Cumans

The Cumans, also known as Kumans, were a group of travelling Turkic people who lived in the area along the Black Sea near the Volga River, the Balkans, and Hungary. The city Kumanovo in the Southeast European country North Macedonia is named after them.

Map of the State of Cuman-Kipchaks in the 13th Century (1200-1241 period) with todays (2011) borders.
Polovtsian towers (miniature from the Radziwili Chronicle).

Footnotes

References

  1. ↑ "Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365 von István Vásáry". medimops. Retrieved 2022-12-07.