Cossacks — heirs of the Khazar Kaganate
Screex The powerful medieval Khazar state disappeared almost without a trace. For a long time it was generally considered semi-mythical. The 500-year history of the vast and powerful state in the…
The Uyghur Khaganate as a phenomenon of the Great Steppe
The nomadic states of Central Asia regularly replaced each other, but never violating the most important principle of the nomadic world - the priority of nomadic life over sedentary habitation.…
KIPCHAKS: AN ETHNOS AND ITS NAME
The term "Kipchak", known in medieval Arab-Persian historiography, changed its content in the course of history: in the VIII-XI centuries it was an ethnonym of a tribal community, then, starting…
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…
Scythian sword akinak
The tribes of the Scythians were considered one of the most powerful forces in the territory of West Asia, the Caucasus and the Northern Black Sea region. Their main weapon…
Nomads in early medieval Tokharistan
Tokharistan and the Middle Ages … At the end of the 4th century and the first quarter of the 5th century, under the onslaught of nomadic tribes - Ephthalites, Hionites,…
Where did the first war in human history take place?
It is likely that the first war in human history took place about five and a half thousand years ago. At that time, the city of Hamukar was wiped off…
Hungarian Polovtsians/Kuns
As is known, the medieval kingdom of Hungary included, in addition to Hungary, the territories of all of modern Slovakia and part of Romania.436-7 The data given here about Kuns…
Desht-i-Kipchak is a territory of steppe liberty
In the middle of the VI century on the steppe expanses of Central Asia a powerful state was formed, the main population of which was made up of various Turkic-speaking…
Desht-i Kipchak in the XI — early XIII centuries
The XIII century in world history was marked by a unique event - the formation of the Mongol Empire. As V. V. Bartold (1869-1930) noted, never before or after the…