However, the Mongol invasion left Korea in disarray and anomie, and these groups became nomadic.

However, appointees were at first restricted only to candidates of Manchu and Mongol ethnicity, until later open to Han Chinese as well.

However, the Chinese were not completely defenceless, and from AD 1234 until 1279 the Southern Song Chinese held out against the enormous barrage of Mongol attacks.

However, this battle essentially marks the end of a unified Mongol Empire.

However some turkologists argue that cossacks are descendants of native Cumans of Ukraine, who lived there long ago before Mongol invasion.

However, regarding the exact nature of the trebuchets used by the Mongol armies, recent research by Paul E. Chevedden indicates that the hui-hui pao was actually a European design, a double-counterweight engine that as Cheveddens shows had been introduced to the Levant by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II ( 1210 – 1250 ) only shortly before.

However, many Tangut families joined the Mongol Empire.

However, he was probably not consecrated in that position due to the Mongol invasion of Poland in 1259.

However, this seems to take on a different light in considering the somewhat paradoxical situation that after the Song Dynasty, China's ruling dynasties were often of Inner Asia ethnicities, such as Qidan, Ruzhen, and Mongol of the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties: according to historian John King Fairbank: the " influence on China of the great fact of alien conquest under the Liao-Jin-Yuan dynasties is just beginning to be explored.

However, the Mongol court exterminated some anti-Mongol princes such as Michael of Chernigov who had killed a Mongol envoy ( 1240 ).

However, his attempt to reassert Mongol control over Serbia was unsuccessful in 1330.

However, the Bohemian light cavalry was able to ambush a Mongol detachment.

However, when Subutai heard in 1242 that Grand Khan Ögedei had died the previous year, the Mongol army retreated again eastward.

However, it was not until under the direction of the Mongol ruler, Hulegu Khan, when the Mongols ascended to the fortress in December 1256 AD, that the Alamut library was lost.

However as winter approached, Hulegu took these gestures to be a means of delaying his seizure of the castles and on November 8, 1256, the Mongol troops quickly encircled the Maymundiz fortress and residence of the Imam.

However, from Gaza, an-Nasir Yusuf managed to induce the small garrison he left in the Citadel of Damascus to rebel against the Mongol occupation.

However, the attempted Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281 changed Japanese weaponry and warfare.

However, under Ögedei ( 1186 – 1241 ), several building projects were undertaken in the Mongol capital of Karakorum.

However, he revolted soon after that and fled to an island while the Mongol army invaded Liaoxi and Liaodong.

However, the Mongol leader Kitbuqa did not retreat, choosing instead to continue to fight, until he was eventually killed by veteran Mamluk warrior Jamal al-Din Akoush al-Shamsy.

However, the Bohemian cavalry easily fended off the Mongol detachment.

However, they were the main armament of the Mongol armies that conquered much of Asia and Europe ; their short profile compared to longer bows made them ideal for horseback use.

However, unlike any war that had been fought until then, the Mongol invasions presented a problem since this war, which was seen by most Japanese as a patriotic duty, did not take place against another warrior family, but against a foreign enemy.

However, Fujiwara princes remained close advisors, regents and ministers to the emperors for centuries, even until the 20th century ( Prince Konoe and Morihiro Hosokawa ).

However, and despite the fact that the Capetian kings often treated other princes more as enemies and allies than as subordinates, their royal title was often recognised yet not often respected.

However, when he became aware of the plot between the cardinals and the Norman princes to force the papal tiara on him, he would not enter Rome unless they swore to abandon their design.

However, Taharqa was able to return some years later and wrest back control of a part of Egypt as far as Thebes from the Egyptian vassal princes of Assyria.

However, several Protestant princes feared the Emperor, a devout Catholic, intended to keep Jülich-Cleves-Berg for himself to prevent the United Duchies falling into Protestant hands.

However, Tamar's own prestige and the expansion of patronq ' moba – a Georgian version of feudalism – kept the more powerful dynastic princes from fragmenting the kingdom.

However it has never been proven that the bones belonged to the princes.

However, when the Duke of Buckingham, one of Richard III's closest allies, entered the conspiracy, he yold her that the princes had been murdered.

However, these were crushed by the British and the princes loyal to them.

However in practice the princes of Orange of the House of Orange-Nassau, beginning with William the Silent, were always chosen as stadtholders of most of the provinces.

However, grand princes were not as elevated sovereign as later Western European kings, and thus they are treated lower than kings, particularly in later literature.

However, his hold on the monarchy was not secure, and the existence of the princes would remain a threat as long as they were alive.

However, if the princes were not already dead by the end of 1483, this of course removes any possibility that Buckingham, who was executed on 2 November 1483, could have murdered them.

However, by the beginning of the 14th century, not only the king of Denmark but the archbishop of Lund and even various north German princes all competed for control of the town.

However, in the German language ( which has separate words for royal prince, " Prinz ", and for sovereign prince, " Fürst "), the grand dukes of Lithuania and historic Russian states, as well as other Eastern European princes and later Russian dynasts, were referred to with the title " Großfürst ", a direct translation, rather than using the version " Großherzog ".

However, a grand prince was usually only primus inter pares within a dynasty, other princes of the dynasty were approximately as entitled to succession as the then ruler ( succession was for example through agnatic seniority or rotation ), and often other members of the dynasty ruled parts of the same realm as some sort of " sub-princes ".

However, it was evident that from time to time local revolts, led by local princes or kings, took place.

However, most monarchies do not have formal rules on the styling of princes consort, and a prince consort may have no royal title.

However, it continued to be governed by native princes until it was absorbed by the encroaching power of Pontus.

However, local Serbian princes continued to reign as suzerains to the Byzantines, maintaining total autonomy over their lands, such as the zhupanate of Rascia while only nominally being Byzantine vassals.

However, one immediate issue confronting Emperor Jing was the power possessed by princes of collateral lines of the imperial clan.

However, Liu Wu was given many privileges not given to other princes.

However, he soon panicked at the prospect of losing, and at the suggestion of Chao Cuo's enemy Yuan Ang, he executed Chao to try to appease the seven princes, to no avail.