The story of Tamerlane: from famine to the throne
Screex 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…
Legendary cruelty of the Mongols during the conquest of Khorezm
China was not the only region where Genghis Khan left his bloody mark. After a convincing victory over the Jin Empire, the Great Khan set his eyes on the rich…
What did the legendary Hun leader Attila look like, and who was he by nationality?
Attila is rightly called one of the great conquerors. Under the leadership of the Hun leader were united numerous Eastern European tribes, and the Western Roman Empire could not recover…
The clan system was the
basis of social organization for any of the Eurasian nomadic tribes, not only for the Mongols. The steppe was divided according to clan origin, positions under the supreme rulers were…
The stages of the Golden Horde’s existence – an empire that disappeared without leaving a trace
At the turn of the 12th -13th centuries, Genghis Khan, the commander and first great khan of the Mongol Empire, united the Mongol and Turkic tribes and conquered vast territories…
Who was Sultan Selim the Terrible, the father of Suleiman the Magnificent?
Selim the Terrible is not very popular among historians because of his hard temper. Therefore, he is in the shadow of his son Suleiman, who is often referred to as…
Why is it wrong to call the rulers of the Ottoman Empire sultans? What title did they actually carry?
The title “sultan” comes from the Arabic language and means something between “power” and “authority”. When there was no single Muslim state, the Arab Caliphate, the sultans were those rulers…