Steppe Vendetta, or Mongols against the Kipchaks
Screex Ibn al-Asir, a contemporary of the Mongol conquests, in his account of the first clash between the Mongols and the Kipchaks (1222) reports that Subedei-Bagatur and Dzhebe-noyon sent a letter…
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…
Kipchaks in the Caucasus: horses and Turks mixed in a pile
Relations with other peoples were, to put it mildly, unstable Yaroslav Pilipchuk continues his series of articles about key periods of Turkic history. Today's column of the Ukrainian historian in…
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…
The main archaeological mystery of the Volga region: the battlefield of Tamerlane and Tokhtamysh
600 years ago, 50 kilometers from Dimitrovgrad, the largest medieval battle in the territory of modern Russia took place. At the end of the XIV century, the Khan of the…
Iraq and Syria under Seljukid rule
Since ancient times, warlike Turkic tribes have led a nomadic way of life and engaged in cattle breeding on the vast steppe expanses from the mouth of the Danube to…
Turkic tribes within the Juchiye Ulus, their migrations and ethnic history
The Mongol conquests not only completely changed the political map of Eurasia, but also made certain adjustments in the ethnic map of settlement of nomadic tribes of Eastern Europe and…
Kipchaks in the history of Hungary
Kotyan Sutojevic (Hungarian: Kötöny; d. 1241, Pest) was a Cuman khan from the Terter dynasty (Terter-oba, Durut), which gave the famous khans Sokal and Bolush, who led the first Kuman…
Turkic period in the history of Kazakhstan (VI — XII centuries)
Turkic Kaganate - the first Eurasian empire of nomads The era of the Great Migration of Peoples (II - V centuries) significantly changed the ethnic and political map of Kazakhstan,…