The Battle of the Pass: How the Arabs gave Central Asia to the Turks
Screex Central Asia is Central Asia because Iran is located to the south of it, nomadic...
Jungar-Manchurian wars
With its Genghis Khan-style policy of conquest, the Dzungar Khanate could not help but clash...
On the «borderless» alliance between the Ottoman Empire and the Sheibanid state
In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire and the Sheibanid state formed close allied relations...
The Chobanid dynasty: how did it rule Azerbaijan after the Mongols?
After the collapse of the Arab Caliphate, various Islamic dynasties ruled the territories of the...
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...
Baba Sultan — the last nomadic ruler among the Uzbeks
Baba Sultan is one of the most reviled figures in Uzbek history. Despite the fact...
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...
Were there Byzantine revolts after the Ottoman conquest?
Byzantine Empire and Byzantine are fictitious names invented by Habsburg historians to avoid calling the...
A tulip is more expensive than a throne or the Ottomans strike back
At the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, the Ottoman Empire, formerly an inviolable stronghold, whose...
«The Dzungarian Khanate was a state that occupied part of modern Russia»: opponents of Russian expansion into Siberia
By the 17th century, the sprawling Russian kingdom had already dealt with all the khanates...