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Nomads and Their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe: Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs (Variorum Collected Studies Series: Cs752)

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Author: Peter B. Golden
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 1692800

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9

ISBN: 0860788857
Dewey Decimal Number: 950.08691
EAN: 9780860788850
ASIN: 0860788857

Publication Date: February 2003
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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 mediaeval polities of Transcaucasia, Georgia in particular - in the period from the 6th century to the advent of the Mongols. Secondly, 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.