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Definition of Golden horde
1. Noun. A Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century.
Definition of Golden horde
1. Proper noun. The Mongol invaders who invaded Europe in the 13th Century (1237) and were eventually stopped by Tamerlane in 1395. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golden Horde
Literary usage of Golden horde
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1903)
"The Horde d'Or simply means the 'Horde of the Isthmus/ Onr ' golden horde ' is
a blundering translation of La Horde d'Or, ..."
2. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"The incursions of the Tartar tribes were, ver, soon resumed; and in 1125 the Kin
or len Tartars—'the golden horde'—gained the minance and made serious ..."
3. The Czar, His Court and People: Including a Tour in Norway and Sweden by John S Maxwell (1848)
"The Khans of the golden horde—Tartars and Tartar dwellings—Religion and ...
called, from the gorgeous splendor of the tents, the Khan of the golden horde. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"He fixed his headquarters on the Volga, and there set up his Golden Tent from
which the horde acquired the name of the golden horde. ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1900)
"The tribes ruled over by all these brothers and their descendants were included
under the " golden horde," which derived its name from the Sir Orda, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Having inflicted this terrible blow on the golden horde, Timur distributed rewards
... One solitary fragment of the golden horde, the khanate of Astrakhan,, ..."
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