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As U.S. and Western-led airstrikes continue to target Islamic State fighters for control of the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobane, questions have been raisedabout the U.S. and Turkey’s 60-year alliance. But even prior to the Islamic State’s push there, Turks have held decidedly negative views...

Leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia have signed a treaty that will make Erevan a new member of the Eurasian Economic Union, a free trade zone made up of former Soviet states to rival the European Union. The deal was signed Friday at the summit of the Eurasian Economic Union in...

Decades of war have led to generations of Afghan refugees in Iran. Their treatment under the current regime is worsening, but why now? Afghan refugees in Iran are increasingly facing an unbearable situation as the state policies towards them become explicitly racist. They are the most...

What do you think about this list? Are you shocked or didn't you except those numbers? List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Eurasian nomads were a large group of nomadic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe who often appear in history as invaders of Europe, The Middle East, and China. This generic title encompasses the ethnic groups inhabiting the steppes ofCentral Asia, Mongolia, and what is now Russia. They...

The Chagatai Khanate (Turkish: Çağatay Hanlığı) (Mongolian:Tsagadain Khaant Uls/Цагадайн Хаант Улс) was a Mongol, and later linguistically Turkic, khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan,[2] second son of Genghis Khan, and his descendents and successors. Initially it was a part...

Throughout the history of India many nomadic tribes invaded the subcontinent and all of them got assimilated by Hindi culture. The Turks were the last successful nomadic power in India until they got assimilated just like Hunas, Yuezhi, Sakas and other steppe nomads. Pashtuns also belong to this...

So I'm officially confused know. Please read this Kanishka (Kanishka the Great), (Sanskrit: कनिष्क, Bactrian language: Κανηϸκι, Middle Chinese: 迦腻色伽 (Ka-ni-sak-ka > New Chinese: Jianisejia)) was a Turushka (or Turko-Tatar) emperor[1] of the Kushan dynasty (127–151) who ruled an empire extending...

The Arab–Khazar wars were a series of conflicts fought between the armies of the Khazar Khaganate and the Umayyad Caliphate(as well as its Abbasid successor) and their respective vassals. Historians usually distinguish two major periods of conflict, the First (сa. 642–652) and Second (ca...

After analysing Irans history I came to the conclusion that the Qajars were the weakest dynasty that ever ruled Iran. How many territories did they loose against Russians? Seriously the Qajar era of Iran must be painful for Iranians to read The Qajar dynasty ( listen ; Persian: دودمان قاجار‎...

Siege of Geok Tepe Part of Russian conquest of Central Asia DateDecember 1880 – January 1881 LocationGeok Tepe, Turkmenistan 38°09′28″N 57°57′59″E ResultRussian victory Belligerents Russian EmpireTurkmens Commanders and leaders Mikhail Skobelev Strength 7,100[1] 72 artillery pieces20–25,000...

Siege of Geok Tepe Part of Russian conquest of Central Asia DateDecember 1880 – January 1881 LocationGeok Tepe, Turkmenistan 38°09′28″N 57°57′59″E ResultRussian victory Belligerents Russian EmpireTurkmens Commanders and leaders Mikhail Skobelev Strength 7,100[1] 72 artillery pieces20–25,000...

Nomadic empires, sometimes also called steppe empires, Central or Inner Asian empires, are the empires erected by the bow-wielding, horse-riding, nomadic peoples in the Eurasian steppe, from classical antiquity (Scythia) to the early modern era (Dzungars). Nomadic empires typically operated by...

Afrasiab (Persian: افراسياب‎ afrāsiyāb; Avestan: Fraŋrasyan; Middle-Persian: Frāsiyāv, Frāsiyāk, and Freangrāsyāk) is the name of the mythical king and hero of Turan. The mythical king and hero According to the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), by the Persian epic poet Ferdowsi, Afrasiab was the...

Persians were the second largest nobility of the Mughal Empire of South Asia. Throughout the history of the Delhi Sultanateand its successor the Mughal Empire, Persian technocrats, bureaucrats, soldiers, traders, scientists, architects, teachers,poets, artists, theologians and Sufis migrated and...

Kazakhstan is latest Russian neighbour to feel Putin's chilly nationalist rhetoric As Obama reassures Baltic states of Nato's protection, Kazakhs wonder if they will follow Ukraine, Chechnya and Georgia Vladimir Putin, left, with Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, right, in Belarus as...

Bukhara (Uzbek: Buxoro; Russian: Бухара; Persian: بخارا‎; Tajik: Бухоро) is the capital of the Bukhara Province (viloyat) of Uzbekistan. Bukhara is a city-museum, with about 140 architectural monuments.[1] The nation's fifth-largest city, the population on April 24, 2014 was approximately...

The Massagetae, or Massageteans (Greek: Μασσαγέται,Massagetai),[1] were an ancient Eastern Iranian nomadic confederation,[2][3][4][5][6] inhabiting the steppes of Central Asiaeast of the Caspian Sea, in modern-day Turkmenistan,Afghanistan, western Uzbekistan, and southern Kazakhstan. They are...

The Ghurids or Ghorids (Persian: سلسله غوریان‎; self-designation:Shansabānī) were a native Sunni Muslim dynasty of Eastern Iranian, possibly Tajik, origin, ruling at their zenith over parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran.[5] The dynasty...

The Bahmani Sultanate (Persian: سلطنت بهمنی; Devanagari: बहमनी सल्तनत ; also called the Bahmanid Empire or Bahmani Kingdom) was a Muslim state of the Deccan in South India and one of the great medieval Indian kingdoms.[3] Bahmanid Sultanate was the first independent Islamic Kingdom in South...