The Battle of Cannes. Burials of slain warriors
Screex 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…
The four greatest Asians. Chapter I. The Empire of the Immortal Lion
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 Battle of the Three Kings: How the Turks and Moroccans defeated the Portuguese and changed the course of history
After Algeria recognized Ottoman suzerainty, Morocco remained the last independent Islamic state in North Africa. It did not at all seek to fall under the rule of Istanbul, for which…
Timariots are landlords of the Ottoman Empire. How did they differ from the Sepoys?
It's easy: a sipah is a mounted warrior, a traditional Turkic cavalryman of the Ottoman Empire, and a timariot is a landowner. He became the first only when he went…
The role of the Seljuks at the beginning of the Crusades
Historians call the Seljuks a dynasty of Central Asian origin, which reigned in the territory from the Amu Darya to the Mediterranean Sea during the 11th century. It is also…
The Battle of the Inche River on August 30, 1722 — The Highlanders know how to fight and die as warriors
The dragoons were excitedly exchanging fire with the Highlanders. They rode in front of them as if on a shooting range. They just didn't hold the targets in their hands.…
Mongolian Jalairids — conquerors of the Persians of Iran and the Arabs
The Jalair Mongols who were part of the Hulagu shock troops were not numerous. Therefore, they recruited Turks and other nomads into their tumens, most of them Oghuz. Hulagu (1217…
The Battle of Ain Jaloud — the victory of the world of Islam over the Mongol sphere with the help of the Mamluks
In 1256, the Mongols began a Western campaign in the Middle East. Hulagu, the brother of the great kagan Mongke, commanded the campaign. In February 1258, with the help of…
The main Turks of the Caucasus
In the II century AD, the first Turks appeared in the steppes of the North Caucasus, soon created their first states here - the Kingdom of the Huns -Savir and…
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…