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Yuri Danilovich made the town of Mozhaisk and other lands a part of the Muscovy. He had been fighting with the Prince of Tver Mikhail Yaroslavich for the title of the Grand Prince of Tver since 1304. He received backing from the metropolitan Peter and in 1314Events June 24 Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce beat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence. The Mappa Mundi (Map of the World) is made. It showed Jerusalem at the centre, as decreed in the Bible. Births Deat formed an allianceAn alliance is a treaty between nations, business partners or individuals, for their mutual advantage. Such as NATO, SEATO and the Warsaw Pact. They may be considered a form of confederation. A military alliance is an agreement between two or more countri with NovgorodFor other cities named Novgorod see Novgorod (disambiguation). Novgorod is a city in North-Western Russia. Since 1998 the official name of the city is Velikiy Novgorod Great Novgorod . It is the capital of Novgorod Oblast. The city lies along the Volkhov against Tver. After having spent almost 2 years in the Golden HordeThe Golden Horde (also known as Kipchak Khanate was a Tatar state established in present day Russia by Batu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan. It was one of the four Mongol successor kingdoms in the wake of the Mongol empire, the others being the Ilkhanate and wed Uzbeg KhanUnder the rule of Uzbeg Khan ( 1312- 1341) the Golden Horde reached its zenith. His state under his rule converted to Islam. The Uzbeks took their name from him.'s sister Konchaka, Yuri secured khan's backing in his struggle with Tver. In 1317, he returned from the Horde with the TatarThe term Tatar may refer to A member of the Tatars Tatar language Native people of Tatarstan. See also: Crimea, Turkic peoples, Turkic languages, Tatar invasions. army led by Kavdygai and approached Tver. However, Yuri's army was defeated and his brother Boris and his wife were taken prisoners. Yuri fled to Novgorod and then the Horde, where he persuaded the khan to assassinate his rival Mikhail Yaroslavich (killed in 1318Events Pope John XXII declares the doctrines of the Franciscans advocating ecclesiastical poverty erroneous End of the reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan Emperor Go-Daigo ascends to the throne of Japan Births Pope Urban VI Deaths 1318.).

In 1322, Yuri led the army of Novgorod to fight the Swedes and a year later they signed the Treaty of Orekhovo.

In 1325, Yuri was killed in the Horde by Dmitry, son of Mikhail Yaroslavich.