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ID: 6004395
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6004395
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sarai (lost settlement)  Sarai (lost settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 47 36 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 47.6000  decimal degrees
Long: 046 48 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 46.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Located along the Akhtuba River in the Russian province of Astrakhan, the city was once the center of the Golden Horde. Documented as a large city by the mid-13th century, the capital of the Golden Horde eventually moved to New Sarai. The old city itself lasted into the 15th century.

Names:
Sarai (preferred,C,V)
Saray (C,V)
Old Sarai (C,V)
Sarai-Batu (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Russia (nation)  ........  Russia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Astrakhanskaya Oblast’ (oblast)  ............  Astrakhanskaya Oblast’ (oblast) (P)
Hierarchy of Sarai (lost settlement)  ................  Sarai (lost settlement) (P)

Place Types:
lost settlement (preferred, C)
historic site (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Golden Horde .......... (former nation/state/empire)
..................  (World, Asia, Mongol Empire) [6002288]
..................  mid-13th century-1361
near/adjacent to ....  Selitrennoye .......... (inhabited place)
..............................  (World, Asia, Russia, Astrakhanskaya Oblast’) [1059290]

Sources and Contributors:
Old Sarai..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Ciociîltan, Mongols (2012) 44
....................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 352
Sarai..........  [VP]
..............  May, Mongol Empire (2017) 33-34
Sarai-Batu..........  [VP]
.......................  Ciociîltan, Mongols (2012) 44
Saray..........  [VP]
..............  May, Mongol Empire (2017) 33
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Ciociîltan, Mongols (2012) 44
..................  May, Mongol Empire (2017) 33-34
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 352
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  May, Mongol Empire (2017) 33-34

 

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