2018, vol. 6, no. 4. VIth International GHF

2018, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 865-866

   ON THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN HORDE FORUM,
DEDICATED TO THE 750TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TALAS KURULTAY

International Golden Horde Forum is an academic event of the Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences held every two years with the participation of leading world experts in the field of medieval studies of the Turkic-Tatar history. The Forum has long become the main platform for the coordination of research work on this issue.
The Center for the Study of the History of the Golden Horde and the Tatar Khanates is the permanent organizer of the Forum. Since the first years, the structure of an academic meeting has repeatedly proved its expediency and effectiveness. Conferences, seminars and round tables dedicated to individual research disciplines – numismatics, source studies, archaeology and other relevant areas – are traditionally organized as part of its program. More global topics are also consi­dered, such as: civilizational features of the Golden Horde culture, climatic and epidemic factors in the Eurasian processes, the Silk Road as a channel of inter-civilization interchange, etc.
The next, the Sixth Forum is scheduled for April 2019. The journal “Zolotoordynskoe obozrenie=Golden Horde Review” acts as a co-organizer of this event and some of the talks will be published on its pages.
The Sixth Forum will be dedicated to the 1269 kurultai, which legally confirmed the dissolution of the Mongol Empire, which had occurred de facto by that moment. This momentous event took place in the Talas Valley, in the Yangi Taraz region, on the territory of modern Kyrgyzstan. In the spring of 1269 (667 AH), the princes Qaidu, Barak and Berkechar (as a representative of Mengu-Timur) gathered at the kurultai and concluded an agreement according to which each of the rulers was declared independent. From that moment on, Mengu-Timur assumed the title of Khan, and Latin sources began to call the rulers of the Golden Horde emperors.