The most influential women of the Turkic Khaganate The history of the Turkic peoples contains few references to influential women, since the conquerors of the khaganate often perceived their wives…
Ubaidullah Khan's father Mahmud Sultan was a murid (follower) of the spiritual leader of the Sufi Tariqa Naqshbandi Ubaidullah Shashi (better known as Khoja Ahrar). He was able to transform…
In June 2019, during archaeological excavations in the picturesque village of Eld Pha, located near the majestic Nikaroy tower complex in the Terloevsky Gorge, a group of archaeologists made an…
The processes of ethnogenesis of the Kazakhs are an extensive and complex topic, replete with "white spots". Therefore, any new information about facts previously unknown to the general public is…
Genghis Khan was a great military commander and political leader who united many tribes in Mongolia and created the Empire of the Great Mongols. He became the first great khan…
In 1155, the king of Alanya Khuddan gave his daughter Burdukhan Burdukhan (died before 1184), also known as Bordohan, was an Alan princess and Queen consort of Georgia as the…
The Kipchaks were a Turkic people who lived in the vast territories of Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. In the XIII-XIV centuries, they migrated and settled…
I am opening a series of articles about the four rulers of Asia, so significant that even these publications will not be able to fully reveal them to modern man.…
The Seljuk Turks, back in the period of their power, at the beginning of the XIII century, tried to lay their hands on the Crimea. In the 1220s, the Konya…
Bayezid II is one of the most forgotten and unpopular Ottoman sultans. It cannot be said that he was a bad warrior or an inept administrator, but the only thing…
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