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Full Title

Nomads and their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs 1st Edition

Author(s)

Peter B. Golden

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781040238844, 9780860788850, 9781003557210, 9781040245897

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The western steppelands of Central Eurasia, stretching from the Danube, through the modern Ukraine and southern Russia, to the Caspian, have historically been the meeting ground of Inner Asian pastoral nomads and the agrarian societies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. This volume deals, firstly, with the interaction of the nomads with their sedentary neighbours – the Kievan Rus’ state and the medieval polities of Transcaucasia, Georgia in particular – in the period from the 6th century to the advent of the Mongols. Second, it looks at questions of nomadic ethnogenesis (Oghuz, Hungarian, Qipchaq), at the evolution of nomadic political traditions and the heritage of the Turk empire, and at aspects of indigenous nomadic religious traditions together with the impact of foreign religions on the nomads – notably the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. A number of articles focus on the Qipchaqs, a powerful confederation of complex Inner Asian origins that played a crucial role in the history of Christian Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia and the Muslim world between the 11th and 13th centuries.