Subbotnik or death: how did khashar, the Mongols’ most feared tactic, come to be?
Screex The word “khashar” is translated from Arabic as “joint free labor. And in Uzbekistan and...
Akinji: what became of the Cossacks of the Ottoman Empire?
The Don and Zaporozhye Cossacks bore a Turkic name, lived a Turkic life, used Turkic...
How were the Egyptian Mamluks able to defeat the Mongols?
Not many countries managed to defeat the Mongols in battle at the peak of their...
How did the Hungarians defeat the Mongols?
The Middle Danube is the last large section of the Eurasian steppe, which stretches westward...
What a tragedy for Baghdad the invasion of the Mongols turned out to be
The capital of the Caliphate, the City of Peace, the pearl of the Abbasid state,...
The Merkits: what became of the Mongol tribe that stole Genghis Khan’s wife?
In 1155 (or 1162), the Mongol prince Yesugei was hunting in the steppe with his...
What were the Mongol ruling dynasties, with the exception of the Genghisids?
The power of Genghis Khan and his descendants was so great that a political concept...
The story of Tamerlane: how the war with the Golden Horde began
1391 The night steppe smelled of cinders. The hot wind drove the ashes, the ashes...
Murad I: blinded his son and fell in battle — the story of the first of the Ottoman family to call himself Sultan
A small Ottoman force first crossed into Europe in 1352, at the end of Bey...
The story of Tamerlane: from famine to the throne
He marched through the world like samum — a fiery desert wind, scorching everything in...