Mongol inroads into Hungary in the thirteenth century

In Zimonyi’s view, the Mongolian account reflects an anachronism. In any case, his convincing demonstration that Buri did attack Transylvania in 1241 and took German miners from the region into his service represents an effort to clear up some of the ongoing confusion in scholarship about these events. In the last decade, Sarolta Tatar devoted an entire study to summarize the routes of the Mongol entry into Hungary, systematically comparing and attempting to synthesize a variety of Persian, Chinese, Rus’, and Latin source accounts. Hungary was reputed and perceived by the Mongols to be quite a powerful, massive kingdom. The Mongol leadership evidently held such notions for a long time as is indicated by an ultimatum demanding surrender sent from Ogedei Khan to Bela IV a few years before the invasion. In short, the northern route passed through wide tracts of inhospitable territory that could suffer extreme temperatures and which had experienced the upheaval of conquest in 1242

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• El Imperio mongol y la formación de Occidente. Una actualización historiográfica

  Open Access•Antonio García Espada•Studia Historica Historia Medieval•2024

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