Kaiser-i Rum: were the Ottoman sultans Byzantine emperors
Screex For the Ottoman sultans, Rome did not end in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople, but passed into their possession On May 29, 1453, an Ottoman army led by the…
Cage life and child marriage: 10 crazy Ottoman laws and customs that would seem wild to us today
The traditions of the times of the Ottoman Empire are nowadays most often a source of bewilderment and disgust. We tell you what is wrong with them. The Sultan's Harem…
Abylai Khan
Abylai (Abylmansur) - an outstanding statesman, politician, diplomat, unifier of Kazakh lands. He was born in 1711. His grandfather, also named Abylai, came from the noble generation of Chingizids Zhadig.…
Political portrait of Abylai Khan
The XVIII century entered the history of the Kazakh people as the era of Ablai. Among his contemporaries such remarkable figures as Tole-bii Alibekov, Kazbek-bii Kazdauisty, Kart Kanzhigali Bogenbai, Abulkhair,…
IN SEARCH OF A HOMELAND. WHERE DID THE ANCESTORS OF THE HUNGARIANS COME FROM?
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Hungarians celebrated the "Millennium of the Homeland", i.e. the thousandth anniversary of the Hungarians' arrival in the Danube basin. The fishermen's bastion…
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…
Origin of the Nyman people
The Kazakhs trace their ancestry … from the people of the Turks. … The Turks are known by many names, but we are from the Uigur branch. Shakarim Kudaiberdy-uly. Genealogy…
Abu Nasr Al-Farabi — Kipchak of Otrar
On the outskirts of the Assyrian city of Haleb, where the route of the Great Silk Road passes, a lonely, poorly dressed, elderly man stood timidly, leaning on his staff.…
Modern Kazakhs and the Kipchak heritage
The Kipchaks (Kipchaks, in Old Russian chronicles - Polovtsians, in European sources - Kumans) were a Turkic-speaking people, mainly engaged in nomadic cattle breeding and crafts. The ancestors of the…
On the Naimans who inhabited the territory of Mongolia in the XII — early XIII centuries
In the XII century the territory of the Mongolian steppes was inhabited by a number of tribes - Hamag-Mongols (indigenous Mongols), Tatars, Merkits, Oirats, Kereits, Naimans. To begin with, we…