Mongol Conquest of the South Urals in the 13th Century
The paper considers the Mongol conquest of the Volga-Urals region during the Mongol campaign of 1236. Upon analyzing narrative sources the author surmises the Trans-Ural Bashkirs. voluntary submission to invaders prior to 1236. Bashkir tribes in the Cis-Urals attempted to resist the Batu Khan army but were routed and had been under taxation of various kinds for years. The territory of Bashkortostan turned out to be divided between two uluses of the Golden Horde.