PECHENEGS

pĕchənĕgzˈ or Patzinakspätsĭnäksˈ, nomadic people of the Turkic family. Their original home is not known, but in the 8th and 9th cent. they inhabited the region between the lower Volga and the Urals. Pushed west (c.889) by the Khazars and Cumans, they drove the Magyars before them and settled in S Ukraine on the banks of the Dnieper. They long harassed Kievan Rus and even threatened (934) Constantinople. After unsuccessfully besieging Kiev (968) and killing the Kievan duke Sviatoslav (972), they were defeated (1036) by Yaroslav and moved to the plains of the lower Danube. Attacked (1064) by the Cumans, many Pechenegs were slain or absorbed. After once more besieging Constantinople (c.1091), they were virtually annihilated by Emperor Alexius I. Later there were significant communities of Pechenegs in Hungary.

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The Origin of Russia
Book by Henryk Paszkiewicz; George Allen & Unwin, 1954
Subjects: Russia--History--To 1533
...at Chernigov" III , and so on. Yaroslavs fights with the Pechenegs in 1036 took place in Kiev, "at the spot where Saint Sophia...abundant, and that they were eventually driven northwards by the Pechenegs. 2 Archaeological research on the banks of the Ros has...
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Russian Intelligence Services - Vol. 1
Book by Gennady Bashkov, Claudiu A. Secara, Vladimir Plougin; Algora, 2001
Subjects: Intelligence Service--Russia (Federation)--History, Intelligence Service--Russia--History, Intelligence Service--Soviet Union--History
...her wit. In the summer of 968 AD, the Pechenegs, having allowed the Kievan host of...individual who could pass through the Pechenegs lines and tell Pretich that if he did...made it to the opposite side . The Pechenegs, realizing the charade, went after him...
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The Beginnings of Russian History: an Enquiry into Sources
Book by N. K. Chadwick; Cambridge University Press, 1946
Subjects: Nestor--Ca. 1056-1113, Russia--History--To 1533--Sources
...who depended for his support on the Pechenegs and Poles, is brought to ruin and a...Ugri 1 or Hungarians, the Avars, the Pechenegs, and the Black Ugri or Hungarians i...Russian plains in 915 in the form of the Pechenegs, Igor also appears to have found himself...
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Warfare, State, and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204
Book by John Haldon; UCL Press, 1999
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History, Military, Byzantine Empire--Politics And Government, Military Art And Science--Byzantine Empire, War And Society--Byzantine Empire
...being surrounded by the fiercest of barbarians Hungarians, Pechenegs, Khazars, Rus and so forth. For him, this was a truly frightening...twelfth century of the fierce wars fought between Byzantines and Pechenegs, Turks and Normans, Anna Comnena, daughter of the emperor...
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A History of Russia
Book by Jesse D. Clarkson; Random House, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--History
...pressure from another Turkish group, the Pechenegs or Patzinaks . The Khazars succeeded in ousting the Pechenegs from their then home between the Volga...result, however, was merely that the Pechenegs moved westward, driving before them...
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journal articles on: Pechenegs  - 4 results

 
 
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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
...by mass 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...
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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
...by mass 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...
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The Thousand-Year Old Hungarian State: Historical Considerations(*)
Journal article by Ferenc Glatz; East European Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2000
Subjects: History--Social aspects, Hungarian history, Hungary--History, Nation state (Political science)--Political aspects, National state--Political aspects, Social history, Social history--Modern, 1500-
...as well as military know-how. In the 11th-13th centuries, Pechenegs (bessenyo), Kumans (kun), Jazigs (jasz), Romanians, then in...tolerant toward poorer peoples of eastern cultures, such as the Pechenegs and Gypsies? Our historians are still arguing over this issue...
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Ethnographic Atlas Xxxi: Peoples of Easternmost Europe (1)
Journal article by Dmitri Bondarenko, Alexander Kazankov, Daria Khaltourina, Andrey Korotayev; Ethnology, Vol. 44, 2005
Subjects: Ethnology
...literacy failed (Lucht and Narumov 2001:575). The Gagauz are descendants of various Turkic peoples including the Proto-Bolgars, Pechenegs, and Kypchaks (Kumans), with the evident admixture of the Bolgar Slavs, Moldovans, and Rumanians. Their language is of the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Pechenegs  - 15 results

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Pechenegs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PECHENEGS pech negz or Patzinaks patsinaks , nomadic people...the lower Danube. Attacked (1064) by the Cumans, many Pechenegs were slain or absorbed. After once more besieging Constantinople...Alexius I. Later there were significant communities of Pechenegs in Hungary. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Petchenegs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PETCHENEGS see Pechenegs . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Patzinaks
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PATZINAKS see Pechenegs . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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John II , Byzantine Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...commercial privileges granted the Venetians by Alexius were unsuccessful, but his campaigns against the Magyars, Serbs, and Pechenegs were victorious. He successfully defied Roger II of Sicily, made an alliance with Emperor Conrad III to check growing Norman...
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Tatars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Siberia; unlike the Mongols , they spoke a Turkic language and were possibly akin to the Cumans or Kipchaks and the Pechenegs . They were nomads, moving across the vast Asian and Russian steppes with their families and their herds of cattle and sheep...
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