Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · War
1391
Timur defeats Tokhtamysh at Kondurcha River
1391
On the Volga steppe, Timur's disciplined cavalry shattered the Golden Horde's army in a battle involving perhaps 200,000 warriors on both sides. The victory broke the back of Mongol power in Russia and opened the way for Moscow's slow rise from vassal principality to sovereign state. Tokhtamysh fled north and never recovered his authority.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.