Béla IV of Hungary grants asylum in …
Years: 1239 - 1239
Béla IV of Hungary grants asylum in 1239 to the Cumans and their prince Kuthen, who had earlier tried unsuccessfully to organize Russian resistance to the Mongols.
Béla accepts the Cumans' pledge of forty thousand warriors to the defense of Hungary.
Locations
People
Groups
- Hungarian people
- Slavs, East
- Rus' people
- Cuman people, or Western Kipchaks, also called Polovtsy, Polovtsians)
- Hungary, Kingdom of
- Mongols
- Mongol Empire
