CUMANS

or Kumansboth: kooˈmänz, nomadic East Turkic people, identified with the Kipchaks (or the western branch of the Kipchaks) and known in Russian as Polovtsi. Coming from NW Asian Russia, they conquered S Russia and Walachia in the 11th cent., and for almost two centuries warred intermittently with the Byzantine Empire, Hungary, and Kiev. They founded a nomadic state in the steppes along the Black Sea, and were active in commerce with Central Asia and Venice. In the early 12th cent. the main Cuman forces were defeated by the Eastern Slavs. The Mongols decisively defeated the Cumans c.1245. Some were sold as slaves, and many took refuge in Bulgaria and also in Hungary, where they were gradually assimilated into the Hungarian culture. Others joined the khanate of the Golden Horde (also called the Western Kipchaks), which was organized on the former Cuman territory in Russia.

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Gesta Hungarorum; The Deeds of the Hungarians
Book by Simon Keza, Laszlo Veszpremy, Frank Schaer; Central European University Press, 1999
Subjects: Hungary--History--1000-1699
...that it notes the campaign against the Cumans in the autumn of 1282, but does not...implies, though never says so, that the Cumans, too, will one day find their place...commemoration of the victory over the rebellious Cumans at Lake H6d seems specifically included...
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Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia - Vol. 1
Book by Volodymyr E. KubijovyČ; University of Toronto Press, 1963
Subjects: Ukraine--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...Bachanag , just as in the period between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries it took its name -- from the Cumans Kipchaks --the Polovtsians--and was also known in medieval western Europe as Cumania. In Islamic Arab-Persian sources...
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Warfare in Inner Asian History: 500-1800
Book by Nicola Di Cosmo; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Asia, Central--History, Military
...Dennis and Ernst Gamillscheg, Das Strategikon des Maurikios , pp. 360 61 (Wien, 1981). bands, rather than proper armies, of Cumans and Pechenegs, Kazakhs and Tatars, Kirghiz and Uzbeks. Various Turkic and Mongolian peoples have been more commonly divided...
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Subotai the Valiant: Genghis Khan's Greatest General
Book by Richard A. Gabriel; Praeger, 2004
Subjects: Genghis Khan--1162-1227, Mongols--History, Sabutai--Ca. 1172-1245
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The Great Battles of Antiquity: A Strategic and Tactical Guide to Great Battles That Shaped the Development of War
Book by Richard A. Gabriel, Donald W. Boose Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Battles, Military History, Ancient, Strategy
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journal articles on: Cumans  - 9 results

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An Examination of Historians' Explanations for the Mongol Withdrawal from East Central Europe
Journal article by Greg S. Rogers; East European Quarterly, Vol. 30, 1996
Subjects: Eastern Europe--13th century AD, Mongols--History, Thirteenth century--Military aspects, War--13th century AD, Wars--13th century AD
...Hungarian forces (sans the recently arrived Cumans who had now departed for the Balkans by...took place regarding the acceptance of Cumans into the country.(16) Denis Sinor states...stated: the asylum given by Bela to the Cumans, fleeing before the Mongols."(17) David...
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Eastern Europe and the Cultural Poetics of the Chivalric Tournament in Medieval Germany: Biterolf Und Dietleib, Ottokar Von Steiermark's Osterreichische Reimchronik and Ludwig Von Eyb's Turnierbuch
Journal article by Alexander Sager; Germano-Slavica, Vol. 14, 2003
Subjects: East European literature--Criticism and interpretation, East European literature--Research
...Bohemians, Poles, Prussians, Vlachs and Cumans--know how to turnieren, that is, to fight...Barbarenvolker, insbesondere die Valwen Cumans, die durch ihr Uberwiegen im Heere dem...pagan men, Bohemians and Flavians i.e.Cumans, who are known in the vernacular as Valwen...
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The Changing Facets of Hungarian Nationalism
Journal article by GyÖrgy Csepeli, Antal ÖrkÉny; Social Research, Vol. 63, 1996
Subjects: Social Sciences--Periodicals
...population movements to the Carpathian Basin where in 1000 they founded the Hungarian Kingdom. The Slavs, Avars, Pechenegs, Cumans, and Jazygians, who were already living in the Carpathian Basin, inextricably mixed with the Hungarians. At the time of the...
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The Changing Facets of Hungarian Nationalism
Journal article by György Csepeli, Antal örkény; Social Research, Vol. 63, 1996
Subjects: Social Sciences
...population movements to the Carpathian Basin where in 1000 they founded the Hungarian Kingdom. The Slavs, Avars, Pechenegs, Cumans, and Jazygians, who were already living in the Carpathian Basin, inextricably mixed with the Hungarians. At the time of the...
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The Other Mediterranean
Journal article by Liuba Derluguian, Georgi Derluguian; New Left Review, Vol. a, 1996
Subjects: Right And Left (Political Science), Socialism
...Amazons) and the less chronologically remote and therefore somewhat better-known Maeotians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Khazars, Cumans and Tatars. Even before the arrival of Russians from the north in the eighteenth century who were themselves prompted by...
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The Land That Time Forgot
Magazine article by Lydia Gard; Geographical, Vol. 78, August 2006
Subjects: Communists--History, Romania--Demographic aspects, Romania--History, Romania--Social aspects
...barrels of burning oil through chutes. With such fortifications, the Saxons held their own against a stream of invaders--Ottomans, Cumans, Tartars and Turks--until the Mongol invasion of 1241-42, when many settlements were destroyed. However, this defeat fuelled...
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War by Other Means: The Legacy of Byzantium
Magazine article by Michael Antonucci; History Today, Vol. 43, February 1993
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History, Diplomacy--History
...troublesome, the Russians were called in. If the Russians were troublesome the Patzinaks (a central Asian tribe) were summoned. The Cumans and Uzes acted as checks on the Patzinaks and so on. The Byzantines almost always had an ally to the geographic rear of a potential...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cumans  - 23 results

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Cumans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CUMANS or Kumans both: koo manz, nomadic East Turkic people, identified with the Kipchaks (or the western branch of the Kipchaks...Venice. In the early 12th cent. the main Cuman forces were defeated by the Eastern Slavs. The Mongols decisively defeated the Cumans c.1245. Some were sold as slaves, and many took refuge in Bulgaria and also in Hungary, where they were gradually assimilated...
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Ladislaus IV
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...successor of Stephen V. Ladislaus became unpopular by favoring the Cumans , from whom he was descended through his mother. During his...against the king, and he was finally slain by the once-favored Cumans. He died heirless; his successor, Andrew III (reigned 1290 1301...
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Kipchaks
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KIPCHAKS see Cumans . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Polovtsi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
POLOVTSI see Cumans . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Kumans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KUMANS see Cumans . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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