The Kara-Khanid Khanate (Persian: قراخانیان, romanized: Qarākhāniyān; Chinese: 喀喇汗國; pinyin: Kālā Hánguó), also known as the Karakhanids, Qarakhanids, Ilek Khanids or the Afrasiabids (Persian: آل افراسیاب, romanized: Āl-i Afrāsiyāb, lit. 'House of Afrasiab'), was a Turkic khanate that ruled Central Asia in the 9th through the early 13th century.

The Kazakh famine of 1930–1933, also known the Kazakh catastrophe, [9] [10] was a famine during which approximately 1.5 million people died in the Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic, then part of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in the Soviet Union, of whom 1.3 million were ethnic Kazakhs. [4]

Dubhghall mac Suibhne ( fl. 1232 × 1241 – 1262) was a prominent thirteenth-century landholder in Argyll, and a leading member of Clann Suibhne. [note 1] He was a son of Suibhne mac Duinn Shléibhe, and appears to have held lordship of Knapdale from at least the 1240s to the 1260s, and may have initiated the construction of Skipness Castle ...

John I, Lord of Werle-Parchim (c. 1245 – 15 October 1283), was from 1277 to 1281 to Lord of Werle and from 1281 to 1283 and to Lord of Werle-Parchim.. He was the eldest son of Nicholas I and Jutta of Anhalt.. After his father's death in 1277, he first ruled Werle together with his brothers Henry I and Bernard I.In 1281, it was decided to divide Werle and John took over control of …

Starting in the 1240s, the Mongols made repeated invasions of Syria or attempts thereof. Most failed, but they did have some success in 1260 and 1300, capturing Aleppo and Damascus and destroying the Ayyubid dynasty. The Mongols were forced to retreat within months each time by other forces in the area, primarily the Egyptian Mamluks. Since 1260, it had been described as …

1279. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Millennium : 2nd millennium. Centuries : 12th century – 13th century – 14th century. Decades : 1240s 1250s 1260s – 1270s – 1280s 1290s 1300s. Years :