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Why did Batu Khan interrupt his campaign in Central Europe?

Mongol Khan Batu (1208-1255), the grandson of Genghis Khan, in 1237 led a campaign in Eastern Europe. During the autumn and winter of 1237-1238, his troops captured Ryazan, Kolomna, Moscow, Pereyaslavl, Tver, Vladimir and other cities of North-Eastern Russia, only the onset of spring thaw prevented them from reaching Novgorod.

The following winter, the Mongol-Tatars invaded the southern Russian lands and by the end of 1239, having captured the Crimea, they reached the Black Sea. In December 1240, Kyiv fell under the blows of the Mongol-Tatars, and they rushed to Galicia-Volyn Rus, where they took Galich, Vladimir-Volynsky and other Western Russian cities.

Further west, the Mongol hordes of Batu moved, splitting into two parts. One of them went to Poland. Having taken Lublin and Sandomierz, the Mongol-Tatars in the north went to the Baltic Sea, and in the south they captured Krakow and, having crossed the Oder, approached Wroclaw. On April 9, 1241, the combined forces of the Polish and German knights tried to stop the invasion, but were defeated.

Another part of the Mongol-Tatar army invaded Hungary and on April 11, 1241, in the battle on the Sayo River, defeated the army of the Hungarian king Bela IV. From Hungary, the warriors of Batu made devastating raids on Austria, Croatia and Dalmatia and reached almost as far as Venice.

The offensive potential of the Mongol-Tatar hordes was far from being exhausted when their victorious campaign in Central Europe was interrupted by the news of the death of the great Khan Ogedei in Karakorum. In December 1241, Batu hurried to the capital of the vast empire created by his grandfather in order to protect his interests when choosing a new khan.

In 1243, Batu founded a feudal state in the lower reaches of the Volga - the Golden Horde, stretching from the Irtysh to the Danube.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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