"Everything has an end and everything has a beginning" - not without reason so says a very famous saying. And the Mongol Empire - a powerful steppe power, the greatest…
The Kalmyk Khanate, which existed from 1633 to 1771, was the successor of such irreconcilable opponents of Russia as the Nogai Horde and the Oirat Khanate. But history has arranged…
Not much information has been preserved about this people. The history of this branch of the Huns is very complicated, and it began at the spurs of the Altai Mountains.…
We know very little about the Khanate of Khiva. However, it is one of the "robber" states, which raided each of its neighbors for slaves. The reason for its conquest…
The Bukhara Khanate is one of the three Uzbek states in Central Asia that existed from the 1500s to the 1920s, but for the last half century under Russian protectorate.…
In other times nomads of Iranian origin occupied half of southern Siberia. And in the east, their possessions reached what is now Western China. Not to mention their homeland and…
The Ottoman Empire always looked westward and came to the Caucasus much later. The reason was not strategic interests in the region, but the need to oppose the Shiite Safavid…
In general, I was shocked to read this description, but you can't take words out of a song (in this case, the chronicle of the Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi (c.…
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,…
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