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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A small Ottoman force first crossed into Europe in 1352, at the end of Bey Orhan's reign. The Turks managed to capture an outpost, but had not yet begun any…
He marched through the world like samum - a fiery desert wind, scorching everything in his path. His name was Timur (Iron), but history remembers him as Tamerlane - Timur…
Jalal ad-Din Manguberdi - the last Shah of Khorezm Khorezm was a rich empire through which the Great Silk Road ran. Now the territory of the ancient state is divided.…
1352 He was born in a year when the steppe howled with hunger. His mother died before she could whisper his name. His father, the Oglan of Mangyshlak, ruler of…
In the IX-X centuries there was a severe drought in the Eurasian steppes, and it was a serious change of climate in the region. The people of the Guzes suffered…
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