Mongol invasion of Europe
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From the 1220s to the 1240s, the Mongols conquered the Turkic states of Volga Bulgaria, Cumania and Iranian state of Alania, and various principalities in Eastern Europe. Following this, they began th
Mongol invasion of Europe 1236–1242
Yaroslav II returns to Vladimir after Mongol destruction, miniature from the Kazan Chronicle
The Mongol army captures a city, miniature from the Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible
Henry II the Pious, who lost his life at the Battle of Legnica, 19th-century painting by Jan Matejko
Ögedei Khan
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Ögedei Khan was the second khan of the Mongol Empire. The third son of Genghis Khan, he continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun.
Mongol invasion of Europe
…were killed or bogged down by European stone fortifications, were more important reasons for the Mongolian withdrawal of Europe than the death of Ögedei Khan. On the other hand, the Iranians and other Muslims served as the sole bureaucratic, financial, and logistical backbone of the Mongol war machine because…
Ögedei Khan portrayed in a 14th-century Yuan-era album, originally painted in 1278 (National Palace Museum, Taipei)
Statue of Ögedei Khan in Sükhbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar. Together with Kublai Khan's, and the much larger Genghis Khan's statues, it forms a statue complex dedicated to the Mongol Empire.
Coronation of Ögedei in 1229, by Rashid al-Din, early 14th century