The story of Tamerlane: how the war with the Golden Horde began
Screex 1391 The night steppe smelled of cinders. The hot wind drove the ashes, the ashes flashed with a billion fiery moths. The earth groaned and trembled, the old shepherd took…
Murad I: blinded his son and fell in battle — the story of the first of the Ottoman family to call himself Sultan
A small Ottoman force first crossed into Europe in 1352, at the end of Bey Orhan's reign. The Turks managed to capture an outpost, but had not yet begun any…
The story of Tamerlane: from famine to the throne
He marched through the world like samum - a fiery desert wind, scorching everything in his path. His name was Timur (Iron), but history remembers him as Tamerlane - Timur…
The Fall of Khorezm. How the ruler’s conceit ruined a rich empire overnight
Jalal ad-Din Manguberdi - the last Shah of Khorezm Khorezm was a rich empire through which the Great Silk Road ran. Now the territory of the ancient state is divided.…
Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde: the birth of a warrior
1352 He was born in a year when the steppe howled with hunger. His mother died before she could whisper his name. His father, the Oglan of Mangyshlak, ruler of…
A little-known factor in the fall of Khazaria. The Guzes against the Khazar Khaganate
In the IX-X centuries there was a severe drought in the Eurasian steppes, and it was a serious change of climate in the region. The people of the Guzes suffered…
The personal guard of Batyi Khan: what is known about the elite of the Mongols?
After Genghis Khan's death in 1227, his sons moved away from their father's approach to army formation and began to include the troops of the conquered. This was inevitable, pure…
Legendary cruelty of the Mongols during the conquest of Khorezm
China was not the only region where Genghis Khan left his bloody mark. After a convincing victory over the Jin Empire, the Great Khan set his eyes on the rich…
What did the legendary Hun leader Attila look like, and who was he by nationality?
Attila is rightly called one of the great conquerors. Under the leadership of the Hun leader were united numerous Eastern European tribes, and the Western Roman Empire could not recover…
The clan system was the
basis of social organization for any of the Eurasian nomadic tribes, not only for the Mongols. The steppe was divided according to clan origin, positions under the supreme rulers were…