How were the Egyptian Mamluks able to defeat the Mongols?
Screex Not many countries managed to defeat the Mongols in battle at the peak of their power. And almost all of them lost the war anyway, resigned to defeat and paid…
How did the Hungarians defeat the Mongols?
The Middle Danube is the last large section of the Eurasian steppe, which stretches westward from Manchuria itself. Therefore, equestrian peoples have historically strived here: the Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns, Avars,…
What a tragedy for Baghdad the invasion of the Mongols turned out to be
The capital of the Caliphate, the City of Peace, the pearl of the Abbasid state, the cultural and political center of Islamic society, built in an amazing way in the…
The Merkits: what became of the Mongol tribe that stole Genghis Khan’s wife?
In 1155 (or 1162), the Mongol prince Yesugei was hunting in the steppe with his nukers. He accidentally met a noble merkit Eke-Chileda, who was on his way home with…
What were the Mongol ruling dynasties, with the exception of the Genghisids?
The power of Genghis Khan and his descendants was so great that a political concept arose among the Turkic-Mongol peoples - only representatives of the “golden family” could rule the…
The story of Tamerlane: how the war with the Golden Horde began
1391 The night steppe smelled of cinders. The hot wind drove the ashes, the ashes flashed with a billion fiery moths. The earth groaned and trembled, the old shepherd took…
The story of Tamerlane: from famine to the throne
He marched through the world like samum - a fiery desert wind, scorching everything in his path. His name was Timur (Iron), but history remembers him as Tamerlane - Timur…
The Fall of Khorezm. How the ruler’s conceit ruined a rich empire overnight
Jalal ad-Din Manguberdi - the last Shah of Khorezm Khorezm was a rich empire through which the Great Silk Road ran. Now the territory of the ancient state is divided.…
Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde: the birth of a warrior
1352 He was born in a year when the steppe howled with hunger. His mother died before she could whisper his name. His father, the Oglan of Mangyshlak, ruler of…
A little-known factor in the fall of Khazaria. The Guzes against the Khazar Khaganate
In the IX-X centuries there was a severe drought in the Eurasian steppes, and it was a serious change of climate in the region. The people of the Guzes suffered…