The emergence of the Iranian Huns, the Chionites
Screex 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.…
Not Tajiks, not Turks, not Pashtuns, not Mongols: who are the Charaymaks, the last nomads of Afghanistan?
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.…
Karachay. Where can you meet Polovtsians now?
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…
They are their own masters
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…
Do Siberian Tatars consider themselves Tatars?
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…
The ethnic essence of the Shaker of the Universe — Genghis Khan
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…
Why did the Don Cossacks consider the Kalmyks to be a «fraternal people»
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…
Derbets: What happened to the main Kalmyks clan?
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…
Who are the dervishes in Islam? Do they exist in Azerbaijan?
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…
The Battle of the Three Kings: How the Turks and Moroccans defeated the Portuguese and changed the course of history
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…