Cumans And Tatars: Oriental Military In The Pre-ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365

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The Cumans and the Tatars were nomadic warriors of the Eurasian steppe who exerted an enduring impact on the medieval Balkans

• Cumans And Tatars: Oriental Military In The Pre-ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365 available on December 06 2023 from Indigo for 122.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9780521837569 ξ2 registered December 06 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780521837569 ξ1 registered September 24 2012
  
• Product category is Istvan Vasary History Middle East Cumans and Tatars Book

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With this work, István Vásáry presents an extensive examination of their history from 1185 to 1365. The basic instrument of Cuman and Tatar political success was their military force, over which none of the Balkan warring factions could claim victory. As a consequence, groups of the Cumans and the Tatars settled and mingled with the local population in various regions of the Balkans. The Cumans were the founders of three successive Bulgarian dynasties (Asenids, Terterids and Shishmanids) and the Wallachian dynasty (Basarabids). They also played an active role in Byzantium, Hungary and Serbia, with Cuman immigrants being integrated into each country''s elite. This book also demonstrates how the prevailing political anarchy in the Balkans in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries made it ripe for the Ottoman conquest.

^ István Vásáry (2012). 9780521837569, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521837569 (revised Dec 2014)
^ (2012). Cumans And Tatars: Oriental Military In The Pre-ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365 Indigo. ISBN 9780521837569 (revised Dec 2023)