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The Kipchaks, who were horse archers like the Mongols, served as the vanguard and scouts. [28] The Mongols, who appeared to retreat, tricked the Ruthenian–Kipchak force into a trap after suddenly emerging behind the hills and surrounding them. [28] The fleeing Kipchaks were closely pursued, and the Ruthenian camp was massacred. [28]
The Cumans-Kipchaks in Georgia are of an ancient nomadic Turkic people who inhabited large territories from Central Asia to Eastern Europe.They (the Cuman-Kipchak confederation) played an important role in the history of many nations in the region, Georgia among them.
Cumania was known in Islamic sources as Dasht-i Qipchaq, which means "Steppe of the Kipchaks" or "Plain of the Kipchaks" in Persian, [1] and al-Qumāniyīn in Arabic. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Russian sources have referred to Cumania as the "Polovtsian Steppe " ( Polovetskaia Step ), or the "Polovtsian Plain " ( Pole Polovetskoe ).
They are referred to as Polovtsy in Rus', Cumans in Western and Kipchaks in Eastern sources. [ 6 ] Related to the Pecheneg , [ 7 ] they inhabited a shifting area north of the Black Sea and along the Volga River known as Cumania , from which the Cuman–Kipchaks meddled in the politics of the Caucasus and the Khwarazmian Empire .
The Kipchaks peoples — of the Early Middle Ages in Eurasia. See also: Khazars, Pechenegs, Polovtsy, Kievan Rus, Mongols. Subcategories. This category has the ...
The Kipchaks, described by Hudud al-Alam, occupied a separate territory located to the west, approximately in the southeastern part of the Southern Urals. Chinese chroniclers wrote about the mountains of the Kipchak land—in the chronicle Yuanshi these mountains are named Yùlǐbólǐ (玉里伯里), [ 29 ] and the Kipchaks are called Qīnchá ...
Khan Bachman’s death was a major blow to the Cuman-Kipchaks’ fate [36] Sultan Baibars ("white bigcat-Siberian Tiger"/"leopard" in Turkic), fourth Sultan of Egypt from the Mamluk Bahri dynasty. He was one of the commanders of the Egyptian forces that inflicted a devastating defeat on the Seventh Crusade of King Louis IX of France.
Kipchaks, a medieval Turkic people; Kipchak languages, a Turkic language group; Kipchak language, an extinct Turkic language of the Kipchak group; Kipchak Khanate or Golden Horde; Kipchak Mosque, a mosque in the village of Gypjak; Kipchak (village) Kipchak (Aimaq tribe), a tribe of Kyrgyz origin in Afghanistan; Desht-i Kipchak