Khiva Khanate: How One of the Greatest Uzbek States Emerged and Fell
Screex We know very little about the Khanate of Khiva. However, it is one of the...
Bukhara Khanate: the greatest of the Uzbek states in Central Asia
The Bukhara Khanate is one of the three Uzbek states in Central Asia that existed...
Why did the Turks defeat the Scythians?
In other times nomads of Iranian origin occupied half of southern Siberia. And in the...
Loyal of the loyal: why did Armenians betray the Ottoman Empire?
The Ottoman Empire always looked westward and came to the Caucasus much later. The reason...
Mass circumcision of Georgians/Armenians/Parsis by Jalaladin’s Turks
In general, I was shocked to read this description, but you can’t take words out...
Very ancient geopolitics or how the forest dwellers stopped and repulsed the warlike steppes
They were unstoppable. Having broken out of the South Russian steppes, the Aryan tribes flooded...
The invasion of the Khazars in Romania. Khazar trace in the Balkans
In the history of Khazaria there is one interesting and little known episode of the...
Not Tajiks, not Turks, not Pashtuns, not Mongols: who are the Charaymaks, the last nomads of Afghanistan?
The Charaymaks are one of the peoples of Central Asia, the last nomads of the...
Karachay. Where can you meet Polovtsians now?
Karachais are now 220 thousand people — compared to the peoples of the neighboring republic,...
Crimean Tatars: which peoples they are descendants of
The Crimean peninsula has never been empty. During wars, invasions, epidemics or great exoduses, its...