In the ranking of the largest states in history, the first place is, of course, the British Empire, whose total territory by 1921 ranged from 31 to 36.6 million square…
Türks and Mongols lived in close contact for many millennia and were part of the same states. For this reason, scientists are still struggling over the insoluble problem: what origin…
The Western campaign of the Mongols is known in detail, many annals and chronicles have been written about it in 20 countries in 15 languages. Starting with eyewitnesses of the…
The Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks bore a Turkic name, lived a Turkic life, used Turkic tactics in war, and even by blood were largely Turkic, as bride-kidnapping from neighbors was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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