Edigü
Mongolian leader
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Battle of Vorskla River
- In Battle of the Vorskla River
…Temür Kutlugh as khan and Edigü as emir. In order to restore his authority, Tokhtamysh requested aid from Vytautas, who was eager to extend his domain, which reached the Dnieper River in the east, into the lands of the Golden Horde. Vytautas gathered an army of his Russian-Lithuanian forces, Tokhtamysh’s…
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Golden Horde
- In history of Central Asia: Mongol rule
…aegis of an able usurper, Edigü, but after Edigü’s death in 1419 a process of disintegration set in. The core territories of the former Golden Horde, centred on the Volga-Don steppes, became known as the “Great Horde,” while outlying regions seceded to form independent khanates based on Kazan and Astrakhan…
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