The fate of the inhabitants of Constantinople after the Turkish conquest
Screex 1391, 1394, 1411, 1422 and 1453 - these are the dates when the Turks tried to take the capital of Byzantium. Five large-scale operations to capture the city, and only…
Only a few guesses why the Mongols were victorious in their many wars
Genghis Khan's problems I have told you a lot about how Temujin's Mongols defeated all their enemies from Southern China to the Northern Black Sea coast. By the way, in…
Where did the Mongols get hundreds of thousands of arrows in the middle of the steppe?
The traditional tactics of Eurasian nomads envisioned engaging in close combat only as a last resort. Only when the enemy's best warriors had fallen, and the enemy army was breaking…
The Mongol Empire. How did the second largest state in history emerge and why did it disappear?
In the ranking of the largest states in history, the first place is, of course, the British Empire, whose total territory by 1921 ranged from 31 to 36.6 million square…
How did Mongol horse archers defeat Turkic horse archers?
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…
Subbotnik or death: how did khashar, the Mongols’ most feared tactic, come to be?
The word “khashar” is translated from Arabic as “joint free labor. And in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, since Soviet times, it has been used in the sense of “subbotnik”. That is,…
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…
How did the Hungarians defeat the Mongols?
The Middle Danube is the last large section of the Eurasian steppe, which stretches westward from Manchuria itself. Therefore, equestrian peoples have historically strived here: the Scythians, Sarmatians, Huns, Avars,…
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 personal guard of Batyi Khan: what is known about the elite of the Mongols?
After Genghis Khan's death in 1227, his sons moved away from their father's approach to army formation and began to include the troops of the conquered. This was inevitable, pure…