Why did the Don Cossacks consider the Kalmyks to be a «fraternal people»
Screex 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…
The Battle of Ain Jaloud — the victory of the world of Islam over the Mongol sphere with the help of the Mamluks
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…
Seljuks — The collapse of the Konya Sultanate in the XIII century
Konya Sultan Kei-Khosrow II After the death of Alaeddin Keykubad I in 1237, the Konya Sultanate was the most powerful in Asia Minor. His vassals were the Trebizondian Greek Empire,…
The collapse of the First Turkic Khaganate
Despite the fact that Emperor Sui-Wen-di managed to disunite the Turks, and his son Yang di successfully continued this business, they had nothing to rejoice about. The internal system of…
The decline of the first Turkic Khaganate
In 581, the commander Yang Jiang overthrew the last minor emperor of the Tobak (proto-Mongol) dynasty of Northern Zhou. Yang Jiang founded the new Sui Dynasty, which would soon unite…
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.…
The Khitan state in Central Asia is a fragment of Chinese civilization
The Khitan (Karakitai) state in Central Asia - Western Liao was a unique phenomenon in the history of the region. Neither before nor after the Khitans, the ancient land of…