Which Eastern peoples have a «foreign» name?
Screex Each nation has at least several names used: for itself, for everyone, for certain neighbors. The Germans, for example, have almost more of them than anyone else. For us they…
Where the Khazars disappeared: The nationality of Batu Khan
It is believed that the mother of Khan Batu – Uki-khatun or Shukinia – was the great-granddaughter of the last Khazarian khagan Joseph II. Thus, Batu turns out to be…
Derbets: What happened to the main Kalmyks clan?
Now Derbets are a subethnos or a tribe within the Kalmyk people, depending on which definition is closer to you. Their exact number is difficult to name, the approximate estimate…
The first independent ruler of the Crimea under the Mongols was the Seljuk Sultan Kei-Kavus II
The Seljuk Turks, back in the period of their power, at the beginning of the XIII century, tried to lay their hands on the Crimea. In the 1220s, the Konya…
Who are the dervishes in Islam? Do they exist in Azerbaijan?
In short, these are members of the Sufi brotherhood, a religious order (Tariqa) in Islam – especially people of lower degrees of initiation, ordinary participants, so to speak. Their high-ranking…
The Battle of the Three Kings: How the Turks and Moroccans defeated the Portuguese and changed the course of history
After Algeria recognized Ottoman suzerainty, Morocco remained the last independent Islamic state in North Africa. It did not at all seek to fall under the rule of Istanbul, for which…
The Bektashi in the Ottoman Empire are the patrons of the Janissaries who fell with them
People tend to represent major movements within Islam as separate denominations, the difference between which is obvious and fixed at the administrative level. But in fact, this is a relatively…
Timariots are landlords of the Ottoman Empire. How did they differ from the Sepoys?
It's easy: a sipah is a mounted warrior, a traditional Turkic cavalryman of the Ottoman Empire, and a timariot is a landowner. He became the first only when he went…
Bayezid II – the forgotten grandfather of Suleiman the Magnificent
Bayezid II is one of the most forgotten and unpopular Ottoman sultans. It cannot be said that he was a bad warrior or an inept administrator, but the only thing…
Which nations resisted the Ottoman Empire?
Few people remember this now, but the Ottoman Empire began with 500 soldiers who fled from the Mongol invasion, who received lands in Anatolia from the Seljuk sultans. These people…