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…
In the summer of 1499, the whole of Samarkand was alerted. The signal trumpets of karnai were blaring, the sultan's guards were hastily lining up at his palace, hastily armed…
Actually, initially the Tatars are far from being one people. These are several separate ethnolinguistic groups that are quite close in their language. The latter was obtained during the Golden…
Genghis Khan was a great military commander and political leader who united many tribes in Mongolia and created the Empire of the Great Mongols. He became the first great khan…
Genghis Khan's empire collapsed long ago and sank into oblivion. However, the descendants of his warriors still live among us. And in order to meet them, it is not necessary…
Now Derbets are a subethnos or a tribe within the Kalmyk people, depending on which definition is closer to you. Their exact number is difficult to name, the approximate estimate…
In short, these are members of the Sufi brotherhood, a religious order (Tariqa) in Islam – especially people of lower degrees of initiation, ordinary participants, so to speak. Their high-ranking…
After Algeria recognized Ottoman suzerainty, Morocco remained the last independent Islamic state in North Africa. It did not at all seek to fall under the rule of Istanbul, for which…
In 1256, the Mongols began a Western campaign in the Middle East. Hulagu, the brother of the great kagan Mongke, commanded the campaign. In February 1258, with the help of…
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