The Mongol Empire. How did the second largest state in history emerge and why did it disappear?
Screex In the ranking of the largest states in history, the first place is, of course,...
How did Mongol horse archers defeat Turkic horse archers?
Türks and Mongols lived in close contact for many millennia and were part of the...
The mystery of Batyi’s invasion — where are the burials of the Mongols?
The Western campaign of the Mongols is known in detail, many annals and chronicles have...
The Enigma of Steppe Warriors: Why the Pechenegs Ignored Hygiene but Obsessively Cleaned Their Ears
Hygiene paradoxes: a cultural phenomenon of Pecheneg society The hygienic practices of the Pechenegs represent...
Subbotnik or death: how did khashar, the Mongols’ most feared tactic, come to be?
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...