Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365 | ArHiCuP

Resource Name Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365
Author Istvan Vásáry
ISBN 978-0-521-83756-9
Material type Text
Subject history, Turkic peoples, Pre-Ottoman Balkans, oriental military; Balkans (Europe)
Publisher Cambridge University Press, New York

Year 2005
Format 26 cm, 247 p, 3 maps.
Format printing
Language English
Annotation The volume presents the arrival and settlement of the Cumans in different regions of the Balkans, their military force through which they imposed themselves. These were the founders of three successive Bulgarian dynasties (Asenids,Terterids and Shishmanids),and the Wallachian dynasty (Basarabids); they 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. It is aimed at researchers, students and the general public.

Preface – Introduction – Cumans and the Second Bulgarian Empire – Cumans in the Balkans before the Tatar conquest, 1241 – The first period of tatar influence in the Balkans, 1242-1282 – The heyday of Tatar influence in the Balkans, 1280-1301 – Cumans and Tatars on the Serbian scene – Cumans in Byzantine service after the Tatar conquest, 1242-1333 – The Tatars fade away from Bulgaria and Byzantium, 1320-1354 – The emergence of two Romanian principalities in Cumania, 1330, 1364 – Conclusion – Appendix 1: List of geographical names – Appendix 2: Chronological table of dynasties – Appendix 3: Maps – List of abbreviations – Bibliography – Index.

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