Tsarina Tamara and the Kipchaks in Georgia: how the Polovtsian cavalry defeated the Seljuks, and the Polovtsian vigilantes married a Georgian princess
The Kipchaks were a Turkic people who lived in the vast territories of Central Asia...
The Kipchaks were a Turkic people who lived in the vast territories of Central Asia...
I am opening a series of articles about the four rulers of Asia, so significant...
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