EUROPE
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