Tiger’s Leap: how Genghis Khan cornered the last hero of Khorezm
Screex November 24, 1221. The bank of the Indus River is the place where one of the most dramatic epics of the Middle Ages ended. On one side — the rushing…
Ashtarkhanid commander Yalangtush Bahadur — Kazakh or Uzbek
Uzbeks and Kazakhs have long argued over the nationality of Yalangtush Bahadur (in Kazakh, Zhalantos Bahadur), the creator of the modern architectural appearance of Samarkand- Kazakh or Uzbek? Sherdor Madrasah,…
Mengu-Timur . The Golden Horde
Berke, the third son of Jochi, was born in the lands of Desht-i-Kipchak (the territory of modern Kazakhstan) in the year when his father occupied Khorezm (1220). Upon learning about…
Baybars and his successors in power: Mamluk lawlessness in Egypt’s political life (The struggle of the Burjite corps against the Bahri corps)
Baybars and his successors in power: Mamluk lawlessness in Egypt's political life (The struggle of the Burjite corps against the Bahri corps)Chapter 4 Baybars and his successors in power: Mamluk…
The Mamluks. The black legend. Friends and foes of the Great Steppe
The Foreign Legion is an ancient invention. Already the Romans of the Empire and the Chinese under the Younger Han dynasty replenished their troops with barbarian detachments, as the Romans…
BERKE KHAN OF THE GOLDEN HORDE AND HIS REFORMS IN DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY (1254-1266). The Golden Horde and the Rise of the Cossacks
BERKE KHAN OF THE GOLDEN HORDE AND HIS REFORMS IN DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY (1254-1266) Khan Berke, according to contemporaries, was of a violent nature, although, apparently, he was not…
Where did Tsar Uzbek rule?
Mongol rule in Russian history is described under the name of the Golden Horde, while to the Mohammedans our distant deeds were known as the Jochi Ulus or the Desht…
From Sheiban to Abulkhair. Empire of the steppes. Attila, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane
While the Genghis Khanid families were established in Persia, China, and Transoxiana, and appeared and disappeared in southern Russia, other branches of the same family fell behind and were forgotten…
UZBEK KHAN OF THE GOLDEN HORDE AND THE SITUATION IN THE RUSSIAN PRINCIPALITIES AND NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES — LITHUANIA AND POLAND (1312-1341)
Uzbek took power in the Golden Horde as a result of the struggle of its khans with the khans of the White Horde. He belonged to the part of the…
GENGHIS KHAN. 100 great monarchs
In the 12th century, the tribes that later became known as the Mongols occupied vast steppe territories from the Amur River in the east to the upper reaches of the…