Daniel of Galicia resists Mongol shadow
1217
Prince Daniel of Galicia-Volhynia, a cultivated Rus ruler who would later crown himself king, navigated the threatening presence of the Mongol empire on his eastern frontier. His capital Kholm became a center of stone architecture and German immigration as he looked west for allies. He corresponded with the pope, received a royal crown from Rome, and built fortifications in a style more European than Slavic.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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