Slavery in the Great Horde of Desht-i-Kipchak (Crimean Khanate)
Screex According to Sharia, only a prisoner of war captured in the lands of Christians or Jews could be a slave in the Great Horde. A slave's child is also a…
Are Crimean Tatars Nogais or Kazakhs? Are the Crimean Tatars part of the Tatars?
Some Nogai propagandists on the Internet make the absurd claim that the Crimean Tatar people do not exist (supposedly they are three different peoples, and the steppe Crimean Tatars, in…
How did Attila really die?
The Romans knew very little about the Huns. In the 4th century A.D., the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus described this people as follows: "The Hun tribe lives outside the Maeotian…
History of Uzbekistan / 5 / Turks again / The confrontation between the Karakhanids and the Ghaznavids
Mahmud Ghaznavi sought to conquer India. The campaigns brought huge spoils, but when the main forces went on a campaign, the Karakhanids and the Sazu tried to grab off pieces…
Genghis Khan’s warriors and modern Mongols: why they are completely different peoples
Scientists and travelers who visited Mongolia were often surprised by the apparent discrepancy between the historically established image of the great conquerors who rallied around the legendary Genghis Khan and…
What did the Golden Horde do to those Tatars who refused to convert to Islam?
Despite the enormous loss of life during the Mongol conquests, they had at least one positive side. Genghis Khan and his heirs, out of the need to manage the disparate…
How did Tokhtamysh take Moscow and why did he fail in the Golden Horde?
"Your father has been executed," the messenger said. At the same moment, Tokhtamysh felt his insides turn cold. Just three words turned his fate around. Now he had to save…
Kipchak, who became Sultan of Egypt and Syria Baybars
A thin, frightened boy looked around and wrapped himself in rags. He barely had time to realize what was happening when most of his tribe was slaughtered, and he himself…
The descendants of Genghis Khan’s warriors are the Hazaras of Afghanistan
The Khazarians have an unusual fate. They now live in a mountainous area of central Afghanistan. These people have a Mongoloid appearance and speak the language of the Iranian group.…
The Barlas: What Happened to Tamerlane’s Native Tribe
The Barlas belonged to the Hamag Mongols, a northeastern confederation of nomadic tribes that would eventually unite their people into a single entity and become the core of the Mongol…