Cage life and child marriage: 10 crazy Ottoman laws and customs that would seem wild to us today
Screex The traditions of the times of the Ottoman Empire are nowadays most often a source...
Abylai Khan
Abylai (Abylmansur) — an outstanding statesman, politician, diplomat, unifier of Kazakh lands. He was born...
Political portrait of Abylai Khan
The XVIII century entered the history of the Kazakh people as the era of Ablai....
IN SEARCH OF A HOMELAND. WHERE DID THE ANCESTORS OF THE HUNGARIANS COME FROM?
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Hungarians celebrated the «Millennium of the Homeland»,...
KIPCHAKS: AN ETHNOS AND ITS NAME
The term «Kipchak», known in medieval Arab-Persian historiography, changed its content in the course of...
Origin of the Nyman people
The Kazakhs trace their ancestry … from the people of the Turks. … The Turks...
Abu Nasr Al-Farabi — Kipchak of Otrar
On the outskirts of the Assyrian city of Haleb, where the route of the Great...
Modern Kazakhs and the Kipchak heritage
The Kipchaks (Kipchaks, in Old Russian chronicles — Polovtsians, in European sources — Kumans) were...
On the Naimans who inhabited the territory of Mongolia in the XII — early XIII centuries
In the XII century the territory of the Mongolian steppes was inhabited by a number...
Kazakhs under the Dzungarian yoke
The Oirats constituted the left wing tumen (zun gar) of the Mongol army. In the...