squabbles over succession led to the Mongol Empire being split into four khanates, each ruled by a son or grandson. These included the Yuan Dynasty in China, the European Golden Horde, Persia’s ...

Other portions of the empire remained intact for further decades, including in parts of Central Asia and the Golden Horde across much of what is today Russia. The weakness of the Mongol Empire in ...

At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its ...

"The Crimean Tatars are Europe's last descendants of the Mongol Tatar Turkic Golden Horde… direct Muslim ... "Before the British had their empire ... the Italians settled all around the coast ...

The Golden Horde, a successor state of Genghis Khan’s empire, razed cities such as Ryazan, Vladimir, and Kiev, leaving death and destruction in their wake. By 1240, Kievan Rus had fallen under Mongol ...