The military art of the Oirats (Dzungars)
Screex The Oirat conquests of the 17th century can be considered the third largest in scale after the Mongol conquests and the Turkic expansion of the 1st millennium. In the west,…
What happened to the state of the Oghuz Jabgu, the ancient state of Azerbaijanis, Turks and Turkmens?
The state of the Oguz jabgu (or Oguz El) arose after 766 and existed until the middle of the 11th century, before it was conquered by its neighbors, and the…
What happened to the Western Turkic Khaganate after the collapse of the unified state of the ancient Turks?
According to the Turkic-Mongolian tradition of the High and Late Middle Ages, power over the state was not inherited by the eldest son of the previous monarch, but by the…
Oghuz Turks — Nine-shot Turks
The Turks had additional names, Nine-shot Turks were the Turks living on the banks of the Ishtar River and on the banks of the Ob and Yenisei rivers. There were…
Asia’s greatest mystery: Where is the body of the conqueror of the world hidden?
The last path of the Great Khan In 1227, during a campaign against the Tangut state of Xi Xia, the great conqueror Genghis Khan left this world. According to the…
History of Uzbekistan / 8th / XVI-XVIII centuries / Ashtarkhanids (Janids) /History of the rise and rule of the Uzbek dynasty
The Ashtarkhanids, also known as the Janids, were an Uzbek dynasty whose rule played an important role in the history of Central Asia. They ruled the Bukhara Khanate from 1599…
How did the Seljuk Turks fight with the knights of Europe?
The Seljuks defeated the Arab East with a Turkic battle strategy and weapons. And they became a surprise for the crusader knights of the Holy Land. The formidable Turks struck…
Scientists told about the origin of the Kazakhs of the Middle Zhuz. New facts
Thanks to modern research, the exact time of the appearance of the Kazakhs as a homogeneous ethnogenetic community has been clarified - it falls on the period between 1230-1340, that…
Slavery in the Great Horde of Desht-i-Kipchak (Crimean Khanate)
According to Sharia, only a prisoner of war captured in the lands of Christians or Jews could be a slave in the Great Horde. A slave's child is also a…