Kipchaks — the lost past: a Cumans portrait
Screex Who are the Kipchaks and why were they called so? The term "Polovtsians" and the corresponding historical designation of the Kipchak people, who inhabited the lands from the Volga to…
Kipchaks and the Kyrgyz region of Karkyrakhan
Kipchaks and the Kyrgyz region of KarkyrakhanIn historical sources, the prehistory of the Kipchaks was associated with the people of Sir runic inscriptions, whose name corresponded to the Chinese ethnonym…
The Kipchaks (Polovtsians) are excellent mercenaries
The Kipchaks (Polovtsians) are excellent mercenaries Kypchaks (aka Polovtsians) are Turkic-speaking people, who by conquest were able to occupy the territory of the Pechenegs, reach the Dnieper and the lower…
Mongol conquest of the Kipchak tribes of eastern Desht-i Kipchak
The clash between the Kipchaks and the Mongols was inevitable The Kipchak tribes occupied a vast territory from the Irtysh in the east to the Danube in the west. This…
Who are the Kipchaks and where did they go?
The Kipchaks are a tribe of warriors who have forever migrated and disappeared According to Chinese sources, the earliest Kipchaks - Sars, Shars, Xueyanto - "yellow-headed", roamed in the IV-VII…
Which peoples are descendants of the Kipchaks?
Kipchaks (Kypchaks) is an association of Turkic-speaking tribes that played a significant role in the history of several regions of Eurasia in the IX-XIV centuries. Self-name - Kipchaks (kypchak), later…
All about the Kipchaks of Desht-i Kipchak on the eve of Genghis Khan’s era
One of the most notable persons in the history of the Kipchaks was Terken-khatun from the Imek tribe and the Bayaut clan The earliest mention of the ethnonym "Kypchak" was…