Kazakh mythology about Naymans
Screex The second mythology of Kazakhs is that Naimans are Segiz Oguzes. Where do they get such nonsense at all? Let's look at the haplogroups of Manjur, Koreans and Kazakh Naimans.…
Captive of Genghis Khan
Khansha Terken closed her eyes: what to say to her young granddaughters about their fate? Their fate was the same - to become Genghis Khan's captives. After all, a woman…
Why Ottoman slave traders preyed on women of age
When it comes to the slave trade in the Ottoman Empire, most people think of the Crimean Tatars and Algerian pirates who preyed on young Christian girls, who were then…
How much was a young, beautiful slave girl worth in the Ottoman Empire? Who could buy her?
The Islamic religion allows a master to have intimacy with his slave girls. Therefore, any pretty slave was not purchased for work, but to please the body and soul of…
What became of the Ottoman Empire’s most famous executioner?
The executioner Kara Ali is only mentioned in “The Magnificent Century”. Despite the desire to tell the story of such a celebrity, the screenwriters did not go for such a…
Was Tamerlane a good individual fighter?
"Timur was tall and of good build, as if he belonged to the remnants of the Amalekites ... mighty in strength and courage ... sturdy in body, broad shouldered, with…
Tamerlane’s campaign against the Golden Horde
In 1395-1396. Timur carried out a second invasion of the Horde lands. This time he moved not to the eastern uluses devastated by the previous invasion, but to the rich…
Who will wake up Tamerlane: a curse that became a reality
Among ancient artifacts and tombs filled with mysteries, one of the most intriguing stories is related to Emperor Tamerlane and his tomb in Samarkand. The curse placed on his rest…
A Mongol warrior of the Golden Horde was unearthed in Moldavia
One of the main arguments of deniers of invasion of Batyi to Russia is absence of archaeological finds of the Mongolian war. Mol nothing was found, so the Mongols were…
Who built the pyramids out of skulls?
The great conqueror Tamerlane built pyramids of the skulls of the people he killed after his victories. The tallest of them had 70,000 skulls.Tamerlane was called “the ruler of the…