Archaeological Sites of the Moksha River Region in the Golden Horde Period

The Moksha Region was a significant region for the Golden Horde. There was a city that arose in the 13th century – Mohshi (Naruchal), which was the main “beled” for the entire area. In the last third of the 14th century, the administration of the region moved lower along the Moksha to a site that referred to in archaeology as Ityakovo settlement. It is possible that it was called Temnikov since the last third of the 14th century. The presence of archaeological sites shows that the region was inhabited primarily by the Mordovians, who retained the primacy as the most numerous ethnic group of the Moksha Region during the Golden Horde period. A phenomenon characteristic of the Middle Ages is evident, where the managerial and economic elite is formed from one ethnic group, and the dependent population from another. Since the 14th century, the advancement of the Russians in the Moksha Region was noted

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