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Lists of battles of the Mongol invasion of Europe
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<h2 id="lists-of-battles">Lists of battles</h2> <p class="note">See also: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasions_and_conquests/dVfUoc9J">Mongol invasions and conquests</a> and <a href="/facts/Timeline_of_the_Mongol_Empire/2I5zUFz5">Timeline of the Mongol Empire</a></p> <h3>Mongol invasions of Eastern Europe</h3> <h4><a href="/facts/Mongol_invasion_of_Kievan_Rus%2527/J0qTpYyB">Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'</a> (1223, 1237–1241)</h4> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/List_of_battles_of_the_Mongol_invasion_of_Kievan_Rus%2527/Fs16D31X">List of battles of the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'</a></p> <h4><a href="/facts/Mongol_invasion_of_Volga_Bulgaria/wt5kERVq">Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria</a> (1223–1236)</h4> <ul><li>1223: First Mongol invasion of <a href="/facts/Volga_Bulgaria/wGgbDSTn">Volga Bulgaria</a>. <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Samara_Bend/BeYk5ae2">Battle of Samara Bend</a> ends with Mongol defeat.</li> <li>1229–1230: Second Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria.</li> <li>1236: Third Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria; Volga Bulgaria and parts of <a href="/facts/Cumania/DoykM9wW">Cumania</a> were conquered.</li></ul> <h4>Mongol invasions of the North Caucasus</h4> <ul><li>1237–1242 Mongol invasion of Cumania</li> <li>1237–1253: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasion_of_Circassia/mSTamWJz">Mongol invasion of Circassia</a></li> <li>13th century: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasions_of_Durdzuketia/frHMbWda">Mongol invasions of Durdzuketia</a> (modern Chechnya and Ingushetia)</li></ul> <h4>Golden Horde battles (from 1242)</h4> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Timeline_of_the_Golden_Horde/vgJL7j2N">Timeline of the Golden Horde</a></p> <h3>Mongol invasions of Central Europe (1240–1288)</h3> <p class="note">Further information: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasion_of_Europe/P7aedXxS">Mongol invasion of Europe § Invasion of Central Europe</a></p> <ul><li>1237–1240: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasions_of_Lithuania/5XMrVSah">Mongol invasions of Lithuania</a> (first).</li> <li>late 1240–1241: <a href="/facts/First_Mongol_invasion_of_Poland/hnsoV8Du">First Mongol invasion of Poland</a> (including Bohemia).</li> <li>March 1241 – April 1242: <a href="/facts/First_Mongol_invasion_of_Hungary/ej5KFGmL">First Mongol invasion of Hungary</a></li> <li>1241: <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Legnica/KMHGavKo">Battle of Legnica</a> and <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Mohi/orxN0t9l">Battle of Mohi</a>. Devastation of parts of Poland and Hungary following Mongol victories. Some Mongol troops reaches the outskirts of Vienna and Udine. Death of <a href="/facts/%25C3%2596gedei_Khan/RMh89CYN">Ögedei Khan</a>; Retreat of Mongol-Tatar army.</li> <li>spring 1241 – early 1242: <a href="/facts/Mongol_incursions_in_the_Holy_Roman_Empire/PTxzXYJz">Mongol incursions in the Holy Roman Empire</a> (including Austria and northeast Italy)</li> <li>1241–1242: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasion_of_Croatia/ej5KFGmL">Mongol invasion of Croatia and Dalmatia</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li>1258–1259: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasions_of_Lithuania/5XMrVSah">Mongol invasions of Lithuania</a> (second).</li> <li>1258–1260: <a href="/facts/Second_Mongol_invasion_of_Poland/wqCrSI45">Second Mongol invasion of Poland</a> (including Halych-Volhynia and Lithuania).</li> <li>1275, 1279, 1325: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasions_of_Lithuania/5XMrVSah">Mongol invasions of Lithuania</a> (reprises).</li> <li>1284–1285: <a href="/facts/Second_Mongol_invasion_of_Hungary/Kgm3R0Ms">Second Mongol invasion of Hungary</a>.</li> <li>1287–1288: <a href="/facts/Third_Mongol_invasion_of_Poland/GIS8Y4og">Third Mongol invasion of Poland</a>.</li> <li>1337, 1340: Ruthenian-Tatar raids against Poland</li> <li>1363: <a href="/facts/Battle_of_Blue_Waters/Ykw27dcc">Battle of Blue Waters</a>. A Lithuanian army defeats the Mongol Army</li></ul> <h3>Mongol invasions of Southeastern Europe</h3> <ul><li>1241–1242: Mongol invasion of Moldavia and Wallachia</li> <li>1241–1242: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasion_of_Bulgaria_and_Serbia/p5PmVx4U">Mongol invasion of Bulgaria and Serbia</a></li> <li>1242–1243: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasion_of_the_Latin_Empire/j9vP9gJo">Mongol invasion of the Latin Empire</a></li> <li>1264/1265: <a href="/facts/Mongol_invasion_of_Byzantine_Thrace/rejFdQXY">Mongol invasion of Byzantine Thrace</a></li> <li>1271, 1274, 1282 and 1285: Raids against <a href="/facts/Bulgaria/Er5pY3YS">Bulgaria</a>.</li> <li>1291: <a href="/facts/Serbian_conflict_with_the_Nogai_Horde/hcvpvmKP">Serbian conflict with the Nogai Horde</a>.</li> <li>1324 and 1337: Tatar incursions against Byzantine Thrace.</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Genghis_Khan/2cmqeW6a">Genghis Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_Empire/VfdJbt5z">Destruction under the Mongol Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Timeline_of_the_Golden_Horde/vgJL7j2N">Timeline of the Golden Horde</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Crimean%25E2%2580%2593Nogai_slave_raids_in_Eastern_Europe/n8HH2LcA">Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe</a></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Vasily_Klyuchevsky/p55azrAH">Vasily Klyuchevsky</a>, <i>The Course of Russian History</i>, Vol. 2.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Arhiđakon, Toma. "O prirodi Tatara". Historia Salonitana (in Croatian). Split: Književni krug. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>