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==Early life under Batu and Berke==
Nogai was born to Tatar (Tutar), a son of Terval who was a son of Jochi. He would rule his grandfather's [[appanage]] after his father died. After the [[Mongol invasion of Europe]], [[Batu Khan]] left Nogai with a tumen (10,000 warriors) in modern-day [[Moldavia]] and [[Romania]] as a frontier guard. He was a nephew of [[Berke]] Khan as well as Batu Khan and [[Orda Khan]], and under his uncle, he became a powerful and ambitious warlord.
===Second Mongol invasion of Poland===
In his later years, Berke began to delegate more and more responsibility to his promising nephew. Nogai's leading role first appears, along with [[Talabuga]], under famous Mongol general [[Burundai]] as a battle commander in 1259/1260
Nogai was a Tengrist like the majority of the Horde and remained to be Tengrist after the conversion of Berke Khan,which owned him reward from his people and the Mongol nobility, but he later had to convert to Islam because of political pressure, but remained religious tolerant as he never advocated Islam among his people and his main wife was a christian. It is not known exactly when his conversion occurred, probably soon after Berke converted, in the 1250s. His name was included on the list of new converts sent by Berke to the Mameluke Sultan [[Baibars|al-Malik az-Zahir]] in 1262/1263. Almost a decade later, in 1270/1271, Nogai himself indicated that he embraced Islam in a letter to the [[Sultan of Egypt]].<ref>Vásáry, p.71</ref>
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