波蘭的Tatar穆斯林簡介
The
year was 1395.
Tokhtamysh
and his
Tatar Muslim army were rushing to the northeast across the vast steppes of
Ukraine,
unsure of what was to come.
The
journey was long and strenuous, but the warriors were disciplined nomads
skilled in horsemanship and accustomed to hardship.
Tokhtamysh's
army was escaping the battlefield of the Terek river, looking for safety after
a humiliating defeat at the hands of Tamerlane, the ruler of the Timurid
Empire.
For
the Golden Horde - Tokhtamysh's khanate, this was the beginning of a prolonged
decline.
The army
was heading to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which under Vytautas the Great was in a
period of its greatest territorial expansion, looking to take control of lands
in the east.
