Monday, October 16, 2017

1483, Tartars



          This year, the Russian cities were looted one after another,
and this began last year, in 1482, when the Tartar hordes,
                 [destroyed Kiev, of champagne I would say the frother...

I wondered who those Tartars were,
                                                      [I had no idea, and then,
I thought there must be others that do not know,
     [so I decided to write a verse about what I had read about them.

Tartars were a variety of Turco-Mongol semi-nomadic empires,      
          [where the name along would cause terror in the hearts and minds as well, 
because they knew if the Tartars did not kill them,
                                            [they would lead them to the slave banks for the sell. 

They controlled the region known as Tartary,
                                  [the vast region from Mongolia, and Manchuria,
up to Pontic-Caspian steppe,
                                   [Volga-Urals, Caucasus, Turkestan and Siberia.

The Mongol Empire, established under Genghis Khan in 1206,
allied with the Tartars who were intermingled with them,
                              [and participated in all battles and conflicts.
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''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis - CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS//
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* Kiev, became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after the Battle at Blue Waters in 1362, when Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, beat a Golden Horde army. During the period between 1362 and 1471, Kiev was ruled by Lithuanian princes from different families. By order of Casimir Jagiellon, the Principality of Kiev was abolished and the Kiev Voivodship was established in 1471. Lithuanian statesman Martynas Goštautas was appointed as the first voivode of Kiev the same year; his appointment was met by hostility from locals.
The city was frequently attacked by Crimean Tatars and in 1482 was destroyed again by Crimean Khan Meñli I Giray.


* Golden Horde, In the early 15th century the Golden Horde weakened and then disintegrated, and independent khanates, such as the Crimean Khanate, the Kazan Khanate, and the Astrakhan Khanate, emerged on its peripheries. The Great Horde (the nucleus of the former Golden Horde) proved to be the most detrimental to Ukraine: it repeatedly invaded the Kyiv region, Podilia, Volhynia, and even Galicia, in 1444, 1447, 1450, and 1457. In 1482 it sacked Kyiv. The eventual fall of the Great Horde came after the death of its last leader, Khan Shah-Ahmet, in 1505.


Drawing of Mongols of the Golden Horde outside Vladimir
presumably demanding submission, before sacking the city


Map of Tartaria (1705)



 ELEGHOS... at history 


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