The Khazarians have an unusual fate. They now live in a mountainous area of central Afghanistan. These people have a Mongoloid appearance and speak the language of the Iranian group.…
The Barlas belonged to the Hamag Mongols, a northeastern confederation of nomadic tribes that would eventually unite their people into a single entity and become the core of the Mongol…
The evolution of steppe warriors: the transformation of the Dzungaria military arsenal The history of the military art of the nomadic peoples of Central Asia spans thousands of years. From…
The Mongols did not immediately settle and dominate the territory now known as the Mongolian Plateau. Their historical predecessors, the Xianbei and Rouran, lived to the east and south of…
Of course, the author could have tried to cast a shadow on the fence in order to create intrigue. But it is no secret to history buffs that Genghis Khan's…
At the end of August 1514, the Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim defeated the Iranian Shah Ismail Safavi in the grand Battle of Chaldiran. The more modern and organized Ottoman…
In their time, the Mongols fought their way across Eurasia. They stopped only at the shores of the “last sea,” as Genghis Khan had bequeathed to them: this was the…
The mere mention of his formidable father's name struck fear into entire nations, but Jochi felt nothing but animosity toward this cold and cruel man. The young man was the…
During the conquest of the Jurchen Jin Empire in China, a military commander named Mukhali fought in the front ranks of the Mongol army. He was then appointed governor of…
The Tanguts could not even imagine that their prosperous Buddhist kingdom would become the first testing ground for the Mongol military machine. The state of Xi Xia, which had stood…
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