Draft:Battle near Koydanova.

Battle between army of Grand Duchy Lithuania and army of mongols-tatars near city Koydanova (modern name of city Dzerzhinsk).

1248 year the tsar of Zavolzhsky was tsar by name Balaklai, and has sent the ambassadors to the great prince Skirmunt, that that gave him a tribute and kept his baskaks in those cities, as well as from those cities there was a tribute at his [predecessors], princes Russian. And prince great Skirmunt has not wanted to execute it, and those ambassadors of it has ordered to cut off noses, lips, ears and has let back. And that tsar the next year has collected with many forces and hordes Tatar, and has gone on the Russian land, and has caused much evil to the Russian land. /And the great prince Skirmunt, having gathered all his troops, met him on his frontier, in Koidanov, and defeated that tsar and all his Tatar forces defeated him, and killed the tsar Balaklai himself, and after such a great victory went to the Rus land and took the cities of Mozyr, Chernigov, Starodub, Karachev , and having gained the victory returned back, having kept everyone intact Date of battle 1249. <ref>https://www.vostlit.info/Texts/rus/Bychovec/frametext.htm


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