The Battle of the Pass: How the Arabs gave Central Asia to the Turks
Central Asia is Central Asia because Iran is located to the south of it, nomadic peoples to the north, and India and China to the east. Therefore, when attacked by…
Central Asia is Central Asia because Iran is located to the south of it, nomadic peoples to the north, and India and China to the east. Therefore, when attacked by…
With its Genghis Khan-style policy of conquest, the Dzungar Khanate could not help but clash with the other strongest power of its time, the Manchu Qing Empire. Both of these…
The modern republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are partially located on the territory of the ancient state of Khorezm, which was first mentioned in sources from the 7th century…
Formation of the Karaman beylik The founder of the Karamanogullar dynasty (1256-1474) is considered to be the leader of the Turkmen militia Karaman-bey (died in 1261 or 1263). Karaman at…
Byzantine Empire and Byzantine are fictitious names invented by Habsburg historians to avoid calling the legitimate Roman Empire as such and to support their claim that the state led by…
At the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, the Ottoman Empire, formerly an inviolable stronghold, whose name frightened both peasant and queen, which was the eternal headache of many European and…
By the 17th century, the sprawling Russian kingdom had already dealt with all the khanates around it. It was Moscow that became the main force in the region of Eastern…
The Oirats began to penetrate into the territory of the Kazakh Khanate in the 15th century - that is, when the Kazakh state was formed. Relations were peaceful - there…
After the Battle of Cannae, a huge number of dead soldiers remained lying on the plain, whose bodies had to be buried. I have repeatedly come across claims that if…
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.…