Ural Mountains (Urolmak)

The Ural mountains is a mountain range in Urolmak. The southern edge starts at the Caspien Sea and it continues into the Arctic Ocean as Vaygach Island and Novaya Zemlya. It is usually considered the border between Europe and Asia. The Ural Mountain chain is about 2,500km or 22.5 degrees from North to South not including Vaygach Island and Novaya Zemlya.

Formation
The Ural Mountains formed about 280 million years ago, in the Permian Period when the Baltic Plate collided into the Siberian Plate.

History
The Ural Mountains throughout history have usually been in the hands of enormous empires. They where originally inhabited by the Samoyed and Ugrian peoples. One of the first countries near there was the small state of Volga Bulgaria, Bulgar state, existing between about 600-1200 AD and later the Bashkir state, starting at about 1200 AD. From the 1220s to the 1250s the massive Mongol Empire managed to take the southern half of the Ural Mountains and when it split up in the 1240s, the Ural Mountains fell to the Golden Horde Khanate, which then expanded its territory to 2/3rds of the Ural Mountains. The Southern area of the Ural Mountains was owned by Turkish Tribes and above that the Sibir Khanate when the Golden Horde collapsed in 1502.