Loyal of the loyal: why did Armenians betray the Ottoman Empire?
Screex 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...
Horde Ezhen — the eldest son of Juchi refused to give up power over the Golden Horde
Already soon after the proclamation of the ruler of all Mongols Genghis Khan allocated to...
The Battle of the Pass: How the Arabs gave Central Asia to the Turks
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...