Bukhara Khanate: the greatest of the Uzbek states in Central Asia
Screex The Bukhara Khanate is one of the three Uzbek states in Central Asia that existed from the 1500s to the 1920s, but for the last half century under Russian protectorate.…
Why did the Turks defeat the Scythians?
In other times nomads of Iranian origin occupied half of southern Siberia. And in the east, their possessions reached what is now Western China. Not to mention their homeland and…
Loyal of the loyal: why did Armenians betray the Ottoman Empire?
The Ottoman Empire always looked westward and came to the Caucasus much later. The reason was not strategic interests in the region, but the need to oppose the Shiite Safavid…
Mass circumcision of Georgians/Armenians/Parsis by Jalaladin’s Turks
In general, I was shocked to read this description, but you can't take words out of a song (in this case, the chronicle of the Armenian historian Kirakos Gandzaketsi (c.…
Very ancient geopolitics or how the forest dwellers stopped and repulsed the warlike steppes
They were unstoppable. Having broken out of the South Russian steppes, the Aryan tribes flooded the steppes and forest-steppes of Eurasia up to the Urals and Western Siberia. It seemed…
The invasion of the Khazars in Romania. Khazar trace in the Balkans
In the history of Khazaria there is one interesting and little known episode of the invasion of the Khazars in Romania. Khazar Khaganate, which existed from VII to X century,…
Not Tajiks, not Turks, not Pashtuns, not Mongols: who are the Charaymaks, the last nomads of Afghanistan?
The Charaymaks are one of the peoples of Central Asia, the last nomads of the region. In Afghanistan, their number is estimated at about one and a half million people.…
Karachay. Where can you meet Polovtsians now?
Karachais are now 220 thousand people - compared to the peoples of the neighboring republic, they are half as many as Kabardins, but twice as many as Balkars. The Karachais…
Crimean Tatars: which peoples they are descendants of
The Crimean peninsula has never been empty. During wars, invasions, epidemics or great exoduses, its population did not disappear completely. Up to the Tatar invasion of the Crimean lands settled…
Horde Ezhen — the eldest son of Juchi refused to give up power over the Golden Horde
Already soon after the proclamation of the ruler of all Mongols Genghis Khan allocated to his first-born son Dzhuchi a separate ulus - at that time under this word was…