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Siege of Kiev (1240)
On the Mongol Empire map as “The sack of Kiev”
6 Dec 1240 — Kiev, the four-hundred-year-old mother of Rus cities, refuses to surrender and is stormed. Its last defenders die when the roof of the Church of the Tithes collapses over them. Six years later, a papal envoy counts two hundred houses still standing.
When 6 Dec 1240 Type Site of memory Chapter Mongol invasion of Europe (chapter 6 of Mongol Empire)Atlas The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294 Also in WW2 SITE OF MEMORY · 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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