Traditional Life on the Central Asian Steppes Before they established the Great Seljuk Empire, the Oghuz Turks lived a pastoralist life on the harsh steppes of Central Asia. These wide-open plains ...

By the tenth century, the Oghuz had expanded west and north of the Aral Sea and into the steppe of present-day Kazakstan, absorbing not only Iranians but also Turks from the Kipchak and Karluk ...

History of Iranian Azerbaijan from Oghuz Turks to the Qara Qoyunlu rulers who built the Blue Mosque Pers Masjede kabud and to Hasan Padeshah Aq Qoyunlu who chose ...