Kipchaks against the Mongols . Steppe rage
Screex The Kipchaks resisted the Mongol invasion for 20 years. Longest. For 20 years the Mongols stubbornly destroyed the Polovtsians (Kipchaks), those stubbornly resisted. There are two reasons for such fury,…
From nomads to empire: the first conquests of the Ottomans
The birth of a new power on the wreckage of old empires In 1265, with the death of Hulagu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, a new phase in the…
Dzungaria: a mysterious enemy of Russia and China
The Oirats are considered the heirs of Genghis Khan. They lived in a vast country stretching from the Kazakh steppes to Tibet. The first mention of the Dzungars (or as…
«Yedigey — the last strong khan of the Golden Horde»: could return the former power
"Everything has an end and everything has a beginning" - not without reason so says a very famous saying. And the Mongol Empire - a powerful steppe power, the greatest…
«Kalmyk Khanate»: Russia’s adversaries turned allies
The Kalmyk Khanate, which existed from 1633 to 1771, was the successor of such irreconcilable opponents of Russia as the Nogai Horde and the Oirat Khanate. But history has arranged…
Why did the Turks defeat the Scythians?
In other times nomads of Iranian origin occupied half of southern Siberia. And in the east, their possessions reached what is now Western China. Not to mention their homeland and…
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…
Jungar-Manchurian wars
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…
Great Khorezm in the process of Islamization lost its culture and language, becoming a small Khanate of Khiva
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…
Karamanogullar: the fiercest rivals of the Ottoman Sultans among the Turkish beys
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…