Mongol Empire · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Siege of Kiev (1240)
On the Mongol Empire map as “The sack of Kiev”
6 Dec 1240 — The mother of Rus cities, four hundred years old, refuses surrender and is stormed; the last defenders die under the collapsing roof of the Church of the Tithes. Six years later a papal envoy counts two hundred houses standing. Remember Kiev.
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- Mongol invasion of Europe (chapter 6 of Mongol Empire)
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- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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