The title “sultan” comes from the Arabic language and means something between “power” and “authority”. When there was no single Muslim state, the Arab Caliphate, the sultans were those rulers…
In brief, it sank and disintegrated. Tamerlane, to all appearances, sought to abandon the Mongolian method of transferring power and establish a strict majorate - a system of succession from…
The story of the fall of medieval Muslim Baghdad, the end of the Abbasid Caliphate, as a result of the Mongol invasion in 1258, despite the scale of the tragedy…
Subedei and Dzhebe - Genghis Khan's best Mongol generals The long campaign of Subedei and Dzhebe After spending the summer of 1220 near Nessef, Genghis Khan led his army to…
Everyone who is even slightly interested in history has heard about the Golden Horde. And how not to hear, if so many dramatic and important for our past events are…
Genghis Khan used to say that he had 4 wolves of war: Djebe, Khubilai, Jelme and Subedei. The reason why few people know about Subedei is that the shocked Europe…
The ancient tribes of the Huns have long attracted the attention of historians. China built the Great Wall to protect itself from their raids, and the Roman Empire paid them…
Periodically, certain centers of power emerge in the world. Today it is Russia, the United States and China. “Yesterday” - the Soviet Union, the United States, Great Britain and Germany.…
A few kilometers from the small town of Damghan in northern Iran, the ruins of the Girdkuh fortress in the Elburz mountain system attract attention. The place of erection was…
Even after Genghis Khan's death, the Mongol Empire was actively expanding into different corners of the Eurasian continent. First, the great khan's business was continued by his sons, after which…
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