…Kozel'sk are captured and burned.Kozel'sk becomes …
Years: 1238 - 1238
April
…Kozel'sk are captured and burned.
Kozel'sk becomes famous when its seven-year-old prince Vasily, son of Titus, has to defend the town against the army of Batu Khan.
The latter dubs it an "evil town" because its citizens had been fighting the attackers for seven weeks in a row, killing around four thousand enemy soldiers during the siege.
The citizens of Kozel'sk are greatly outnumbered and almost all of them die in battle.
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Years: 1238 - 1238
April
Locations
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- Slavs, East
- Rus' people
- Pskov, Principality of (Pskov Republic)
- Kievan Rus', or Kiev, Great Principality of
- Chernigov (Chernihiv), Principality of
- Smolensk, Principality of
- Turov and Pinsk, Principality of
- Mongols
- Novgorod Republic
- Ryazan, Principality of
- Vladimir-Suzdal, Great Principality of
- Galicia–Volhynia, Principality of
- Mongol Empire
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