Lists of battles of the Mongol invasion of Europe

This article is about lists of battles of the 13th-century Mongol invasion of Europe. For pre-1241 events involving the Mongol Empire, see Timeline of the Mongol Empire. For post-1241 battles involving the Golden Horde, see Timeline of the Golden Horde. For the battles of the 1223, 1237–1241 Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus', see List of battles of the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'.

These are lists of battles of the Mongol invasion of Europe.

Lists of battles

See also: Mongol invasions and conquests and Timeline of the Mongol Empire

Mongol invasions of Eastern Europe

Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus' (1223, 1237–1241)

Main article: List of battles of the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'

Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria (1223–1236)

• 1223: First Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria. Battle of Samara Bend ends with Mongol defeat.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1229–1230: Second Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1236: Third Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria; Volga Bulgaria and parts of Cumania were conquered.^{[ citation needed ]}

Mongol invasions of the North Caucasus

• 1237–1242 Mongol invasion of Cumania^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1237–1253: Mongol invasion of Circassia
• 13th century: Mongol invasions of Durdzuketia (modern Chechnya and Ingushetia)

Golden Horde battles (from 1242)

Main article: Timeline of the Golden Horde

Mongol invasions of Central Europe (1240–1288)

Further information: Mongol invasion of Europe § Invasion of Central Europe

• 1237–1240: Mongol invasions of Lithuania (first).
• late 1240–1241: First Mongol invasion of Poland (including Bohemia).
• March 1241 – April 1242: First Mongol invasion of Hungary
• 1241: Battle of Legnica and Battle of Mohi. Devastation of parts of Poland and Hungary following Mongol victories. Some Mongol troops reaches the outskirts of Vienna and Udine. Death of Ögedei Khan; Retreat of Mongol-Tatar army.^{[ citation needed ]}
• spring 1241 – early 1242: Mongol incursions in the Holy Roman Empire (including Austria and northeast Italy)
• 1241–1242: Mongol invasion of Croatia and Dalmatia ^[1]
• 1258–1259: Mongol invasions of Lithuania (second).
• 1258–1260: Second Mongol invasion of Poland (including Halych-Volhynia and Lithuania).
• 1275, 1279, 1325: Mongol invasions of Lithuania (reprises).
• 1284–1285: Second Mongol invasion of Hungary.
• 1287–1288: Third Mongol invasion of Poland.
• 1337, 1340: Ruthenian-Tatar raids against Poland^{[ citation needed ]}

Mongol invasions of Southeastern Europe

• 1241–1242: Mongol invasion of Moldavia and Wallachia ^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1241–1242: Mongol invasion of Bulgaria and Serbia
• 1242–1243: Mongol invasion of the Latin Empire
• 1264/1265: Mongol invasion of Byzantine Thrace
• 1271, 1274, 1282 and 1285: Raids against Bulgaria.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1291: Serbian conflict with the Nogai Horde.
• 1324 and 1337: Tatar incursions against Byzantine Thrace.^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• Destruction under the Mongol Empire
• Genghis Khan

References

1. Arhiđakon, Toma. "O prirodi Tatara". Historia Salonitana (in Croatian). Split: Književni krug.

Further reading

• Vasily Klyuchevsky, The Course of Russian History, Vol. 2.