How were the Egyptian Mamluks able to defeat the Mongols?
Screex Not many countries managed to defeat the Mongols in battle at the peak of their power. And almost all of them lost the war anyway, resigned to defeat and paid…
What a tragedy for Baghdad the invasion of the Mongols turned out to be
The capital of the Caliphate, the City of Peace, the pearl of the Abbasid state, the cultural and political center of Islamic society, built in an amazing way in the…
The Merkits: what became of the Mongol tribe that stole Genghis Khan’s wife?
In 1155 (or 1162), the Mongol prince Yesugei was hunting in the steppe with his nukers. He accidentally met a noble merkit Eke-Chileda, who was on his way home with…
What were the Mongol ruling dynasties, with the exception of the Genghisids?
The power of Genghis Khan and his descendants was so great that a political concept arose among the Turkic-Mongol peoples - only representatives of the “golden family” could rule the…
The story of Tamerlane: how the war with the Golden Horde began
1391 The night steppe smelled of cinders. The hot wind drove the ashes, the ashes flashed with a billion fiery moths. The earth groaned and trembled, the old shepherd took…
Murad I: blinded his son and fell in battle — the story of the first of the Ottoman family to call himself Sultan
A small Ottoman force first crossed into Europe in 1352, at the end of Bey Orhan's reign. The Turks managed to capture an outpost, but had not yet begun any…
The story of Tamerlane: from famine to the throne
He marched through the world like samum - a fiery desert wind, scorching everything in his path. His name was Timur (Iron), but history remembers him as Tamerlane - Timur…
The Fall of Khorezm. How the ruler’s conceit ruined a rich empire overnight
Jalal ad-Din Manguberdi - the last Shah of Khorezm Khorezm was a rich empire through which the Great Silk Road ran. Now the territory of the ancient state is divided.…
Tokhtamysh, Khan of the Golden Horde: the birth of a warrior
1352 He was born in a year when the steppe howled with hunger. His mother died before she could whisper his name. His father, the Oglan of Mangyshlak, ruler of…
The personal guard of Batyi Khan: what is known about the elite of the Mongols?
After Genghis Khan's death in 1227, his sons moved away from their father's approach to army formation and began to include the troops of the conquered. This was inevitable, pure…