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Siege of Ryazan (1237)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Ryazan”
21 Dec 1237 — Ryazan is the first Rus city to fall, after five days of siege in midwinter. The Rus had thought war impossible in this season. The Mongols had chosen it deliberately: frozen rivers gave their riders roads across the country. “And not an eye remained open to weep for the dead,” writes the chronicler.
When 21 Dec 1237 Type Battle site Chapter Mongol invasion of Europe (chapter 6 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 · Asia for Educators — Expansion under Ögödei · Büntgen and Di Cosmo (2016), Mongol withdrawal from Hungary · Encyclopaedia Iranica — Herat, medieval history · Peter Jackson, Encyclopaedia Iranica — Mongols · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · Janet Martin — Medieval Russia 980–1584, chronology · Institute of History of Ukraine — Mongol invasion and its consequences
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. Asia for Educators, Columbia University. Text consulted for historical facts; no map or prose copied Ulf Büntgen and Nicola Di Cosmo. CC BY 4.0 Encyclopaedia Iranica. Historical facts consulted; thematic geometry independently reconstructed Peter Jackson / Encyclopaedia Iranica. Historical facts consulted; thematic geometry independently reconstructed Natural Earth. Public domain Janet Martin, Cambridge University Press. Historical facts consulted; no map or prose copied Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine, 2019. Historical facts consulted; thematic geometry independently reconstructed 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 1241.4 uses the existing snapshot s1241 (1241.3). The lesson date remains separate from the source reference dates.
proxy: 1206 reference extent · reconstruction: 1072–1249 · reconstruction: 1188–1259 · reconstruction: 1202–1249 · reconstruction: 1219–1222 · reconstruction: 1220–1249 · reconstruction: 1227–1259 · reconstruction: 1236–1249 · reconstruction: 1236–1259 · reconstruction: 1237–1240 · reconstruction: 1241 · reconstruction: 1241; regional outlines from pre-conquest 1206 principalities · reconstruction: 1241–1249 · reconstruction: April1241 · vector: 1056–1249 · vector: 1072–1249 · vector: 1072–1325 · vector: 1072–1374 · vector: 1111–1278 · vector: 1139–1235 · vector: 1139–1259 · vector: 1188–1259 · vector: 1188–1271 · vector: 1188–1284 · vector: 1188–1304 · vector: 1192–1325 · vector: 1192–1362 · vector: 1202–1249 · vector: 1202–1259 · vector: 1202–1374 · vector: 1202–1743 · vector: 1210–1249 · vector: 1210–1304 · vector: 1216–1249 · vector: 1220–1313 · vector: 1227–1249 · vector: 1227–1259 · vector: 1236–1249 · vector: 1236–1259 · vector: 1236–1293 · vector: 1236–1452 · vector: 1241–1249 · vector: 1241–1271 · vector: 1241–1278 · vector: 1241–1293 · vector: 1241–1313 · vector: 1241–1351 · vector: 602–1501 · vector: 936–1271
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