The Kipchaks and the Second Bulgarian Empire
Screex During the formation of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom in the Balkans, the Bulgarians had a new ally, and they were the Kipchaks. They were reliable co-religionists who took part in…
Oguzes, Karluks, Kipchaks: how do the main branches of the Turks differ?
The current Turkic peoples are usually classified by language. This approach is used for the reason that nomadic Turkic groups had high mobility, often mixed with each other and assimilated…
Settlement of the Kipchaks in the first third of the XI century (source analysis)
Gradually expanding the territory of their nomads in the south-western and western directions, the Kipchak and some Kimak tribal associations in the 30s of the XI century. Kipchak and some…
Kipchaks and their role in the formation of Kazakh tribes
The participation of the Kipchaks in the ethnogenesis of Kazakh tribes and clans has been much written in scientific literature. This is also evidenced by the existing in science eponymous…
Hungarian Polovtsians/Kuns
As is known, the medieval kingdom of Hungary included, in addition to Hungary, the territories of all of modern Slovakia and part of Romania.436-7 The data given here about Kuns…
The Kipchak militia of Azerbaijan
As it is known, the Turkic world is divided into two main ethno-linguistic communities - Oguzes and Kipchaks (Kipchaks). Both Oguzes and Kipchaks played a significant role in the history…
Desht-i-Kipchak is a territory of steppe liberty
In the middle of the VI century on the steppe expanses of Central Asia a powerful state was formed, the main population of which was made up of various Turkic-speaking…
Desht-i Kipchak in the XI — early XIII centuries
The XIII century in world history was marked by a unique event - the formation of the Mongol Empire. As V. V. Bartold (1869-1930) noted, never before or after the…
Islamization of the nomads of Desht-i Kipchak
This section of the paper is based on rather traditional oriental texts, which, however, we interpreted in the context of new source studies. Recent attempts (Yudin, De Weese) to use…
TO THE QUESTION OF THE ORIGIN OF THE NAMES KIMAK AND KIPCHAK
G.E. Grumm-Grzhimailo and, following him, L.P. Potapov compared the name of the Kivinskaya volost (KibaKobKoby, as we found out, an ethnonym, which is an intra-Ket dialectal variant of the ethnonym…