KIPCHAKS: AN ETHNOS AND ITS NAME
Screex 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...
The Dzungars and their nomadic khanate
In 1680 Galdan Boshogtu Khan annexed East Turkestan to Dzungaria. At the beginning of the...
What were the main factors that led to the collapse of the Golden Horde?
Sarai-Batu — the capital of the Golden Horde, was located in the Astrakhan region, near...
On the initial stage of the origin of the Turks and their DNA
A stone sculpture of the Early Turkic period, 1300 years old, was found about 250...
Religious factor in Genghis Khan’s conquests
Since 1206, when the general Mongol hural on the bank of the river Onon proclaimed...