mountains of those parts. They gave an army to Ila’udur
(Aylāwdūr
43
) and
dispatched him against them. He proceeded thither and defeated the Qipchaq, who
had fled to that region. They subjugated the Urungqut
(Ūrunkqūt
44
) and Badach
(Bādāğ
45
) and brought (back) their envoys. The whole of that year was passed in
that region. In the beginning of the
taulai yil, that is,
the Year of the Hare,
corresponding to the months of the year 640/1242-1243, having completed the task
of conquering that country, they returned their
ulus in the
mogha yil, that is, the
Year of the Snake, corresponding to the months of the year 641/1243-1244, and
alighted in their own
ordos. And God best knows the truth.”
46
The Mongol central army led by Batu left the Carpathian Basin in spring of
1242 along the Danube, while the Mongol princes conquering Transylvania
marched along the river Olt toward Bulgaria. Thence most of the Mongol princes
returned to their homeland. Batu and his family settled on the rivers of the South
Russian steppe. Plano Carpini described the Cuman territory (
terra Comanorum)
in his journey across the steppe of Eastern Europe in 1245. He mentioned four
rivers, Dnepr, Don, Volga and Ural, whose both banks were used as migrating way
for the Mongol elite.
47
Batu moved along the Volga and it became the centre of the
Golden Horde, which determined the fate of Eastern
Europe in the next two
centuries.
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