azovian

Updated: May 11, 2025

It is true the eastern knights often heard the names of Golden, of Blue, of Azovian and of other Ords; but they were not familiar with the civil wars of the Tartars. Nevertheless there was not one man in Europe, who had not heard about the terrible Tymur the Lame, or Tamerlan. This name was heard with no less fear than of old was the name of Attila.

Henryk Sienkiewicz - The Knights of the Cross: or, Krzyzacy