Daily Medieval

History tells stories of Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes and Kublai Khan meeting Marco Polo, but Batu Khan is a name that is less-known b...

After King David VI Narin of Georgia took the western half of the kingdom and seceded from Georgia , he became King David I of Imereti (West...

Several years ago I mentioned the Codex Cumanicus , a lexicon of the Cuman language designed to help Christian missionaries preach to the Cu...

The name "Golden Horde" for the northwestern section of the Mongolian Empire is the English translation of a borrowed phrase from ...

The death of Möngke Khan in 1259 led to the Toluid Civil War, a fight between two of the remaining sons of Toluid over who would succeed Mön...