Cumania
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The name Cumania originated as the Latin exonym for the Cuman–Kipchak confederation, which was a tribal confederation in the western part of the Eurasian Steppe, between the 10th and 13th centuries. T
Cuman-Qıpčaq warrior-statue with musical instrument carved at its feet (left). Simferopol Museum, Crimea, Ukraine.
Cuman/Kipchak statue, 12th century, Luhansk
Cuman statues, Moscow State Historical Museum
Cuman-Kipchak statue, 12th-13th century, Ukraine
Khazars
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The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who established a major commercial empire in the late 6th century CE spanning the south of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, and western Kazakhsta
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Khazar Khaganate, 650–850
Court of Seljuk ruler Tughril III, circa 1200 CE.
Site of the Khazar fortress at Sarkel (aerial photo from excavations conducted by Mikhail Artamonov in the 1950s).
Sviatoslav I of Kiev (in boat), destroyer of the Khazar Khaganate.