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Özbeg Khan's rule in the 1320s

Type Event Region Eurasian steppe Time 1320–1330

In the 1320s Golden Horde khan Özbeg (r. 1313–1341) consolidated suzerainty over the Volga-Black Sea steppe and Russian principalities, promoted full…

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  1. 1320–1325Sarai · RussiaIn the early 1320s Özbeg Khan continued Islamization policies, appointing Muslim bureaucrats and judges, reorganizing tribute and investiture systems for the Russian principalities, and maintaining relatively stable court order in Sarai, making the Golden Horde a power center in the western steppe where Islamic law and Mongol custom coexisted.
  2. 1326–1330Crimean Peninsula · CrimeaIn the later 1320s the Golden Horde maintained trade and diplomatic contacts with Genoese and Venetian trading posts and Byzantium by controlling Crimea and the Sea of Azov passage, while competing with the Ilkhanate in the Caucasus direction; by the late 1320s foreign relations were overall stable but harbored latent conflict.

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