PERSIAN-LANGUAGE SOURCES ON THE KIPCHAKS AND OTHER TURKIC-SPEAKING ETHNIC GROUPS (XIV-XV CC.)
Screex As is known, the geographical name «Dasht-i Kypchak» is understood in Old Russian chronicles as...
On the destruction of the population of Central Asia by Genghis Khan’s Mongols
Today in a number of countries of Central Asia there is a boom on Genghis...
Chagatai ulus (Mogolistan) and the process of its Islamization
The history of the Central Asian region in the XIII-XVIII centuries is directly connected with...
Who are nomads? How did they come to be? Why did they attack settled peoples?
In many people’s understanding, a nomad is a herdsman who roams freely on the steppe,...
Eurasian nomads: role in history
Much is written about the historiosophic significance of the nomads of the Eurasian steppe. About...
Why nomads did not suffer from parasites and the plague bypassed our steppes
Since the time of Herodotus, it is commonly believed that the Scythians and Sarmatians were...
The call of the nomadic world
Modern civilization is in the deepest crisis, more and more resembling a deadlock. There are...
The two-stranded nomads of the Sahara
When it comes to African nomads, many people think of the Tuareg tribe, the «blue...
The Borjigin clan. Genghis Khan’s clan
In the 13th century the concept of «nationality», especially in the sense in which we...
Kaiser-i Rum: were the Ottoman sultans Byzantine emperors
For the Ottoman sultans, Rome did not end in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople,...