The inhabitants of the Celestial Empire, in principle, understood that their neighbors on the other side of the Great Wall were multinational. But they did not understand the varieties of…
Al-Malik al-Ashraf Tuman-bay II (1473, Aleppo - April 15, 1517, Cairo) was the last Mamluk Sultan of Egypt from the Circassian Burjit dynasty (1516-1517) Mamluk-Ottoman conflict The Mamluk Sultanate was…
In the middle of the 13th century, the peak of Mongol strength was reached, and no nation could stand up to the nomads militarily. The Mongol army was better in…
“When Mongols have made with Russ what we have described above, and have plundered their grounds, they have withdrawn back and have gone to Bulgarian in 620 ” - so…
1391, 1394, 1411, 1422 and 1453 - these are the dates when the Turks tried to take the capital of Byzantium. Five large-scale operations to capture the city, and only…
Usually one is called the descendants of the other, but this is not entirely true. The relationship between them is much more complex, in connection with which it is not…
For history buffs it is no secret that at a certain stage of its existence Khazar Khaganate adopted Judaism as the state faith. But the circumstances of this decision for…
Genghis Khan's problems I have told you a lot about how Temujin's Mongols defeated all their enemies from Southern China to the Northern Black Sea coast. By the way, in…
The traditional tactics of Eurasian nomads envisioned engaging in close combat only as a last resort. Only when the enemy's best warriors had fallen, and the enemy army was breaking…
In 376 AD, the barbarians living north of the Danube turned to their civilized adversary Rome for help and asked for protection. The reason for this was fear of an…
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