Where did the first war in human history take place?
Screex It is likely that the first war in human history took place about five and a half thousand years ago. At that time, the city of Hamukar was wiped off…
Mongol conquest of Khorezm
Led by Genghis Khan, the Mongols defeated Kuchluk's troops and established diplomatic relations with Sultan Mohammed II. The exchange of embassies took place while the sultan's army was moving along…
The main archaeological mystery of the Volga region: the battlefield of Tamerlane and Tokhtamysh
600 years ago, 50 kilometers from Dimitrovgrad, the largest medieval battle in the territory of modern Russia took place. At the end of the XIV century, the Khan of the…
Iraq and Syria under Seljukid rule
Since ancient times, warlike Turkic tribes have led a nomadic way of life and engaged in cattle breeding on the vast steppe expanses from the mouth of the Danube to…
Turkic tribes within the Juchiye Ulus, their migrations and ethnic history
The Mongol conquests not only completely changed the political map of Eurasia, but also made certain adjustments in the ethnic map of settlement of nomadic tribes of Eastern Europe and…
Kipchaks in the history of Hungary
Kotyan Sutojevic (Hungarian: Kötöny; d. 1241, Pest) was a Cuman khan from the Terter dynasty (Terter-oba, Durut), which gave the famous khans Sokal and Bolush, who led the first Kuman…
Turkic period in the history of Kazakhstan (VI — XII centuries)
Turkic Kaganate - the first Eurasian empire of nomads The era of the Great Migration of Peoples (II - V centuries) significantly changed the ethnic and political map of Kazakhstan,…
KIPCHAK ON THE THRONE OF EGYPT
To move forward, one must take a few steps backwards. Chinese folk wisdom. Maurice Davidovich Simashko, People's Writer of Kazakhstan, was the first to tell about Beibars in our country…
Bashkirs of the Kipchak family
Historically, the Bashkir people consisted of more than 40 territorial-clan subdivisions (clan volosts), the members of each of which went back to a single ancestor. Russian lexicographer Vladimir Dahl wrote:…
All the troubles of the Polovtsians, the unfortunate Kipchaks.
In the article "How Russians and Polovtsians became allies against the Mongol-Tatars" we wrote that "the Polovtsians always gave Russians only trouble: they attacked, killed, burned, robbed, deceived, let down,…