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Empire of the Golden Horde
Empire of the Golden Horde Mongol state comprising most of Russia, given as an appanage to Jenghiz Khan's oldest son, Juchi, and actually conquered and founded in the mid-13th cent. by Juchi's son, Batu Khan , after the Mongol or Tatar (see Tatars ) conquest of Russia. The name was derived from t... Read more
Sarai
Sarai , former city, S European Russia, near present-day Volgograd. Founded in 1241 by Batu Khan, it was (13th-15th cent.) the capital of the Tatar Golden Horde , to which the Russians paid tribute for more than 200 years. The city declined after Czar Ivan III threw off the Tatar yoke in 1480. ... Read more
Mongols
Mongols , Asian people, numbering about 6 million and distributed mainly in the Republic of Mongolia, the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China, and Kalmykia and the Buryat Republic of Russia. Traditionally the Mongols were a predominantly pastoral people, following their herds of horses, cattl... Read more
grand duchy of Moscow
grand duchy of Moscow state existing in W central Russia from the late 14th to mid-16th cent., with the city of Moscow as its nucleus. Its formation and eventual ascendancy over other Russian principalities and over the Tatars of the Golden Horde (see Golden Horde, Empire of the ) came about gradu... Read more
Batu Khan
Batu Khan , d. 1255, Mongol leader; a grandson of Jenghiz Khan. In 1235 Batu became commander of the Mongol army assigned to the conquest of Europe; his chief general was Subutai. Batu crossed the Volga, sending part of his force to Bulgaria but most of it to Russia. By 1240 he had Moscow and Kiev i... Read more
Tatarstan
Tatarstan , Tatar Republic , or Tataria , republic (1990 est. pop. 3,660,000), 26,255 sq mi (68,000 sq km), E European Russia, in the middle Volga and lower Kama river valleys. Kazan is the capital; other important cities are Almetevsk, Leninogorsk, and Bugulma. The low, rolling plain that m... Read more
Tatars
Tatars or Tartars , Turkic-speaking peoples living primarily in Russia. They number about 5.5 million and are largely Sunni Muslims. The name is derived from Tata or Dada, a Mongolian tribe that inhabited present NE Mongolia in the 5th cent. First used to describe the peoples that overran parts ... Read more
Ivan III
Ivan III or Ivan the Great, 1440-1505, grand duke of Moscow (1462-1505), creator of the consolidated Muscovite (Russian) state. He subjugated (1478) Great Novgorod , asserted his sway over Vyatka, Tver, Yaroslavl, Rostov-Suzdal, and other territories, and checked the eastward expansion of Lith... Read more
Kazan
Kazan , city (1989 est. pop. 1,094,000), capital of Tatarstan , E European Russia, on the Volga. It is a major historic, cultural, industrial, and commercial center. Manufactures include chemicals, explosives, electrical equipment, building materials, consumer goods, and furs. Kazan's port and ship... Read more
Mongolia
Mongolia mŏn-gō´lēe, mŏng- , Asian region (c.906,000 sq mi/2,346,540 sq km), bordered roughly by Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, on the west; the Manchurian provinces of China on the east; Siberia on the north; and the Great Wall of China on the south. It now co... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Horde"

Golden Horde
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History GOLDEN HORDE An anachronistic and misleading term for...contemporary to the existence of the Golden Horde, the term Orda alone was used to apply...which has been translated as "Golden Horde," first appears in Russian sources of...
Empire of the Golden Horde
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Empire of the Golden Horde Mongol state comprising most of Russia...of ). Under the Empire of the Golden Horde, the Russian principalities retained...early 14th cent. the empire of the Golden Horde adopted Islam as its official religion...
Nogai
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...d. 1299), the founder of the Golden Horde. Sunni Muslim, Nogai khanate was formed...from the political orbit of the Golden Horde. Initially, Nogai lands stretched from...1552) and Astrakhan (1556), the Nogai Horde divided into three parts: the Great Nogai...
Kazakhstan and Kazakhs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Tatars, formerly of the Golden Horde, and then of the Uzbeks. By...Uzbek Kazakhs. Yet the White Horde lingered, civil strife and...arriving from the collapsing Nogai Horde. Having merged during the 1600s...nomadic confederations known as "hordes" or zhuzy (dzhuzy): the...
Ugra River, Battle of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...campaign led by Ivan III against the horde of Khan Ahmad, in October-November 1480. Relations between the Great Horde and Moscow entered a crisis in the 1470s...History wrote of the dissolution of the Horde after the death of Ahmad (1481) and...
Kazaks
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...tribal unions, or hordes): Greater, Central, and Lesser. The Greater Horde occupied much of what...Kazakstan. The Lesser Horde occupied the land between...three historic Kazak hordes. Written Kazak, which...dialect of the Central Horde. Examples of the Kazak...
Australian aborigines
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...territorial claims. In half of the hordes the men are divided among the...on. Sons live in the same hordes as their fathers, so the composition of hordes alternates every generation...familial solidarity within the horde as a whole. Aborigines maintain...
Basil I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...financial resources, Basil visited the Horde and bought patents for the principalities...Basil I broke relations with the Golden Horde and stopped paying tribute. In 1408 Moscow...blow from emir Edigey, the ruler of the Horde, who besieged the capital for three weeks...
Islam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...xD6; zbek Khan, the ruler of the Golden Horde, meant that political overlordship of...relationship between Muscovy and the Golden Horde began to shift, Muscovite princes found...prominent of the successor states of the Golden Horde, and began a long process of territorial...
Donskoy, Dmitry Ivanovich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...was overthrown in a coup, and the Golden Horde split into eastern and western sections...Mamai who had taken control of the western Horde and claimed authority over all the Rus...princes. Growing divisions within the Horde and internecine conflicts in Lithuania...

Dictionary entries related to "Horde"

Primitive Horde
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...during prehistoric times. The horde was a link between the state...The notion of the primitive horde was described in Darwin's...comparatively small groups or hordes within which the jealousy of...1903). He referred to the horde as a "cyclopean family...
Golden Horde
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Golden Horde The TARTARS of the Mongol KHANATE of the...x2013;1480). The word “horde” derives from the Mongol...it was from Moscow that resistance to the Horde started. Defeat by TAMERLANE in 1391 seriously...
horde
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English horde / hôrd / • n. 1. chiefly...group of people: he was surrounded by a horde of tormenting relatives. ∎...army or tribe of nomadic warriors: Tartar hordes. 2. Anthropol. a loosely knit small social...
Horde
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms Horde a great company, esp. of savage or uncivilized people. See also , , . Examples: horde of barbarians: of Gauls, 1838; of gnats; of Goths, 1695; of insects, 1834; of misers — Lipton, 1970; of pirates, 1837; of regicides...
Mongolian hordes technique
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet Mongolian hordes technique Originally used to describe the process of carrying out large software projects by hiring huge numbers of programmers. It is now occasionally used to describe BRUTE FORCE ATTACKS on computer networks.
Totem/Totemism
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Darwinian assumption of primitive hordes, each under the domination...narcissistic" father of the primal horde seized all the women and killed...murder of the father of the horde. The fulfillment of this act...phylogenetic memory traces of the horde. Likewise, group psychology...
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...its validity in the case of the primitive horde, as a structure, as discussed in Totem...ideal and the ego that they impose: the horde, the matriarchy, and the totemic clan...conflict. It should be noted that the horde of Totem and Taboo and that
Parricide
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...a premeditated murder by the primitive horde, the homicide in question might be considered...father and so made an end of the patriarchal horde" (1912-1913a, p. 141). In a single...myth of the murder of the father of the horde arguabl
Totem and Taboo
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...hypotheses: the existence of a primitive horde whose father is omnipotent; the murder...formula (the murder of the father by the horde) than studied or understood as a whole...traces. But the forms assumed by the primal horde and the totemic clan, as well as the foundational...
McCrea, Joel
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...RKO; 1930—first featured film role in The Silver Horde ; followed by a succession of starring roles; later worked...as Marco); So This Is College (Wood) 1930 The Silver Horde (Archainbaud) (as Boyd Enerson); Lightnin' (King...

Thesaurus entries related to "Horde"

horde
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English horde • noun  a horde of people/penguins on the beach synonyms : crowd, mob, throng, mass, large group, multitude, host, army, pack, gang, troop, drove, crew, band, flock, swarm, gathering, assemblage.
multitude
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...great/large number, a great/large quantity, a host, a horde, a mass, a swarm, an abundance, a profusion; scores, quantities...crowd, gathering, assembly, congregation, flock, throng, horde, mob; formal concourse.   3. political power in...
gang
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus gang • noun   1. a gang of tough-looking boys synonyms : band, group, crowd, pack, horde, throng, mob, herd, swarm, troop, cluster; company, gathering; informal posse, bunch, gaggle, load.   2...
drove
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus drove • noun   1. a drove of cattle synonyms : herd, flock, pack.   2. they came in droves synonyms : crowd, swarm, horde, multitude, mob, throng, host, mass, army, herd.
many
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...a great/good deal of, a lot of, plenty of, countless, innumerable, scores of, crowds of, droves of, an army of, a horde of, a multitude of, a multiplicity of, multitudinous, multiple, untold; several, various, sundry, diverse, assorted...
collection
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...shoppers synonyms : group, crowd, body, assemblage, gathering, throng; knot, cluster; multitude, bevy, party, band, horde, pack, flock, swarm, mob; informal gang, load, gaggle.   3. a collection of Victorian dolls synonyms : set...
host
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...heap, mass, pile, ton, number; literary myriad.   2. a host of movie stars synonyms : crowd, throng, group, flock, herd, swarm, horde, mob, army, legion, pack, tribe, troop; assemblage, congregation, gathering.
myriad
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...synonyms : a multitude, a large/great number, a large/great quantity, scores, quantities, a mass, a host, droves, a horde; informal lots, loads, masses, stacks, scads, tons, hundreds, thousands, millions, gazillions. • adjective...
pack
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 3. a pack of youngsters synonyms : crowd, mob, group, band, troupe, troop, party, set, clique, gang, rabble, horde, herd, throng, huddle, mass, assembly, gathering, host; informal crew, bunch. • verb   1. she helped...
herd
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...shepherd, cowherd, cattle-man, cowman, herdsman, herder, drover.   3. a herd of people synonyms : crowd, horde, multitude, mob, mass, host, throng, swarm, press.   4. ignore the tastes of the herd synonyms : masses, mob...

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Kazakhs by the horde. (social division in Kazakhstan)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 6/4/1994; 700+ words ; ...divide themselves into hordes. According to legend...sons descended the Great Horde, the Middle Horde and...is asserting itself. Horde politics works much like...the Middle and Little Hordes combined to vote against Mr Nazarbaev's Great Horde candidate. The canny...
'I can't follow you on this horde-clan business at all': Donald Thomson, Radcliffe-Brown and a final note on the horde.
Magazine article from: Oceania; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...though they are members of the horde are not members of the clan...who have married into other hordes. But while they may change their hordes by marriage, they can never...therefore, that although the horde is the war-making group...
HORDE FESTIVAL ECLECTIC AND ENIGMATIC.(TIMEOUT)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 7/24/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...the festival is the musical message. The HORDE tour rolls into Riverbend Tuesday, with...enigmatic lineup to date. The six-year-old HORDE (Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere...eight hours of festival attendance. Most HORDE-goers will probably agree on one brutal...
Head of the Horde; Returning to festival, Blues Traveler plotsharmonica divergence.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 7/26/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...there." And those attending Thursday's Horde Festival at Great Woods can rest assured...will bring along some harmonicas. (The Horde lineup also includes the Barenaked Ladies...which they've been playing in their Horde sets), they're not going to miss the...
HORDE FEST COMING TO SPAC.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/29/1993; 698 words ; ...the '90s? No, it's the second annual HORDE Festival -- which stands for Horizons...midnight hour. "I got tagged with creating HORDE," admits Blues Traveler's vocalist...Bell explains, "The whole concept of HORDE is to present honest, live improvisational...
MEMC Board Elects Klaus von Horde CEO.
Business Wire; 2/18/1999; 700+ words ; ...effective immediately and that Klaus von Horde, now President and Chief Operating Officer...the reins of leadership to Mr. Klaus von Horde, who joined MEMC in 1997 and is presently...advanced products and services. Klaus von Horde has the right background we need to lead...
Private Horde Wins A.G. Vanderbilt
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/10/2003; 379 words ; ...SPRINGS, N.Y. [image omitted] Private Horde came from two spots back in the stretch...Handicap by five lengths at Saratoga. Private Horde, ridden by Jason Lumpkins, covered the...Classic, ridden by Ray Ganpath. Private Horde, who went off at 10-1, trailed in third...
HORDE OF PLENTY '95 EDITION OF THE TOURING ROCK REVUE OFFERS THE MOST EXCITING VARIETY YET.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/10/1995; 660 words ; ...teamed up to headline this summer's HORDE Festival, making it a sort of ``Black and Blue Tour, Mach II.'' The HORDE fest (which stands for Horizons of...yet. And considering that previous HORDE tours have helped launch the careers...
HORDE SOUNDED LIKE ROCK FESTIVAL, BUT IT LACKED MUSICAL FOCUS.(Entertainment)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 9/7/1998; ; 670 words ; Though it failed to draw hordes of concertgoers, the '98 H...its generous musical lineup, HORDE (which stands for Horizons...granddaddy of '90s rock festivals. HORDE may have suffered from being...concert season. More important, HORDE lacked a clear musical focus...
Juliet Kronovet Hordes
Magazine article from: Washington Jewish Week; 8/26/2004; 439 words ; Juliet Kronovet Hordes, the youngest of eight siblings, grew...39 plus 56!" party in her honor. Hordes moved from New York to Rockville in 1998...late husband of 65 years, Rabbi Lawrence Hordes. When she arrived at Rockville's Ring...