Oghuz Turks — Nine-shot Turks
Screex 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…
Are Crimean Tatars Nogais or Kazakhs? Are the Crimean Tatars part of the Tatars?
Some Nogai propagandists on the Internet make the absurd claim that the Crimean Tatar people do not exist (supposedly they are three different peoples, and the steppe Crimean Tatars, in…
How did Attila really die?
The Romans knew very little about the Huns. In the 4th century A.D., the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus described this people as follows: "The Hun tribe lives outside the Maeotian…
History of Uzbekistan / 5 / Turks again / The confrontation between the Karakhanids and the Ghaznavids
Mahmud Ghaznavi sought to conquer India. The campaigns brought huge spoils, but when the main forces went on a campaign, the Karakhanids and the Sazu tried to grab off pieces…
Genghis Khan’s warriors and modern Mongols: why they are completely different peoples
Scientists and travelers who visited Mongolia were often surprised by the apparent discrepancy between the historically established image of the great conquerors who rallied around the legendary Genghis Khan and…