The invasion of the Khazars in Romania. Khazar trace in the Balkans
Screex In the history of Khazaria there is one interesting and little known episode of the invasion of the Khazars in Romania. Khazar Khaganate, which existed from VII to X century,…
Not Tajiks, not Turks, not Pashtuns, not Mongols: who are the Charaymaks, the last nomads of Afghanistan?
The Charaymaks are one of the peoples of Central Asia, the last nomads of the region. In Afghanistan, their number is estimated at about one and a half million people.…
Karachay. Where can you meet Polovtsians now?
Karachais are now 220 thousand people - compared to the peoples of the neighboring republic, they are half as many as Kabardins, but twice as many as Balkars. The Karachais…
Crimean Tatars: which peoples they are descendants of
The Crimean peninsula has never been empty. During wars, invasions, epidemics or great exoduses, its population did not disappear completely. Up to the Tatar invasion of the Crimean lands settled…
Horde Ezhen — the eldest son of Juchi refused to give up power over the Golden Horde
Already soon after the proclamation of the ruler of all Mongols Genghis Khan allocated to his first-born son Dzhuchi a separate ulus - at that time under this word was…
The Battle of the Pass: How the Arabs gave Central Asia to the Turks
Central Asia is Central Asia because Iran is located to the south of it, nomadic peoples to the north, and India and China to the east. Therefore, when attacked by…
Jungar-Manchurian wars
With its Genghis Khan-style policy of conquest, the Dzungar Khanate could not help but clash with the other strongest power of its time, the Manchu Qing Empire. Both of these…
On the «borderless» alliance between the Ottoman Empire and the Sheibanid state
In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire and the Sheibanid state formed close allied relations despite their distant location from each other. As it often happens, they were united by…
The Chobanid dynasty: how did it rule Azerbaijan after the Mongols?
After the collapse of the Arab Caliphate, various Islamic dynasties ruled the territories of the South Caucasus and Azerbaijan. As a rule, they were originally of Arabian origin, but were…
Great Khorezm in the process of Islamization lost its culture and language, becoming a small Khanate of Khiva
The modern republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are partially located on the territory of the ancient state of Khorezm, which was first mentioned in sources from the 7th century…