Great Horde

Great Horde
اولوغ اوردا
Uluğ Orda
15th century–1502
Territories of the Great Horde
Territories of the Great Horde
StatusKhanate
CapitalSarai
Common languagesKipchak languages
Religion
Sunni Islam
GovernmentHereditary monarchy
Khan 
• 1459-1465
Mahmud bin Küchük
• 1481-1502
Sheikh Ahmed (last)
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Established
Mid 15th century
• Great Stand on the Ugra River
1480
• Sack of Sarai by the Crimean Khanate
June[1] 1502
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Golden Horde
Crimean Khanate
Astrakhan Khanate
Today part ofKazakhstan
Russia

The Great Horde (اولوغ اوردا, Uluğ Orda)[2] was a rump state of the Golden Horde that existed from the mid-15th century to 1502.[3][4][5] It was centered at the core of the former Golden Horde at Sarai on the lower Volga.[6]

Both the Khanate of Astrakhan and the Khanate of Crimea broke away from the Great Horde throughout its existence, and were hostile to the Great Horde. According to later Russian tradition, the retreat of the forces of the Great Horde at the Great Stand on the Ugra River opposed by Ivan III of Russia marked the end of the "Tatar yoke" over Russia.

  1. ^ Halperin 1987, p. 59.
  2. ^ Cahiers du monde russe. Vol. 65. Centre d'études sur la Russie, l'Europe orientale et le domaine turc de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. 2004. p. 62.
  3. ^ Kimberly Kagan (2010). The Imperial Moment. Harvard University Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-0-674-05409-7.
  4. ^ Bruce Alan Masters (2010). Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. Infobase. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7.
  5. ^ Martin 2007, p. xxiv.
  6. ^ Martin 2007, p. 348.