The Khazarian Empire: History, Territory, and Conversion to Judaism
The Khazarian Empire: History, Territory, and Conversion to Judaism The Khazar Empire was a Turkic polity that emerged in the mid-seventh century and became a major regional po...
The Khazarian Empire: History, Territory, and Conversion to Judaism The Khazar Empire was a Turkic polity that emerged in the mid-seventh century and became a major regional po...
The Chen dynasty, ruling southern China, sought to stabilize its domain amid persistent threats from northern dynasties. Efforts to fortify its borders and consolidate power marked this p...
The Frankish conquest of Aquitaine began as the Franks expanded their territory into the southwestern region of present-day France. Under the leadership of Clovis I and his successors, th...
Odaenathus rose to power in Palmyra amid the crisis of the Roman Empire in the mid-3rd century. Following the capture of the Roman Emperor Valerian by the Persians, Palmyra emerged as a r...
c. 1343–1355 — Stefan Dušan's Serbian Empire expands across much of Albania, Epirus and Macedonia. After Dušan's death, the empire fragments and local noble families increasingly establis...
1171–1193 CE in Egypt and the wider region — Saladin ends Fatimid rule and establishes the Ayyubid dynasty. He restores Sunni political dominance in Egypt and uses Egyptian resources to b...
c. 3300–3000 BCE — Later royal ideology presents unification as a foundational act, but archaeology points toward a longer process of competition, alliance and conquest among regional pow...