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Early Modern era · 1480

Great Stand on the Ugra River

The Great Stand on the Ugra River (Russian: Великое стояние на Угре) or the Standing on the Ugra River, also known as the Battle of the Ugra, was a standoff in 1480 on the banks of the Ugra River between the forces of Akhmat Khan of the Great Horde, and Grand Prince Ivan III of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.

Great Stand on the Ugra River
Great Stand on the Ugra River · Anonymous Russian manuscript illuminators, 1560-1570s Facial Chronicle (Illustrated Chronicle of Ivan the Terrible) (in 10 volumes: pdf , pdf with translation ) Public domain image, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
1480
Where
Ugra
Era
Early Modern

Topics

Mongol Empire1206 – 1368Russia1223 – today

Before and after

Treaty of Constantinople1479Ottoman conquest of Otranto1480 – 1481Show on timeline

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