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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.

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Sarai, Astrakhan/Russia Archaeological remains near Volgograd. The name meant ‘Palace’ or ‘Court’, a Turkic word. Sarai was the capital of the Mongol Golden Horde, the Kipchak Khanate, between 1242 and the mid‐15th century and at its foundation the word meant little more than ‘Encampment’. This was known as Sarai Batu after Batu (d. c.1255), a grandson of Genghis Khan^†, who commanded the Mongol invasion of Europe in 1240. In due course, Sarai Berke, or Sarai al‐Jadid ‘New Sarai’, further up the Volga River was founded.

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