In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire and the Sheibanid state formed close allied relations despite their distant location from each other. As it often happens, they were united by…
After the collapse of the Arab Caliphate, various Islamic dynasties ruled the territories of the South Caucasus and Azerbaijan. As a rule, they were originally of Arabian origin, but were…
The modern republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are partially located on the territory of the ancient state of Khorezm, which was first mentioned in sources from the 7th century…
Baba Sultan is one of the most reviled figures in Uzbek history. Despite the fact that he had all the rights to the Bukhara throne as the eldest in the…
Formation of the Karaman beylik The founder of the Karamanogullar dynasty (1256-1474) is considered to be the leader of the Turkmen militia Karaman-bey (died in 1261 or 1263). Karaman at…
Byzantine Empire and Byzantine are fictitious names invented by Habsburg historians to avoid calling the legitimate Roman Empire as such and to support their claim that the state led by…
At the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, the Ottoman Empire, formerly an inviolable stronghold, whose name frightened both peasant and queen, which was the eternal headache of many European and…
By the 17th century, the sprawling Russian kingdom had already dealt with all the khanates around it. It was Moscow that became the main force in the region of Eastern…
Before the Russian conquest, there were three states in the settled part of Central Asia: the Khanates of Khiva and Kokand, and the Emirate of Bukhara. In each of them…
Genghis Khan's eldest son was Juchi, Juchi's eldest son was Orda-Ezhen. In the understanding of the Mongols of that time, primogeniture was an important, though not obligatory, argument in favor…
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