One Eye Between Two Vasilys
If the Ottoman way with a disputed succession—five brothers, eleven years, four of them dead…
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Five Sons, One Throne, No Rules
At Ankara in 1402, Timur destroyed the Ottoman army and took Sultan Bayezid the Thunderbolt…
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Timur & Partners
Act I. An estate divided The Ilkhanids in Anatolia and the Golden Horde in Russia…
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The Principality Nobody Was Watching
An empire that began by being beneath notice Anatolia had been under Mongol authority for…
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The Word That Was Demoted
In the thirteenth century the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan stretched from the South China…
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The Straw That Learned to Write
There was in Proto-Indo-European a word *ḱolh₂mos, “straw, stalk.” From it descend Latin culmus, German…
