Batu Khan: the mystery of death of the only conqueror of Russia
Screex Batu Khan (Sain Khan) (1207-1255) - the Mongol commander, grandson of Genghis Khan, the second son of Djuchi, the senior son of Genghis Khan, the conqueror of the western and…
Paitsza Uzbek Khan
Paitsza of Uzbek-khan against the background of Sarai-Batu The paizza of Uzbek Khan is unique, it was made from 1313 to 1341 during his reign. It is one of the…
Who are the Mughals and the Great Mughals?
After the Western Campaign of 1236-1243, a significant part of the Mongol armies returned back to the previously captured lands of Khorezmshah. The locomotive and driving force of ethnic histories…
Uzbek (Ozbek) Khan (1312/13-1341/42) — ruler of the Golden Horde
Uzbek (Ozbek) Khan (1312/13-1341/42) - ruler of the Golden Horde. Under Uzbek Khan Islam was declared the official religion of the Golden Horde. Biography Uzbek (Muslim name Sultan-Giyas ad-Din Muhammad)…
Steppe Vendetta, or Mongols against the Kipchaks
Ibn al-Asir, a contemporary of the Mongol conquests, in his account of the first clash between the Mongols and the Kipchaks (1222) reports that Subedei-Bagatur and Dzhebe-noyon sent a letter…
Kazakhs in Paris two hundred years ago
The history of mankind is a multifaceted and curious phenomenon. Everyone knows the circumstances of the Russian Patriotic War against Napoleon Bonaparte. At the same time, our compatriots know little…
Desht-i Kipchak, or Kipchak Khanate
The time and circumstances in which the term "Desht-i-Kypchak" appeared, which we have replaced with "Kypchak el" or "Kypchak Khanate", have always been ambiguously interpreted in historical literature. Some authors…
The Kyrgyz Kaganate was a Turkic state on the Yenisei River
In the IX century, the Kyrgyz, one of the numerous Turkic tribes of Central Asia, created a huge state that stretched from the Yenisei to East Turkestan and from the…
What role the Kipchaks played in the history of Azerbaijan
As it is known, the Turkic world is divided into two main ethno-linguistic communities - Oghuz and Kipchaks (Kipchaks). Both Oguzes and Kipchaks played a significant role in the history…
Kipchaks in the Caucasus: horses and Turks mixed in a pile
Relations with other peoples were, to put it mildly, unstable Yaroslav Pilipchuk continues his series of articles about key periods of Turkic history. Today's column of the Ukrainian historian in…