Blue Horde (1330s)

Name: Blue Horde (1330s)
Start: 1330
End: 1340

Type Event Region Steppe Time 1330–1340

The Blue Horde (Kök Orda) was the eastern wing of the Golden Horde, holding the steppe from the Urals to the Irtysh, traditionally opposed to the Whi…

Timeline

1338Steppe from the Urals to the Irtysh · SteppeAround 1338, Blue Horde tribes still nomadized east of the Urals to the Irtysh basin, maintaining a tribal confederation structure as the Golden Horde's eastern wing, bordering and occasionally interacting with the Chagatai Khanate in Transoxiana.
1330–1340Sarai and the Ural steppe · RussiaDuring Özbeg Khan's reign he strove to unify the Golden Horde's eastern and western wings; in the 1330s the Blue Horde tribes both participated in the great khan's court's military and diplomatic affairs and preserved their nomadic autonomy, laying groundwork for the later White–Blue Horde split.

Sources

The Golden Horde: The Encyclopedia of Empire — Peter Jackson (2016)
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: Golden Horde https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/