Nogai Khan: Difference between revisions

Nogai was born to Tatar (Tutar), a son of Terval who was a son of [[Jochi]]. He would rule his grandfather's [[appanage]] after his father died. After the [[Mongol invasion of Europe]], [[Batu Khan]] left Nogai with a tumen (10,000 warriors) in modern-day [[Moldavia]] and [[Romania]] as a frontier guard. He was a nephew of [[Berke]] Khan as well as Batu Khan and [[Orda Khan]], and under his uncle, he became a powerful and ambitious warlord.