Political portrait of Abylai Khan
Screex The XVIII century entered the history of the Kazakh people as the era of Ablai. Among his contemporaries such remarkable figures as Tole-bii Alibekov, Kazbek-bii Kazdauisty, Kart Kanzhigali Bogenbai, Abulkhair,…
IN SEARCH OF A HOMELAND. WHERE DID THE ANCESTORS OF THE HUNGARIANS COME FROM?
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Hungarians celebrated the "Millennium of the Homeland", i.e. the thousandth anniversary of the Hungarians' arrival in the Danube basin. The fishermen's bastion…
Origin of the Nyman people
The Kazakhs trace their ancestry … from the people of the Turks. … The Turks are known by many names, but we are from the Uigur branch. Shakarim Kudaiberdy-uly. Genealogy…
Abu Nasr Al-Farabi — Kipchak of Otrar
On the outskirts of the Assyrian city of Haleb, where the route of the Great Silk Road passes, a lonely, poorly dressed, elderly man stood timidly, leaning on his staff.…
Kazakhs under the Dzungarian yoke
The Oirats constituted the left wing tumen (zun gar) of the Mongol army. In the middle of the XVII century nomadic Mongolian-speaking tribes of Oirats (Dzungars), in response to the…
The Dzungars and their nomadic khanate
In 1680 Galdan Boshogtu Khan annexed East Turkestan to Dzungaria. At the beginning of the XVII century in the territory between Sayano-Altai and Tien Shan, the Dzungar Khanate emerged, which…
Religious factor in Genghis Khan’s conquests
Since 1206, when the general Mongol hural on the bank of the river Onon proclaimed Temujin Genghis Khan, the lord of the world, and began the era of Mongol conquests,…
Timur’s Empire and the Timurids
Timur was not a descendant of Genghis Khan, but he came from the Mongolian tribe of Barlas on his father's side So, in the middle of 40th years of XIV…
Batu Khan: the mystery of death of the only conqueror of Russia
Batu Khan (Sain Khan) (1207-1255) - the Mongol commander, grandson of Genghis Khan, the second son of Djuchi, the senior son of Genghis Khan, the conqueror of the western and…
Who are the Mughals and the Great Mughals?
After the Western Campaign of 1236-1243, a significant part of the Mongol armies returned back to the previously captured lands of Khorezmshah. The locomotive and driving force of ethnic histories…