Khiva Khanate: How One of the Greatest Uzbek States Emerged and Fell
Screex We know very little about the Khanate of Khiva. However, it is one of the "robber" states, which raided each of its neighbors for slaves. The reason for its conquest…
Bukhara Khanate: the greatest of the Uzbek states in Central Asia
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.…
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.…
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,…
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…
The Chobanid dynasty: how did it rule Azerbaijan after the Mongols?
After the collapse of the Arab Caliphate, various Islamic dynasties ruled the territories of the South Caucasus and Azerbaijan. As a rule, they were originally of Arabian origin, but were…
Baba Sultan — the last nomadic ruler among the Uzbeks
Baba Sultan is one of the most reviled figures in Uzbek history. Despite the fact that he had all the rights to the Bukhara throne as the eldest in the…
A tulip is more expensive than a throne or the Ottomans strike back
At the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, the Ottoman Empire, formerly an inviolable stronghold, whose name frightened both peasant and queen, which was the eternal headache of many European and…
«The Dzungarian Khanate was a state that occupied part of modern Russia»: opponents of Russian expansion into Siberia
By the 17th century, the sprawling Russian kingdom had already dealt with all the khanates around it. It was Moscow that became the main force in the region of Eastern…
Who was the Tatar commander Nogai, the ancestor of the Nogai people?
Genghis Khan's eldest son was Juchi, Juchi's eldest son was Orda-Ezhen. In the understanding of the Mongols of that time, primogeniture was an important, though not obligatory, argument in favor…