-
authors (and a few Arab sources),
while the name used in Rus'
tended to be "
Polovtsian". In
Turkic languages qu, qun, qūn,
quman or
qoman means "pale, sallow...
- The
Polovtsian dances, or
Polovetsian dances (Russian: Половецкие пляски, romanized:
Polovetskie plyaski from the
Russian "Polovtsy" – the name used by...
- The
Kipchaks or Qipchaqs, also
known as
Kipchak Turks or
Polovtsians, were
Turkic nomads and then a
confederation that
existed in the
Middle Ages inhabiting...
- Seversk,
determined to
conquer the
barbarous Polovtsians by
travelling eastward across the Steppes. The
Polovtsians were
apparently a
nomadic tribe originally...
-
account of a
failed raid of Igor
Svyatoslavich (d. 1202)
against the
Polovtsians of the Don
River region.
While some have
disputed the
authenticity of...
-
Central to the
opera is the way the
Russians are
distinguished from the
Polovtsians through melodic characterization.
While Borodin uses
features of Russian...
- Tatar-Mongols who
settled on the
territory of the
Polovtsian steppe gradually mixed with the
Polovtsians. Al-Omari
concludes that
after several generations...
-
lived on the
Middle Volga, and the
Lower Volga had
always been
under the
Polovtsians (Kipchaks). The Arab
author of the late 13th
century Ibn
Vasil reports:...
-
dominated by two
Turkic nomadic tribes: the ****ans (also
known as the
Polovtsians or Folban) and the Kipchaks. ****ania was
known in
Islamic sources as...
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refuge behind a
wooden fence surrounding a
Polovtsian burial site. The captive's fate is
sealed when the
Polovtsians ask
Mstislavich to hand him over – to...
