How did Mongol horse archers defeat Turkic horse archers?
Screex 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 mystery of Batyi’s invasion — where are the burials of the Mongols?
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…
Akinji: what became of the Cossacks of the Ottoman Empire?
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…
How were the Egyptian Mamluks able to defeat the Mongols?
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…