The story of Tamerlane: how the war with the Golden Horde began
Screex 1391 The night steppe smelled of cinders. The hot wind drove the ashes, the ashes...
Murad I: blinded his son and fell in battle — the story of the first of the Ottoman family to call himself Sultan
A small Ottoman force first crossed into Europe in 1352, at the end of Bey...
The story of Tamerlane: from famine to the throne
He marched through the world like samum — a fiery desert wind, scorching everything in...
The Fall of Khorezm. How the ruler’s conceit ruined a rich empire overnight
Jalal ad-Din Manguberdi — the last Shah of Khorezm Khorezm was a rich empire through...
Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde: the birth of a warrior
1352 He was born in a year when the steppe howled with hunger. His mother...
A little-known factor in the fall of Khazaria. The Guzes against the Khazar Khaganate
In the IX-X centuries there was a severe drought in the Eurasian steppes, and it...
The personal guard of Batyi Khan: what is known about the elite of the Mongols?
After Genghis Khan’s death in 1227, his sons moved away from their father’s approach to...
Legendary cruelty of the Mongols during the conquest of Khorezm
China was not the only region where Genghis Khan left his bloody mark. After a...
What did the legendary Hun leader Attila look like, and who was he by nationality?
Attila is rightly called one of the great conquerors. Under the leadership of the Hun...
The clan system was the
basis of social organization for any of the Eurasian nomadic tribes, not only for the...