3.3x7.5 ft Antique Caucasian Gendje Kazak Rug, Ca 1880

Antique Caucasian Kazak rug. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on wool foundation. Very good condition, no issues, washed professionally. Size: 4 x 8 ft.

A fine antique Caucasian Shirvan rug. Very good condition. Wool pile on cotton foundation. Circa 1880

Antique Caucasian Gendje Kazak long rug with stripe & boteh design Circa 1880 A good example of a Gendje long rug, multi coloured stripes filled with boteh and an angular vine The s...

In circa 1179 a young man who would grow up to be Cinggis Qahan (Ghengis Khan) was aided by the son of the Chieftain of the Arulat clan. The young man was Bo'orcu. He became one of Cinggis Qahan's Dorben Kulu'ud (Great Warriors). In the Yuan ch'ao pi-shih, Quatrain 205, it is recorded that later in life Cinggis Qahan said "Let Bo'orcu govern the ten thousand of the right hand which take the Altai as pillow." In other words the Qahan gave a proto-tribal unit to a key general. The Lu of Bo'orculu as coming from the same root as the Mongol term Ulus which means the land, animals, and people, that a that an IL or tribal group controls. These people became known as the Bo'orculu or people of Bo'orcu. Over the years Bo'orculu becomes Borchalu. So if Ford is correct and I believe he is that the Borchalu are Mongol than they must be descended from the Horde of Bo'orcu. The Sultanate of Borchali was located in the southeastern part of Georgia and in the eastern part of today's Turkey. At the beginning of the 18th century, Borchali was vassal of the Khanate of Ganja and in 1736 was ceded by Persian Emperor Nadir Shah...