The Red Kaganate

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The Red Kaganate is an international, inter-club* association of Reenactors * whose collective goal is to recreate the environment and atmosphere of the epic history of the Turco-Mongol world.
Wave after wave, the Nomads of Asia rode Westwards into Central Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and Eastwards into India and China. Their cultural influence, and at times their Empires covered most of the Medieval World.
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These Nomad tribes, led by their Khans, came together under the leadership of a "Great Khan" -- Kha-Khan or Kagan. The Empires that were thus formed -- polyglot confederacies of Iranian, Uighur, Turkic, and Tatar-Mongol tribes -- were called Kaganates.
The Red Kaganate is intended to present such an Empirial Federation, as reflected in the cultural record left by the historical Kaganates and smaller tribal confederacies.
See Structure of the Red Kaganate for information about the Association - meet some of our members and read our governing documents.

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LATEST CHANGES:
02/08/2010 The Great Migration continues
Continuing to transfer files from our earlier address.
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03/22/2007 Food and the Home - Plov recipe added.
09/20/2005 Food and the Home - Finished with dining gear from the Hermitage (reorganized "Dining Habits, Eating Vessels" subsection).
09/19/2005 Food and the Home - Some dining gear from the Hermitage.
09/16/2005 Games and Military Arts - Armour subsection - Some much needed fixes to get pages working right.
December, 2003 The Great Migration Began with Main Page moved to New Server with our very own domain name!!! (Thanks to Khan Dmitry !!!)

Last Pre-Migration updates
Fall - 2003 Resource Links - Medieval Curved Sabers (in "Schlagger weight") are now available from one of the Fencing suppliers!!!
Summer - 2003 Contributions and Donations Page has been set up. HERE.

September 11, 2001 A date that will live in Infamy (to coin a phrase)!
The Twin Towers in New York were destroyed today and the Pentagon damaged, with somewhere near five thousand lives lost in a terrorist attack of unpresedented magnitude.
... I don't know what else to say


NOTES:
Inter-Club Association -
The Red Kaganate Web Site is intended as a Resource for all individuals interested in East European and Central and West Asian Medieval History (with a focus towards practical reenactment of the same).
The Red Kaganate Association functions as a sub-group within those Reenactment clubs that permit this (as, for example, a Household in the SCA), its members united in the shared interests espoused by "The Red Kaganate" and following the rules and goals of "The Red Kaganate".
The Red Kaganate Association finally functions as an independent Reenactment club, holding its own events according to its own rules and regulations.
See Structure of the Red Kaganate for further information.

Historical Reenactment, Historical Recreation, Living History -
Attempts have been made in the past to distinguish these three terms as applicable to groups with varying styles of achieving a modern, play acted, version of an earlier historical time, place, and event.
Personally, I am unconvinced that there are inherent differences in description that are communicated by one term over another. I will, therefore, use the three terms interchangeably.
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The Red Kaganate is an association of historic reenactors, living history participants, people who do historic recreation with a focus on Eastern Europe, Western Asia, and Central Asia. Such nations and tribal groups as Russia, the Russ, Turkey, Turkmen, the Ghuz, the Khazars, the Magyars, the Uighur, Persia, India, Hungary, with secondary interests in China and the Middle East (including Arabs and Jews).
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