Pages: 174-176

The established opinion of the Russian historiography runs that the border between the Mamai and the Volga Hordes was fixed along the Volga River. A collection of coins dating to the Great Internecine Strife (“velikaya zamyatnya”) period from the Vodyanskoe hillfort site was studied. These data made it possible to conclude that the town on the left-bank Volga area may be related to the Saray region (the Volga Horde domain). Besides, there is a number of indications as to earlier ulus borders along the Don and a minor annalistic evidence concerning an interesting episode in the course of the war between Timur-Khodja and Mamai. All this allows raising the problem of a possible location of the border between the Mamai and the Volga Hordes along the Don River.

Keywords: Volga-Don region, Golden Horde, Great Internecine Strife, Mamai, Vodyanskoe hillfort, numismatics

Information about author:

Irina Yu. Lapshina. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Volgograd Regional Museum. Address: Lenin Ave., 7, Volgograd, 400131, Russian Federation 
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