Timur, Tokhtamysh, and Edigu in Crimea: Historiographical Tradition and Historical Reality »
Journal: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Year: 2015

In the history of the Crimean peninsula, the least studied is a period of the late Middle Ages. To the greatest extent it concerns issues related to the state of the Crimean nomadic and, in particular, of the Crimean ulus of the Golden Horde. Researchers have paid insufficient attention to the study of a period of internal wars of the late 14th – early 15th centuries. Historiographical tradition speaks of several military expeditions undertaken by Timur, Tokhtamysh, and Edigu to the Crimea: in 1