tatars

So, in his final years, King Wladyslaw IV of Poland dreamed of a great war with the Crimea and Turks, there were some alliances and foreign funding organized, Cossacks have been roused (which had very unfortunate results very soon) and the like. But Sejm was not interested in war, particularly...

During WW2 and after, Stalin deported people of many different nationalities (partly or wholesale) to various parts of the Soviet interior. These included Chechens, Kalmyks, Volga Germans, Crimean Tatars, people from the Baltic states and others. But after Khrushchev came to power and...

I have this question because the languages spoken by the tatars are from the Cuman-Kipchak branch that originated from the old cuman confederation that existed in the Eurasian Steppe before the arrival of the Mongols, but independent Tatar states started to exist only after the arrival of the...

What if the standoff between Akhmat Khan and Ivan III, rather than leading to the Tatars withdrawing and de facto recognizing Muscovite independence, boils over into a full-fledged battle? Which side would win? What would be the repercussions of a Muscovite victory, or conversely a Golden Horde...

What if the standoff between Akhmat Khan and Ivan III, rather than leading to the Tatars withdrawing and de facto recognizing Muscovite independence, boils over into a full-fledged battle? Which side would win? What would be the repercussions of a Muscovite victory, or conversely a Golden Horde...