Timariots are landlords of the Ottoman Empire. How did they differ from the Sepoys?
Screex It's easy: a sipah is a mounted warrior, a traditional Turkic cavalryman of the Ottoman Empire, and a timariot is a landowner. He became the first only when he went…
Bayezid II – the forgotten grandfather of Suleiman the Magnificent
Bayezid II is one of the most forgotten and unpopular Ottoman sultans. It cannot be said that he was a bad warrior or an inept administrator, but the only thing…
Which nations resisted the Ottoman Empire?
Few people remember this now, but the Ottoman Empire began with 500 soldiers who fled from the Mongol invasion, who received lands in Anatolia from the Seljuk sultans. These people…
The role of the Seljuks at the beginning of the Crusades
Historians call the Seljuks a dynasty of Central Asian origin, which reigned in the territory from the Amu Darya to the Mediterranean Sea during the 11th century. It is also…
The Seljuk state at the beginning of the 11th century
The situation in Central Asia in the 10th century In the VIII—IX centuries, the most powerful state in the Middle East was the Abbasid Caliphate. In Central Asia, Transoxiana and…
Cilician Armenian Principality
The historical region of Cilicia has existed in the southeast of Asia Minor since ancient times. In the 1st century BC, the Armenian king Tigran II annexed it to his…
Mongolian Jalairids — conquerors of the Persians of Iran and the Arabs
The Jalair Mongols who were part of the Hulagu shock troops were not numerous. Therefore, they recruited Turks and other nomads into their tumens, most of them Oghuz. Hulagu (1217…
The Battle of Ain Jaloud — the victory of the world of Islam over the Mongol sphere with the help of the Mamluks
In 1256, the Mongols began a Western campaign in the Middle East. Hulagu, the brother of the great kagan Mongke, commanded the campaign. In February 1258, with the help of…
Seljuks — The collapse of the Konya Sultanate in the XIII century
Konya Sultan Kei-Khosrow II After the death of Alaeddin Keykubad I in 1237, the Konya Sultanate was the most powerful in Asia Minor. His vassals were the Trebizondian Greek Empire,…
The main Turks of the Caucasus
In the II century AD, the first Turks appeared in the steppes of the North Caucasus, soon created their first states here - the Kingdom of the Huns -Savir and…