"Turanic Arms and Armour" Topic

(part I)

"In the following images, I present an indicative collection of arms and armour of the Turanic empires and peoples of the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era (according to European chronology) which witnessed the greatest extent of the Turanic realms. They are arms and armour for men and horses, coming from the Sultanate of Delhi, the Mughal Empire in India, the Tatars of the Golden Horde, the Ottoman Empire, the Mamluk Sultanate, the Turkoman-controlled Empires of Iran, the Central Asian Turanic tribes and elsewhere.
The images are taken from museums and organizations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Furusiyya Art Foundation, Topkapi Palace Museum (Constantinople), Museum of Kulikovo Battlefield (representations by M. Gorelik whom I sincerely congratulate for his lifetime work), Museo Stibbert in Florence, Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, the Royal Academy of Arts (London) and others. If I do not know the museum of origin of an image, I mention that in its caption.
The Ottomans and the Mamluks are well known to the readers, so I will briefly refer just to the other mentioned Turanic peoples. Concerning the Mamluks, I will only point out that they were former slave-warriors (according to the early Islamic constitutions of the ghulams and others) who were controlling Egypt, Syria and other neighboring regions and were mostly Turks from the Kipchak and Oghuz tribal federations, but they also contained many Circassians, Georgians, Greeks and Slavs.
The Turkomans of the Iranian regions were mainly of Oghuz origins and were for many centuries the rulers of today's Iran, Iraq (an Arabic country) and other neighboring countries through empires like the Great Seljuk, the Aq Qoyunlu, the Safavid and the Zengid, in which empires they were the main military forces (the Safavid dynasty seems to have been a mixed Irano-Turkoman family). Some well known tribal federations of the Turkomans/Oghuz of Iran were the Aq Qoyunlu, the Kara Qoyunlu and the Afshar. Modern descendants include the Azeris, the Turkmen and the Kasgay. The Lesser Seljuks and the Ottomans originally were also Turkoman/Oghuz tribes of Iran who finally settled in Asia Minor…"
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