#tartars

Kazan: the Tartar Kazan khanate was a splinter state of the disintegrating Golden Horde, occupying territory of the former Volga Bulgars and neighboured by the Astrakhan khanate to its south-west.

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Ivalyo of Bulgaria started life as a peasant. But he knew how to take advantage of opportunity when it presented itself. Ivalyo lived while King Constantine Tich was on the throne, and Bulgaria was struggling both with the Tatar invaders and an economic crisis. Ivalyo put together a peasant army that would defend Northern Bulgaria against the Tatars and defeated them in numerous battles.

King Constantine was grateful (probably) but peasant armies are usurping the throne's monopoly on force, so his gratitude did not stop King Constantine from leading his army to put down the peasants. And in a surprise twist, the king's army lost. They lost so badly that Constantine was killed by Ivalyo!

What followed next was even more unusual: Queen Mary decided to marry Ivalyo in 1278, effectively making him king, and in charge of handling ongoing threats from the Tartars and the Byzantines. King Ivalyo did what Queen Mary had hoped. He won battles against the Tatars and against the Byzantines with his army of peasants. But eventually King Ivalyo met a foe he could not defeat, and he decided to try teaming up with Nogai, a Tartar leader. Who not only declined to join forces but killed King Ivalyo. Thus came to an end an illustrious career.

Grand Tartary was In North America

Grand Tartary was in North America is an appropriate post, since it’s been a lot of talk about Tartary (Tartaria) lately, since this was an advanced civilization that was suppressed by the powers that be. Tartary on old maps is in Asia near Russia (see post images). What if America was Asia Major and Moscow, which is the capitol of Russia, was in North America by Fancisca (France)? This evidence…

Lyra Silvertongue meeting Sir Charles Latrom Lord Boreal

Today is Thursday, January 24th, the 24th day of 2019. There are 341 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

1529: Tatars bind John of Kazan in Kazan (now a Russian Federation city but then under control of the Mongols) and mortally wound him with swords when he refuses to convert to Islam.

1539: Belgium issues a mandate against the Mennonites whom it harrasses because of their Anabaptist beliefs.

1597: The Dutch rout a Spanish force at the Battle of Turnhout, confirming their resolution to never again submit to Spanish rule.

1722: Harvard appoints theologian Edward Wigglesworth to fill the newly created Thomas Hollis chair at Harvard College, the first divinity professor in America. By casting doubt on Calvinism, Wigglesworth will become a force for the development of Unitarianism in New England. Yale will be founded to counter his liberalism.

1831: The London Provisional Committee issues a circular to the secretaries of the county associations of Independent churches in England and Wales, explaining the objects of a proposed union and inviting the associations to send deputies to a meeting to be held in London in May for considering the scheme.

1844: Fanny J. Crosby, who will become a notable hymnwriter, is one of seventeen students from the New York Institute of the Blind who give a concert for the United States Congress, and she recites a thirteen stanza original composition calling for the creation of institutes for the education of the blind in every state. This draws “calls for an encore” and earns the congratulations of John Quincy Adams.

1886: Thomas De Witt Talmage celebrates his seventeenth year as pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. A noted orator, he is one of the leading pastors of his day and a crusader against vice in New York City.

1975: Frederick Donald Coggan in his enthronement sermon as Archbishop of Canterbury calls for more people to put themselves forward for ordination.