How the Chinese «helped» Russia to get rid of the Mongols
Screex It is known that ancient China is the birthplace of inventions that had a significant push in the development of human civilization. Among these inventions, a special place is occupied…
The Mongol invasion of the Caucasus. Alanian kingdom
On the eve of the Mongol strike, the North Caucasus was a place of survival for warlike tribes. The most important was the Alanian kingdom. The last shard of the…
The most terrible battle with the Russians: at the storming of what city the son of Genghis Khan died
The battle of Kolomna is considered one of the largest battles of the Great Western campaign of the Mongol Empire. The campaign lasted six years - from 1236 to 1242…
Invincible nomads or Europeans who have forgotten how to win?
The Hungarians, also called Magyars, were the only representatives of the Finno-Ugrians who moved from the forest zone to the steppe zone. It is supposed that the reason for such…
The Khanate of the Ferocious
It seemed that by the XVII century the Mongols were no longer a significant figure on the political map of the world: they were fragmented, deprived of necessary natural resources,…
Military art of the Kipchaks
Many battles with the Kipchak cavalry ended in European defeats. For the first time nomads began to defeat civilization. Why? An unknown enemy When midnight came, Khan Bonyak rode alone…
Kipchaks against the Mongols . Steppe rage
The Kipchaks resisted the Mongol invasion for 20 years. Longest. For 20 years the Mongols stubbornly destroyed the Polovtsians (Kipchaks), those stubbornly resisted. There are two reasons for such fury,…
Kipchaks in China
As a result of tumultuous events in Central Asia in the eleventh century, the Kipchak people were scattered throughout the regions. A number of Kipchak groups headed eastward. At the…
From nomads to empire: the first conquests of the Ottomans
The birth of a new power on the wreckage of old empires In 1265, with the death of Hulagu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, a new phase in the…
Why were the Kipchaks called Polovtsians in Rus?
The Kipchaks became the progenitors of several modern Turkic peoples, although they did not survive as a separate people, but became part of other Turkic peoples. For example, the tribe…