Uzbek took power in the Golden Horde as a result of the struggle of its khans with the khans of the White Horde. He belonged to the part of the…
In the 12th century, the tribes that later became known as the Mongols occupied vast steppe territories from the Amur River in the east to the upper reaches of the…
The conqueror of the Naimans, Genghis Khan, who relied on an alliance with the Keraite king, whom he had saved from certain death, seemed now able to establish his authority…
Mamluks: Slave Warriors Chapter 1 The Tulunid Kingdom and the New Army Recruitment SystemPart 1 Mamluks: Slave Warriors Chapter 1 The Tulunid Kingdom and the New Army Recruitment System The…
The Mamluks (translated as "belonging") were a military quasi–caste in medieval Islamic Egypt, recruited by the Ayyubid dynasty from young slaves of mainly Slavic, Georgian, Circassian and Turkic origin. The…
Like the Abars and Mukrins, the Turgesh (more correctly Turkesh, Chinese – Tukishi) did not belong to either the bodily, Chui, or the Turkic (Turkyut) group proper. The first information…
It is quite possible that the Hunnic empire, which was an alliance of 24 tribes and was divided into two parts (eastern and western), was formed long before the beginning…
Temujin owed his reputation as an ideal steppe ruler not only to his princely roots and military successes. He was distinguished from many other members of the noble family by…
Some people had concerns about the new ruler. For example, the Keraite king Vankhan, who understood that his yesterday's vassal was becoming his equal. According to the official Genghisid history,…
In the 20th century, Kipchaks or Kipchoks (Kipchoklar) lived compactly in the Zeravshan River valley (Samarkand and Bukhara regions of Uzbekistan), in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya (Khorezm…
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