By the middle of the 14th century, as the Genghisids faded into the shadows in Iran, China, Transoxiana and Southern Russia, representatives of the Jochi family branch came to replace…
While the Genghis Khanid families were established in Persia, China, and Transoxiana, and appeared and disappeared in southern Russia, other branches of the same family fell behind and were forgotten…
In terms of the vastness of the territory, the Golden Horde was the largest state entity of the Middle Ages. Let us recall that the state of the descendants of…
Uzbek took power in the Golden Horde as a result of the struggle of its khans with the khans of the White Horde. He belonged to the part of the…
In the 12th century, the tribes that later became known as the Mongols occupied vast steppe territories from the Amur River in the east to the upper reaches of the…
The conqueror of the Naimans, Genghis Khan, who relied on an alliance with the Keraite king, whom he had saved from certain death, seemed now able to establish his authority…
Mamluks: Slave Warriors Chapter 1 The Tulunid Kingdom and the New Army Recruitment SystemPart 1 Mamluks: Slave Warriors Chapter 1 The Tulunid Kingdom and the New Army Recruitment System The…
The Mamluks (translated as "belonging") were a military quasi–caste in medieval Islamic Egypt, recruited by the Ayyubid dynasty from young slaves of mainly Slavic, Georgian, Circassian and Turkic origin. The…
Like the Abars and Mukrins, the Turgesh (more correctly Turkesh, Chinese – Tukishi) did not belong to either the bodily, Chui, or the Turkic (Turkyut) group proper. The first information…
It is quite possible that the Hunnic empire, which was an alliance of 24 tribes and was divided into two parts (eastern and western), was formed long before the beginning…
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