The Battle of Cannes. Burials of slain warriors
Screex After the Battle of Cannae, a huge number of dead soldiers remained lying on the plain, whose bodies had to be buried. I have repeatedly come across claims that if…
When and why did Armenians speak Tatar? How and when did the Armenian-Kipchak language appear?
In the history of the world, it has happened more than once that representatives of one nation suddenly took and switched to the speech of a completely different neighboring ethnic…
Why did Suleiman kill his own son? Historical facts about shehzad Mustafa and his execution
The execution of Shehzade Mustafa is one of the most painful events in the history of the Ottoman Empire. To this day, historians are arguing about whether shehzadeh Mustafa was…
Ubaidullah Khan is the one who outlined the political boundaries of modern Central Asia
Ubaidullah Khan's father Mahmud Sultan was a murid (follower) of the spiritual leader of the Sufi Tariqa Naqshbandi Ubaidullah Shashi (better known as Khoja Ahrar). He was able to transform…
Chechens Teipa Terloi and Tsarina Tamara: a story of friendship that sheds light on the burial place of the legendary Tsarina
In June 2019, during archaeological excavations in the picturesque village of Eld Pha, located near the majestic Nikaroy tower complex in the Terloevsky Gorge, a group of archaeologists made an…
The history of the Argyns. Where and how did one of the most numerous Kazakh clans come from
The processes of ethnogenesis of the Kazakhs are an extensive and complex topic, replete with "white spots". Therefore, any new information about facts previously unknown to the general public is…
The ethnic essence of the Shaker of the Universe — Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan was a great military commander and political leader who united many tribes in Mongolia and created the Empire of the Great Mongols. He became the first great khan…
The husband of Queen Tamara, David Soslan, is an Ossetian or a Georgian
In 1155, the king of Alanya Khuddan gave his daughter Burdukhan Burdukhan (died before 1184), also known as Bordohan, was an Alan princess and Queen consort of Georgia as the…
Why did the Don Cossacks consider the Kalmyks to be a «fraternal people»
Genghis Khan's empire collapsed long ago and sank into oblivion. However, the descendants of his warriors still live among us. And in order to meet them, it is not necessary…
Tsarina Tamara and the Kipchaks in Georgia: how the Polovtsian cavalry defeated the Seljuks, and the Polovtsian vigilantes married a Georgian princess
The Kipchaks were a Turkic people who lived in the vast territories of Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. In the XIII-XIV centuries, they migrated and settled…