They were unstoppable. Having broken out of the South Russian steppes, the Aryan tribes flooded the steppes and forest-steppes of Eurasia up to the Urals and Western Siberia. It seemed…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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