Urban Planning in the Bolgar Ulus of the Golden Horde
The paper addresses the issues of the operation of urban settlements in the territory of the Volga Bolgaria in the second half of the 13th – early 15th centuries.
Airat M. Gubaidullin
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Mongol Warfare in the Pre-Dissolution Period » [PDF]
Although the Mongols used many of the tactics and strategies that steppe nomads had used for centuries, the Mongols refined steppe warfare so that this style of warfare reached its apogee during the Mongol Empire.
Timothy May
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The article considers the topical study issues associated with the urban planning of medieval Bolgar (9th –15th cc.) – the issues of localization and organization of the street space.
Badeev Denis Yu.
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An early Little Ice Age brackish water invasion along the south coast of the Caspian Sea (sediment of Langarud wetland) and its wider impacts on environment and people [PDF]
Caspian Sea level has undergone significant changes through time with major impacts not only on the surrounding coasts, but also offshore. This study reports a brackish water invasion on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea constructed from a multi ...
Aghanabati A +19 more
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Prospecting Archaeological Works at the Northern Defensive Wall in the Seaside Part of Derbent
The article presents some results of an archaeological researches conducted at the northern city wall in the seaside part of Derbent outside the medieval shakhristan. The soundings (No.
M. S. Gadzhiev +5 more
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Central Asian köshks from the Islamic period before the Mongol conquest: fortified, semi-fortified or unfortified? [PDF]
In their external appearance, the Islamic-period köshks in Central Asia, especially the characteristic buildings with corrugated outer walls, dated broadly speaking from the 7th–8th century AD to the times of the Mongol conquest at the beginning of the ...
Piotr Piekarz
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The Glacier Complexes of the Mountain Massifs of the North-West of Inner Asia and their Dynamics [PDF]
The subject of this paper is the glaciation of the mountain massifs Mongun-Taiga, Tavan-Boghd-Ola, Turgeni- Nuru, and Harhira-Nuru. The glaciation is represented mostly by small forms that sometimes form a single complex of domeshaped peaks ...
Chistyakov , Kirill V. +3 more
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New Studies of Bolgar Ceramics: Historical and Cultural Approach
The many years of history of the studies of Bolgar ceramics have resulted in the need for its division into subgroups in accordance with certain visually identified signs: design technology, color and relative plasticity of clay, presence of impurities ...
Kuklina Anna A.
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During archaeological studies, a representative collection of Finno-Ugric artefacts (20 pcs.) was collected in the central part of the Bolgar fortified settlement. Most of them are various decorations and clothing items.
Denis Yu. Badeev
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Qalāwūnid discourse, elite communication and the Mamluk cultural matrix: interpreting a 14th-century panegyric [PDF]
This article analyses a brief panegyric text from mid-14th-century Egypt, authored by the court scribe Ibrāhīm b. al- Qaysarānī (d. 1352) and dedicated to the Qalāwūnid Mamluk sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ Ismāʿīl (r. 1342-5).
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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