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Battle of the Kalka River (1223)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Kalka River”
31 May 1223 — Three Rus princes and their Cuman allies chase what appears to be a retreat for nine days. At the Kalka the Mongols turn on them and annihilate them. The captured princes are suffocated beneath the victory platform. The raiders leave, and the Rus treat the attack as a passing horror, changing nothing.
When 31 May 1223 Type Battle site Chapter Jebe and Subutai’s great raid (chapter 5 of Mongol Empire)Atlas The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294 BATTLE SITE · THE MONGOL EMPIRE, 1206–1294 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Encyclopaedia Iranica — Herat, medieval history · Peter Jackson, Encyclopaedia Iranica — Mongols · Natural Earth — physical reference geography
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated polygons; documented unions, differences and shared edges for event-specific reconstructions; projected for display. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Historical facts consulted; thematic geometry independently reconstructed Peter Jackson / Encyclopaedia Iranica. Historical facts consulted; thematic geometry independently reconstructed Natural Earth. Public domain The source stage comes later than the conquest of Khorasan. A regional patch anchored to cities transfers the documented conquest corridor within the later Mongol outline; its inferred edge is disclosed.
Published polity extents are used at the date resolution available in their sources. Hatched affected regions and route arrows are educational reconstructions; the source details distinguish them from imported boundaries.
Chapter anchor 1223.5 uses the existing snapshot s1223 (1223.4). The lesson date remains separate from the source reference dates.
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