The mystery of Batyi’s invasion — where are the burials of the Mongols?
Screex The Western campaign of the Mongols is known in detail, many annals and chronicles have been written about it in 20 countries in 15 languages. Starting with eyewitnesses of the…
The Enigma of Steppe Warriors: Why the Pechenegs Ignored Hygiene but Obsessively Cleaned Their Ears
Hygiene paradoxes: a cultural phenomenon of Pecheneg society The hygienic practices of the Pechenegs represent a unique historical phenomenon that has long puzzled researchers. Archaeological data and written sources of…
Subbotnik or death: how did khashar, the Mongols’ most feared tactic, come to be?
The word “khashar” is translated from Arabic as “joint free labor. And in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, since Soviet times, it has been used in the sense of “subbotnik”. That is,…
Akinji: what became of the Cossacks of the Ottoman Empire?
The Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks bore a Turkic name, lived a Turkic life, used Turkic tactics in war, and even by blood were largely Turkic, as bride-kidnapping from neighbors was…
How were the Egyptian Mamluks able to defeat the Mongols?
Not many countries managed to defeat the Mongols in battle at the peak of their power. And almost all of them lost the war anyway, resigned to defeat and paid…
How did the Hungarians defeat the Mongols?
The Middle Danube is the last large section of the Eurasian steppe, which stretches westward from Manchuria itself. Therefore, equestrian peoples have historically strived here: the Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns, Avars,…
What a tragedy for Baghdad the invasion of the Mongols turned out to be
The capital of the Caliphate, the City of Peace, the pearl of the Abbasid state, the cultural and political center of Islamic society, built in an amazing way in the…
The Merkits: what became of the Mongol tribe that stole Genghis Khan’s wife?
In 1155 (or 1162), the Mongol prince Yesugei was hunting in the steppe with his nukers. He accidentally met a noble merkit Eke-Chileda, who was on his way home with…
What were the Mongol ruling dynasties, with the exception of the Genghisids?
The power of Genghis Khan and his descendants was so great that a political concept arose among the Turkic-Mongol peoples - only representatives of the “golden family” could rule the…
The story of Tamerlane: how the war with the Golden Horde began
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…