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    Cumans or Kumans were a Turkic nomadic people from Central Asia comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confederation who spoke the Cuman language...
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  • Cuman or Kuman (also called Kipchak, Qypchaq or Polovtsian, self referred to as Tatar (tatar til) in Codex Cumanicus) was a West Kipchak Turkic language...
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    Elizabeth the Cuman (1244–1290) was the Queen consort of Stephen V of Hungary. She was regent of Hungary during the minority of her son from 1272 to 1277...
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    The name Cumania originated as the Latin exonym for the Cuman–Kipchak confederation, which was a tribal confederation in the western part of the Eurasian...
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    Tsuman (redirect from Cumań)
    Tsuman (Ukrainian: Цумань; Polish: Cumań) is a rural settlement in Lutsk Raion, Volyn Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located on the left bank of the Putylivka...
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  • Könchek (also spelled Konchak, Könchek, Končak, in Russian / Ukrainian: Кончак; died in 1187) was a Polovtsian khan of the 12th century. Grandson of Sharukan...
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    Ladislaus the Cuman, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1272 to 1290. His mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of a chieftain from the pagan Cumans who had...
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  • The judge of the Cumans (Hungarian: kunok bírája or kunbíró; Latin: iudex Cumanorum) was a short-lived legal office, then an ex officio title in the Hungarian...
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  • The Cumans, also known as "Polovtsians", were a Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confederation. Their homeland...
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    romanized: Kotyan; Hungarian: Kötöny; Arabic: Kutan; later Jonas; fl. 1205–1241) was a Cuman–Kipchak chieftain (khan) and military commander active in the mid-13th century...
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    Kimek–Kipchak confederation and later as part of a confederation with the Cumans. There were groups of Kipchaks in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, China, Syr...
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    Battle of the Kalka River (category Battles involving the Cumans)
    several Rus' principalities, including Kiev and Galicia-Volhynia, and the Cumans under Köten. They were under the joint command of Mstislav the Bold and...
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    Cumaean Sibyl (redirect from Cuman sibyl)
    The Cumaean Sibyl (Latin: Sibylla Cumana) was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony near Naples, Italy. The word...
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  • (languages in bold are still spoken today): Kipchaks Kipchaks in Georgia Cuman people Cuman language Cumania Kalpak Except for the Southern "dialect", which is...
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    constant incursions by nomadic Turkic tribes, such as the Pechenegs and the Cuman-Kipchaks, caused a massive migration of Slavic populations to the safer...
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    who created a large confederacy, which was subsequently taken over by the Cumans and the Kipchaks. The ancestors of Russians are among the Slavic tribes...
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    followed them, and the nomadic Cumans became the dominant power of the steppes in the 1060s. Cooperation between the Cumans and the Vlachs against the Byzantine...
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  • Cumann na mBan (redirect from Cuman na mBan)
    Cumann na mBan (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkʊmˠən̪ˠ n̪ˠə ˈmˠanˠ]; literally "The Women's Council" but in English termed The Irishwomen's Council), abbreviated...
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    The Cuman raid on Poland in 1101 was a plundering expedition of nomads living in the Pontic steppes, known by the Slavs as the Polovtsians. The Cumans crossed...
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    Ambrosia psilostachya is a species of ragweed known by the common names Cuman ragweed and perennial ragweed, and western ragweed. The plant is widespread...
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    century, where they later joined with the Kipchak and established the vast Cuman-Kipchak confederation. While ancient cities Taraz (Aulie-Ata) and Hazrat-e...
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    theories of Vlach, Cuman or partially Cuman. origin. There is no scholarly consensus on the actual origin of the Basarabs as the Cuman hypothesis has not...
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  • Cumann na nGaedheal (Irish pronunciation: [ˈkʊmˠən̪ˠ n̪ˠə ˈŋeːl̪ˠ]; lit. 'Society of the Gaels') was a political party in the Irish Free State, which formed...
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    Kunság (category Cumans)
    of a second and final Cuman colonization in Hungary; while not the only Cuman-inhabited area, it remained the only centre of Cuman self-rule after the end...
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    is proposed that Manavs descend from Cumans and Kipchaks who settled in the Byzantine Empire. A group of Cuman-Kipchaks who headed to the Balkans as...
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    derives from *Koman-dor, meaning "Cuman dog". The breed descends from Tibetan dogs and came from Asia with the Cumans, whose homeland might have been near...
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    Adrianople occurred around Adrianople on April 14, 1205, between Bulgarians and Cumans under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, who only...
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    11th and 12th centuries, the nomadic confederacy of the Turkic-speaking Cumans and Kipchaks was the dominant force in the Pontic steppe north of the Black...
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  • period. The Mamluk-Kipchak language belongs to the Cuman-Kipchak group of Kipchak languages. Other Cuman-Kipchak languages include Kumyk, Karachai-Balkar...
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  • Battle of the Stuhna River (category Battles involving the Cumans)
    Vsevolodovich of Pereyaslavl against the nomadic Cumans. The Kievan forces were defeated. The Cumans raided Rus' soon after the death of Vsevolod and...
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