The husband of Queen Tamara, David Soslan, is an Ossetian or a Georgian
Screex In 1155, the king of Alanya Khuddan gave his daughter Burdukhan Burdukhan (died before 1184), also known as Bordohan, was an Alan princess and Queen consort of Georgia as the…
Why did the Don Cossacks consider the Kalmyks to be a «fraternal people»
Genghis Khan's empire collapsed long ago and sank into oblivion. However, the descendants of his warriors still live among us. And in order to meet them, it is not necessary…
Tsarina Tamara and the Kipchaks in Georgia: how the Polovtsian cavalry defeated the Seljuks, and the Polovtsian vigilantes married a Georgian princess
The Kipchaks were a Turkic people who lived in the vast territories of Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. In the XIII-XIV centuries, they migrated and settled…
The four greatest Asians. Chapter I. The Empire of the Immortal Lion
I am opening a series of articles about the four rulers of Asia, so significant that even these publications will not be able to fully reveal them to modern man.…
Which Eastern peoples have a «foreign» name?
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…