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Kingdom Come: Deliverance is one of my favorite video games since I learned some history of central Europe from it, and I really appreciate that you guys made this episode, as well as pointing out the historical flaw regarding the Cuman masks in the game. Thank you guys. 👍🙏
I find it very funny that most portraits sort of try to beautify the person in particular but every single depiction of Henry he looks like a fat thumb man.
The Kipchaks produced some of the greatest Mamluk rulers such as Baybars, Qalawun, Iltutmysh,... the Mamluk Sultanates of Egypt & Delhi were also founded by two Kipchaks both named Aibak
That's not the official name. That is the name given to it by historians to distinguish it from the later period when Circassian Mamluks dominated the ruling class. The official name was Egyptian Sultanate or Egyptian Kingdom or Sultanate of Egypt and the Levant. Sultans where nicknamed Sultan of Arabs, Ajams(Non-Arabs) and Turks.@@orka6848
@@orka6848True the Bahri Mamluk realm was among the three medieval states to be named after the word 'Turk' the two previous ones were the Turk Shahis and Göktürks
This doesn't work like that the fact that mother is kipchak doesn't make you kipchak, this trick works only if one of your grandfather from your father's side was kipchak
I am a Cuman Hungarian or kun magyar, living in a town named after a Cuman prince, Zotmaz. As a physician, scientist and philosopher, I can assure you that we are still very much alive today.
@@MichaelBolar-de8im Consequences of typical Western historiography. No, the Cumans were not wiped out. You can witness right this minute just how difficult it is to wipe out a nation even with sacrosant modern technology. But yes, we assimilated to Hungarians, 800 years is a long time. Yet, Cumans in Hungary are noticable partly through facial characteristics, of course you cannot observe my face just take my word for it, but also we are a bit distinct from the typical westernized masses by fighting spirit, extreme resilience and a strong philosophical flare. Look at Attila József, philosophical poet, for instance or my own vitologia....
@@MichaelBolar-de8im Consequences of typical western historiography. No, the Cumans were not wiped out, you can witness right now how difficult it is to wipe out a nation even with sacrosant modern technology. But yes, we assimilated to Hungarians, 800 years is a long time. Yet, if you really look, Cumans are noticeable even today both in terms of facial features- you cannot observe my face just take my word for it- and a distinct trait of fighting spirit, extreme resilience and a philosophical inclination. Take for instance the example of the philosophical poet, Attila József, or my own vitologia...
Wow, greetings from Romania! I pray for prosperity between my nation and the hungarian and cumanic nations! We also coexisted with the last remaining cumans from today romanian territory and formed Wallachia. Love you you, my friend. 🇷🇴❤🇭🇺
But are kazakhs really the ancestors of cumans? They left before Mongols arrived ( I don't mean to offend you I literally just wanna know more) because nowadays kazakhs have more mongol DNA than cumans ..
@@Dan-sw8tg Kazakhs are mixture of pretty much most of the steppe tribes. I believe you are right, not Cumans but Kipchaks and Kangly before Mongols came. You can Google the list of Kazakh tribes. I am myself from Khongirad tribe.
@@sickturret3587 Kazakhs and Kyrghyz originally spoke Orkhon/Siberian Turkic languages their branches eventually shifted to Kipchak largely due to the influence of the Golden Horde
As a Hungarian living in Serbia, I am proud of my Cuman ancestry. Because there are also four settlements of Cuman origin in this country. And in Hungary, an entire region consists of residents of this origin. Only in the past eight hundred years has it been relatively explained.
Fun Fact: A Cuman contingent was instrumental for the Habsburg victory over the King of Bohemia Ottokar at the battle of the Marchfeld taking place in what is today eastern Austria. Thus helping establish Habsburg rule over central Europe.
They was part of the hungarian army led by a king IV. Laszlo who half cuman. They not part of the habsburg army. The battle of durnkrut deserves a video i think
Thank you for creating this content. I'm always excited to gather more information on the Cuman-Qipchaqs, and your team's work is one of the best I've seen in recent years.
Basically Kipchaks formed modern identity of Kazakhs (one of larger modern tribes is called Kypshak), Tatars, Bashkorts and Nogais. We are all descendants of Kypshaks. Many of those people are still pale nowadays and are called Sary (pale yellow) in Turkic languages.
Ivan Asen II was a very decent general for his time. He made great use of his cavalry in every engagement. Cuman horse archers destroyed Hungarians, Serbians, Latins, and Niceans all around. He didn’t fight many battles however he beat some of the best armies of the time. He dealt with Cuman invasions, Mongol hordes, Latines, and the Epirotes. When the Mongols invaded the country he led the people in the mountains and ambushed them. Killing many of their hosts that crushed the entire region, however this led to the burning of north Bulgaria. He conquered all of Greece north of Thermopylae and took out most of the Latin remnant. He crushed the Epirotes at Klokotnitsa with such force that they could never wield such power ever again. When Cumans served the previous king he killed, Ivan employed them. That moment let him have the most dominating cavalry force of that time.
Sources mention when the Mongols arrived, they basically burned Bulgaria to the ground and it never became powerful again in the Middle Ages. Bulgaria paid tribute to the Mongols for the next 100 years.
@@tuningbullet8468 In 1270's Ivaylo basicly wipped all the Mongol warbands that were roaming bulgarian territory,the punitive expedition that followed was a complete disaster. Nogay's army was stucked under the walls of Silistra for 3 months and was forced to withdraw mid winter.
@@Okiejayjay Friar Caprini in his traveling accounts mentioned how devastated Bulgaria was by the Mongols and how they had to pay tribute to the Golden Horde.
As a Turkish person from Turkey and a linguist, I have a deep interest in Codex Cumanicus, it may be considered one of the first examples of the Romanization of a Turkic language. Just with a brief skimming of the texts in the book, I could comprehend 80% of the words by comparing them to modern Turkish. The book consists of two separate notebooks. The first one is a grammar and dictionary book written by Italian merchants to facilitate trade with the Cumans and the Ilkhanids speaking Persian. This section, which contains the equivalents of Latin words used by Venetians and Genoese merchants in Persian and Cuman, consists of 55 pages. Here, both grammar information, especially verb conjugations, and the names of goods traded are listed trilingually. Not only the names of goods traded, but also religious terms, food and beverage names, animal names, etc., are given in word lists.
In fact Vlad the Impaler and the Basarab Dynasty he belonged to descended from a Carpathian Cuman chief named Thocomerius, maybe gotta rebrand his beef with the Ottomans as a Kipchak-Oghuz war :d
Let's not exagerate with turkic delirium, he maybe was judging his name, nothing else as evidence. In fact, there are some romanians at that time which carried cuman names, maybe they were originally cuman maybe they were vlachs assimilated by cumans.
They belong but Cuman Kipchak thing dissolved by Mongols especially Prince Batu later Khan of the Golden Horde. Also, Vlad person who was lived in the 15th century. Cumans ended in 13th century. If they have blood of turkic cumans it doesn't mean that he was by all his blood. He's gotta love for his European ancestors not for Nomadic Cumans. Hope it helps😀😀😀😀
@@thiephgood comment origin mostly not important that times important is which culture you adapt and grow , influence is important, such as today Anatolia many ethnic origin but they adapt Turkish culture we can think like that
Through the complex ethnic assimilation process of the Kipchak confederation, it is almost impossible to assign an ethnic origin to them. Although they were part of the Second Turkic Khaganate for 50 years, this doesn't make them Turkish by default. Furthermore language is not the same as ethnicity (something Putin hasn't learned or doesn't want to acknowledge in regards to Russian speaking Ukrainians). One should be careful to assign or romanticize a direct link between current day ethnicity to historic peoples; they are far removed and have a completely different context
@@Solidoaf Language is more important than non scientific notion of ethnicity. Probably a single person may have many genes from different people. But driving factor of thinking is language thus language determines persons relation with his nation. Also I didn't write Turkish I wrote Turkic and we can understand eachother with Kipchak because of same language family ties. I see right for me to say I'm proud be part of them. Go try to tell your ideology that tries to separate me, from my relative nations history to non literate people. Proud to be Turkic as Turkish. We all descendants of GökTurks.
@@sedatgorkemyenigun6055 your last sentence contradicts your point about Turkic and Turkish. Language can be adopted due to cultural, economical or military pressure, it's not a direct link to ethnicity. This is especially the case with the Kipchaks. I guess you can ofc be proud that your language is in the same branch if that makes you happy for some reason. Although it's best to leave nationalism or any such emotional notions at the door when you approach history as an academic field
Turk was originally a political name though, not an ethnic name, it was the name for a tribal confederation (which Turkic-speaking tribes were a majority). So all tribes that were a part of the Turk confederation have a right to call themselves Turk. So Kipchaks are Turks, regardless of ethnicity or language. I even know a Mongol who calls himself Turk for this reason, his ancestors were part of the Turk confederation (and thus were Turks) and no one can really say he's wrong.@@Solidoaf
@@Kul-tegin Thank you, I think this illustrates my point about the folly of linking contemporary ethnic identity to historical groups. A 'Turk' may have called himself a Turk because of the confederation he/she was part of, and that has little to do with the current pan-Turkish ethnic identity
how were they different from turco-mongols? "ethnic kipchak" you speak of is just another turkic horse-archer or a heavy cavalry in another country lol.
Сегодняшние Узбеки состоит из трёх Тюркских ветви. Карлуки Огузы Кыпчаки. В 756-940 годы Карлуки создали Карлукский Каганат и в 961 годы Карлуки создали государства Караханидов а известные писатели Карлукский государства Караханидов по имени Юсуф Хос Ходжиб, Махмуд Кошгарий, Ху́жа Ахмад Ясавий написали книги чисто на Карлукском диалекте который сейчас называется узбекский язык. Даже самый древний Минарет в Бухаре, построено в 1127 году по приказу Арсланхан Мухаммад который он был правитель Тюркский государства Караханидов. Огузы создали государства Сельджуков и Хорезмшахов. Во время Чигатайского улуса, Карлукский диалект был главным языком Чигатайского улуса и по этому называли Чигатайский язык. Даже Тамерлан и Мухаммад Бабур написал на Карлукском диалекте. В 1450-1500 годы во главе Узбека Абулхаира и ШейбаниХана пришли Кочевые Узбеки которые являются Тюрки из ветви Кыпчаков и постепенно под власти Кочевых Узбеков, местные Тюрки Карлуки и Огузы тоже начали себя называть Узбеком и Карлукский диалект тоже начали называть узбекский язык. Перед приходом царской России, у нас Узбеков было три государства. Кокандское Ханства Бухарский Эмират Хивинское Ханства. После падения эти государства, власти царской России и Большевики несколько раз нарисовали карту по разному и чтобы ослабить Узбеков, из части территории Узбеков нарисовали киргизстан таджикистан туркменистан а северо-восточной территории Узбеков отдав казахам, из части территории Узбеков нарисовали большой КазССР и специально Узбекам оставили маленький территория отрезав нас от Каспийского моря и от Китая. На севере до озеро Балхаша а на востоке до Китая это часть территории Узбеков Кокандское Ханства.
brief but useful narration of a great past, for us ''Southern; Iran/Iraq/Syrian Turkic & Western; Anatolian, Cyprus and Balkan Turks, '' Cuman and Qipchaks are speakers of Northern Turkic dialect.. through reading the Codex Cumanicus I found it much similar to the Northern and Caucusus; Qarachai, Balkar, Kumuk's dialects, ofcourse with much similarities to our old Oguz words
@@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك ليش هذا الحقد والكراهية على شعب من خلق الله وانت بتعرف انه كل خلق الله الله خلق لهم لغات بتخدم مين بهالحقد هو انت بتعتقد ان الاوربيين اسيادك والا انت سيد نفسك واذا تكره شعبك وتحتقرهم اذا خلليك على هالحقد فنحن ما نتاثر بانتقاد البشر
Cuman-Kipchak or some people in Middle East also call them the red head Turk. Because most of them have red and blonde hair. If you see any red hair Arabs today in the Levant, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Syria there is a high probability that they have Cuman-Kipchak ancestry in their blood because Cuman-Kipchak were the main source of the Muslim army during the middle ages especially in Egypt. The Mamluk Dynasty are Cuman-Kipchak Turkic people.
there is also a fun theory that the "house of basarab" which "drakuleşti" and "daneşti" belong to might have a cuman or pecheneg origin. basar means "to rule" and aba means "father" in turkic. which means vlad the impaler might have an ancestor of cuman turkic or pecheneg turkic.
The ruling Dynastie of Wallachia the Romanian principallity originated from the Kipchaks, Basarab the first was the Descendants from the Kipchaks. ,,Bas or Basar" comes from the verb to rule ,,Aba" is respectful term for father or the head.
At the time of the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223, Prince Mstislav the Daring of Halych was married to the daughter of the Cuman Khan Köten. Consequently, when Khan Köten together with other Cuman Khans decided to fight the advancing Mongols, he asked Prince Mstislav for help, and the Prince of Halych brought along the Prince of Kyiv and the Prince of Chernihiv. It was the trio of the most important Ukrainian princes (although, the term “Ukraine” didn’t exist at the time), and they led some of the lesser princes of the Southern/Western Rus. The lands around Moscow were not represented, and that eventually ensured the rise of Moscow, as the members of the coalition killed Mongolian negotiators sent to disrupt the temporary union of “Ukrainians” and Cumans. That was an unpardonable offense from the Mongolian standpoint. It became really important two decades later when Mongols conquered Rus and chose one of its princes as their primary vassal. They chose the Prince of Vladimir, as he was not guilty of murder (there were other reasons too, for sure). And eventually, the Princes of Moscow inherited that honor. Of course, then-Prince of Vladimir was married to the daughter of Prince Mstislav and his Cuman wife, and their descendants ruled Rus/Russia until the 17th century, but that was to be expected in the close community of Rus rulers.
Very interesting. The Cuman-Kipchaks have always fascinated me because I'm from Iranian Azerbaijan and there are numerous villages named after the Kipchaks in particular. There is one village named after the Cumans as well, in northern tip of the Iranian East Azerbaijan province. It always seemed so wild to me how the Kipchaks also ended up here, must've came either as a part of the Seljuk invasion or the Mongol invasion or maybe but less likely so back in the early Gokturk era.
@@nenenindonu Yes I've read that it's rulers were of Kipchak origin but I didn't know there were also Kipchak tribes that migrated along with the Oghuz Turks, so much so that there's villages named after them.
My brother and grandfather have blonde hair and blue eyes, and I have black hair and brown eyes. I asked my father why and he said that our tribe had intermarriages with Cuman Kipchaks in Crimea.
The founder of medieval Wallachia is possibly, most likely of cuman origins, his name was Basarab I, either his father or grandfather(sources are scarce and not concludent) was Tochomer/ius
The founder of Wallachia and the Basarabian dynasty, Basarab 1 seems to have been a Cuman (he being the great-grandfather of Vlad Dracul). The greatest Romanian historian, Nicolae Iorga, said about Basarab: "the name was clearly Cuman.....but only the name?!?!?". A superb video full of history and very subtle information about the Cumans, we are waiting for a dedicated video about the Dacians, the first ancestors of the Romanians. Thank you!
@@thieph Basarab was cuman, he came to Wallachia from the country of Făgăraş (today's center of Romania, Transylvania). He spoke Romanian from that time and he was Christian. He was practically a Romanianized Cuman, but he was a Cuman. He and his suite of nobles crossed the Carpathian mountains went down to Wallachia and founded the medieval Wallachian state. At that time, as throughout its history, Transylvania had the majority of the population made up of Wallachians, descendants of the Dacians and Romans and then a small percentage of Slavs. A part of the Slavs remained in the historical territories of today's Romania (Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia) but were assimilated by the native population, wich was more numerous. But the majority of the Slavs migrated south of Danube and to the west of the Balkans. For this reason in today's Romanian language 25% of the words are of Slavic origin. The Slavs left their mark on the Romanian language but because they arrived after the language was formed they did not change it morphologically, at the base the Romanian language is also derived from the Latin language. Only later did the Hungarians arrive in the Pannonian plain and it took them 200 years to conquer Transylvania.
This channel is supposed to be a history channel. Dacians being Romanians belongs more in the mythical realm. Completely unsubstantiated and has no place in historical documentaries.
Why do the British paint Turks as Mongols? In ancient and medieval history sources, travelers and historians defined the Turkish peoples as Kipchaks, Cumans, Khazars "Blonde" rather than Asian in phenotype. (Mattia D Edesse, Abul Feda Yosef). , Biruni, Ibn Khaldun, Ibni Rabbihi, Istakhri, Said El Maghribi, Gerdizi, El Mesudi, El Omari, Nizami,, Chronicles of China Tang. Igor Epic..
Stop spreading cheap lies. The Cumans exclusively would usually be described as fair-haired. In line with the traditional, first-hand accounts, the rest of the Turks struck the Europeans as pure-breed Mongoloid. The Ottomans, for example, were called 'Black Arabs' by the Balkan Orthodox people, and the Huns looked Asiatic with dark complexion and holes instead of profiled noses on their faces.
@@Mirko1913 stop lying. Neither the genetics of the proto-Turks nor the genetics of the Ottoman people are compatible with Arabs and East Asians. Why do the chroniclers I wrote in parenthesis and the travelers who visited the Kipchak geography say that they are blonde?
The map was wrong. All territories from Aral sea till old Otrar city in the East till China borders were under rule of Khorezm and mostly two groups Qarluks and Oguz.
@@serkantemiz7565 My father's ancestors migrated from western Russia to northern Crimea and then to the Ottoman Empire. Even my father's grandfather's brother fought in the Russion occupation of Crimea and was burned alive by the Russians when he was captured(His name is written on our family tree and my grandfather mentioned it to my father several times.) Cumans and Pechenegs are among the Turkish tribes lived in the geography described by the elders.Bu yaşlı babam dehşet tatar böreği yapar bu da bi kanıt herhalde haha.
05:30 In Turkic culture white color represents the west and likewise blue - the east, black - the north and the south is red. Those who migrated to western lands from Turkestan and Mongolia often adopted white color such as huns and cumans while eastern Turkic people like Gökturks were using blue banners
@@ganizhunis910 Exactly... When their powerbase has shifted to Anatolia they gave new names for these places as you mentioned which are translated into English in this form. In addition Mediterrenian Sea is ''Akdeniz'' in Turkish, which means 'the Whitesea'' for its western position.
I've never actually read in any historical source that Gokturks used blue banners. I've only come across wolf-head banners and standards, but never the colour mentioned.
@@Kul-tegin I understand but even today the word ''Gok'' means blue sky in Turkic languages :) which means their name' direct translation is Blue Turks. You can type ''blue'' by using ''ctrl f' ' in Wikipedia's Gokturk page as well
That's not what the khan meant for this entity. Cumania was very decentralized and didn't have a central government or ruler. Some tribes were probably subjects of others but nobody ruled over everyone. As others said, they were loosely associated and probably traded together and occasionally banded together in war but they probably waged war amongst one another too
FUN FACT: Yuan dynasty had personal guard contingent made of Kipchaks. Kipchak guards were sent by Yuan emperrors to quel rebellions of Mongol noions (lords) and Yuan remnants. For instance they supported Khubilai against Ariq-Buga. Kipchak guard was also effective at taking Song cities in China. Two commanders are referred numerous times in Yuan Shi: Tutuha and El-Temir, who belonged to Kipchak clans that peacefully joined Mongols. El-Temir was the last commander of Kipchak guard, when he died and the kipchak guard dissolved Yuan dynasty also siezed to exist. (Update: Iw wrote this comment before finishing watching the video. I am glad all this can be found in the video)
@@alexanderyaroslavich2703 Александр Ярославич, есть ссылка, не получилось её прикрепить, напишу в текстовом формате. Автор: Пилипчук Я.В. Кипчаки в Китае. 2014 год.
Interesting thing about the Cumans for me is that, I a Hungarian, am from the Paloc subgroup. Paloc in many Slavic languages is Polovotsy, which is also the same word for Cuman. Many Cumans settled in Hungary, so it’d be interesting to ever find out how linked we are.
The following is from the paper Mitogenomic data indicate admixture components of Asian Hun and Srubnaya origin in the Hungarian Conquerors “Modern Hungarians are genetically very similar to their European neighbors [95] nevertheless they contain some 3-5% East Eurasian components traceable with uniparental markers [29,96,97]. Genome wide SNP data also detected the presence of 4% East Asian component in modern Hungarians [98] with an approximate time of admixture dated to the first millennium AD, corresponding to the invasions of Huns, Onogur-Bulgars, Avars and Hungarian Conquerors from the Asian steppes.”
In Crimea, near the city of Solkhat, the ruins of a mosque built according to a will with funds allocated by Sultan Baybars for his homeland have been preserved.
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Hi, Just wanted to feed-back that the twisting swaying lens effect on the map, particularly around 8:30 is a bit of a nightmare for motion sickness.
Love your videos!💚
Nogai, Baybars, Gluams, Delhis... Thanks. That video is lost piece of puzzel. Thank you.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is one of my favorite video games since I learned some history of central Europe from it, and I really appreciate that you guys made this episode, as well as pointing out the historical flaw regarding the Cuman masks in the game. Thank you guys. 👍🙏
cool video
"I'm feeling quite hungry"- Henry of Skalitz
MOR COCK
English kings throughout history: I have prostituted and passionate women, and yet you only mention Henry VIII
Jesus Christ be Praised!
@@paoloantoniobaladad5895 "Hey Henry has come to see us"
I find it very funny that most portraits sort of try to beautify the person in particular but every single depiction of Henry he looks like a fat thumb man.
I am a Kypchak from Northern Kazakhstan, salem to my brothers and sisters from all over the world!
Thank you for this video!
Сәлем, бауырым)
Salem Qırgızstandan baurym 🇰🇬🤝🇰🇿
Асалаумағалейкум
Salam kazak karındaşım
Embrace Tengri!
The Kipchaks produced some of the greatest Mamluk rulers such as Baybars, Qalawun, Iltutmysh,... the Mamluk Sultanates of Egypt & Delhi were also founded by two Kipchaks both named Aibak
Baybar Ghulam lardan köle, sonra komutan oluyor.
Mameluke states official name was "Et Devlet'üt Türkiyye" which literally translates to "The State of the Türkiye"...
That's not the official name. That is the name given to it by historians to distinguish it from the later period when Circassian Mamluks dominated the ruling class.
The official name was Egyptian Sultanate or Egyptian Kingdom or Sultanate of Egypt and the Levant. Sultans where nicknamed Sultan of Arabs, Ajams(Non-Arabs) and Turks.@@orka6848
@@orka6848True the Bahri Mamluk realm was among the three medieval states to be named after the word 'Turk' the two previous ones were the Turk Shahis and Göktürks
Not Aibak, it is Aybek which means moon/lunar lord/ruler.
my mother comes from Polish Tatars, so I'm also partly Kipchak, best regards, great material as usual😊
Lipka?
This doesn't work like that the fact that mother is kipchak doesn't make you kipchak, this trick works only if one of your grandfather from your father's side was kipchak
@@UA-camModeratorsSuckMyBallsmy father is a Turk and my mother is a Tatar, I am a Turk, your opinion does not interest me
DNA test rules over the jealous naysayers.
Baban nerden
I am a Cuman Hungarian or kun magyar, living in a town named after a Cuman prince, Zotmaz. As a physician, scientist and philosopher, I can assure you that we are still very much alive today.
Greetings from Türkiye to all grandsons of a big nation , the elite warriors of steppes. (I am a physician also)
I thought the cumans were wiped out or assimilated good to see that they are still alive but do they have a different culture than Hungarians?
@@MichaelBolar-de8im Consequences of typical Western historiography. No, the Cumans were not wiped out. You can witness right this minute just how difficult it is to wipe out a nation even with sacrosant modern technology. But yes, we assimilated to Hungarians, 800 years is a long time. Yet, Cumans in Hungary are noticable partly through facial characteristics, of course you cannot observe my face just take my word for it, but also we are a bit distinct from the typical westernized masses by fighting spirit, extreme resilience and a strong philosophical flare. Look at Attila József, philosophical poet, for instance or my own vitologia....
@@MichaelBolar-de8im Consequences of typical western historiography. No, the Cumans were not wiped out, you can witness right now how difficult it is to wipe out a nation even with sacrosant modern technology. But yes, we assimilated to Hungarians, 800 years is a long time. Yet, if you really look, Cumans are noticeable even today both in terms of facial features- you cannot observe my face just take my word for it- and a distinct trait of fighting spirit, extreme resilience and a philosophical inclination. Take for instance the example of the philosophical poet, Attila József, or my own vitologia...
Wow, greetings from Romania!
I pray for prosperity between my nation and the hungarian and cumanic nations!
We also coexisted with the last remaining cumans from today romanian territory and formed Wallachia.
Love you you, my friend. 🇷🇴❤🇭🇺
As a Kazakh, I appreciate this video!
But are kazakhs really the ancestors of cumans? They left before Mongols arrived ( I don't mean to offend you I literally just wanna know more) because nowadays kazakhs have more mongol DNA than cumans ..
@@Dan-sw8tg Kazakhs are mixture of pretty much most of the steppe tribes. I believe you are right, not Cumans but Kipchaks and Kangly before Mongols came. You can Google the list of Kazakh tribes. I am myself from Khongirad tribe.
@@Dan-sw8tg kazakhs, kyrgyz and most tatars belong to kypchak subgroup of turkic languages. so at least linguistically, they are inheritors of them.
@@sickturret3587 Kazakhs and Kyrghyz originally spoke Orkhon/Siberian Turkic languages their branches eventually shifted to Kipchak largely due to the influence of the Golden Horde
@@nenenindonu you are speaking of yenisei kyrgyz. their sucessors speak khakass and tuvan nowadays.
Kings & Generals, thanks for this remarkable video about Qipchaq nomads!
Peace and blessings to everyone 🕊️from Kazakhstan! 🇰🇿
Greetings from Tatarstan!
Best wishes from dear Galiza to all the Kazakhs!
May god help all Kipchak people
best wishes for great Kazakh nation from Poland
Tatars are nobles in our tradition@@vladimir_Ilyich_lenin.
Glad to see a video about my ancestors on your channel. Greetings from Tatarstan!
Do Tatars have Kipchak ancestry? I thought you guys were mainly from turkic Bulgars.
@@Singgen They certainly do. Our language is from the Kipchak family of Turkic languages.
@@Singgenactually Kazan Tatars have both components: Bulgarian and Kipchak (Cuman)
@@SinggenWe are kipchaks
As a Hungarian living in Serbia, I am proud of my Cuman ancestry. Because there are also four settlements of Cuman origin in this country. And in Hungary, an entire region consists of residents of this origin. Only in the past eight hundred years has it been relatively explained.
Nagyapám kishegyesi volt 😂
@@samisami-qb5tl Na, a hegyesiek éppen nem kun származásúak 😂
@@ZsoltJuhász-e1r ő nem is vert volna pofan a besziladodett🥰
Amúgy eppen nagykunsagoak, kunhegyesrol valók
In Kazakh, we call Hungary "Majarstan".
From the word - Magyars, Kazakhs also have a tribe - "majar", which belongs to the middle "clan" of tribes.
As a Tatar Turkic, I am proud of my Kipchak ancestors.
Appreciate the video. i am a kipchak from Kyrgyzstan. We have a tribe named Kipchak
Ive watched almost everything of this channel over the years and would like to once again say a big thanks for all k&g's work.
Fun Fact: A Cuman contingent was instrumental for the Habsburg victory over the King of Bohemia Ottokar at the battle of the Marchfeld taking place in what is today eastern Austria. Thus helping establish Habsburg rule over central Europe.
*CumMan**
Asian chad defining the course of history as always.
They was part of the hungarian army led by a king IV. Laszlo who half cuman. They not part of the habsburg army. The battle of durnkrut deserves a video i think
Fun fact 2: Henry, a Bohemian peasant, could beat 4-6 Cuman at the same time with horses arches. 😂
@buinghiathuan4595 Jesus Christ be praised!
Thank you for creating this content. I'm always excited to gather more information on the Cuman-Qipchaqs, and your team's work is one of the best I've seen in recent years.
Basically Kipchaks formed modern identity of Kazakhs (one of larger modern tribes is called Kypshak), Tatars, Bashkorts and Nogais.
We are all descendants of Kypshaks. Many of those people are still pale nowadays and are called Sary (pale yellow) in Turkic languages.
Tatars don't look so Asian like Kazakhs and Kyrgyz.
Kazakh and kyrgz people hamle ming half turkic.
@@vuhdeembecause slav and Finno-Ugric
@@user-wq7oo1uy9d exactly! Tatar and Kazakh are completely different!
@@vuhdeembecause before the Golden Horde, they were known as the Bulgars
Ivan Asen II was a very decent general for his time. He made great use of his cavalry in every engagement. Cuman horse archers destroyed Hungarians, Serbians, Latins, and Niceans all around. He didn’t fight many battles however he beat some of the best armies of the time. He dealt with Cuman invasions, Mongol hordes, Latines, and the Epirotes. When the Mongols invaded the country he led the people in the mountains and ambushed them. Killing many of their hosts that crushed the entire region, however this led to the burning of north Bulgaria. He conquered all of Greece north of Thermopylae and took out most of the Latin remnant. He crushed the Epirotes at Klokotnitsa with such force that they could never wield such power ever again. When Cumans served the previous king he killed, Ivan employed them. That moment let him have the most dominating cavalry force of that time.
Sources mention when the Mongols arrived, they basically burned Bulgaria to the ground and it never became powerful again in the Middle Ages. Bulgaria paid tribute to the Mongols for the next 100 years.
50 or 60 years yes ,but 100 years no
@@tuningbullet8468 In 1270's Ivaylo basicly wipped all the Mongol warbands that were roaming bulgarian territory,the punitive expedition that followed was a complete disaster. Nogay's army was stucked under the walls of Silistra for 3 months and was forced to withdraw mid winter.
Not really burned to the ground, more just heavily pillaging for around 60 years
@@Okiejayjay Friar Caprini in his traveling accounts mentioned how devastated Bulgaria was by the Mongols and how they had to pay tribute to the Golden Horde.
You forgot to mention their deadliest enemy, Henry of Skalitz who hunted them down by the dozens for what they did to his village.
He was feeling "hungry"
god bless you henry
*CumMan enemy*
Henry has come to see us!
I feel quite Hungary
Good to see Jack Wilson still writing great stuff! Very informative, covered what I have heard of the Cumans, and learned a couple new things!
God damn this channel just has a way with medieval and ancient history
Yet another great vid
To this day the Balkan peninsula and eastern Europe in general is dotted with smalled villages called "Cumanova" (translation: Cuman plains)
As a Turkish person from Turkey and a linguist, I have a deep interest in Codex Cumanicus, it may be considered one of the first examples of the Romanization of a Turkic language. Just with a brief skimming of the texts in the book, I could comprehend 80% of the words by comparing them to modern Turkish. The book consists of two separate notebooks. The first one is a grammar and dictionary book written by Italian merchants to facilitate trade with the Cumans and the Ilkhanids speaking Persian. This section, which contains the equivalents of Latin words used by Venetians and Genoese merchants in Persian and Cuman, consists of 55 pages. Here, both grammar information, especially verb conjugations, and the names of goods traded are listed trilingually. Not only the names of goods traded, but also religious terms, food and beverage names, animal names, etc., are given in word lists.
Interesting information.Could u pls give us the name of the books? Thanx
My first time hearing about these ancient people. I learned something new.
Wow, that art in the series continuously improves! Beautiful
I would really love to visit Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan one day Inshallah
I love the central Asian content! Nomads are so incredibly interesting
Thanks for another historical video of Turkic people❤❤❤❤
Didn't know I need that video...turns out I needed that Video.
Excellent! Looking forward to an episode on Volga Bulgaria.
It was not *Jochi* but *Jebe* & Subedei who pursued for Kotyan all the way to Hungary.
In fact Vlad the Impaler and the Basarab Dynasty he belonged to descended from a Carpathian Cuman chief named Thocomerius, maybe gotta rebrand his beef with the Ottomans as a Kipchak-Oghuz war :d
No
Let's not exagerate with turkic delirium, he maybe was judging his name, nothing else as evidence. In fact, there are some romanians at that time which carried cuman names, maybe they were originally cuman maybe they were vlachs assimilated by cumans.
They belong but Cuman Kipchak thing dissolved by Mongols especially Prince Batu later Khan of the Golden Horde. Also, Vlad person who was lived in the 15th century. Cumans ended in 13th century. If they have blood of turkic cumans it doesn't mean that he was by all his blood. He's gotta love for his European ancestors not for Nomadic Cumans. Hope it helps😀😀😀😀
@@thiephgood comment origin mostly not important that times important is which culture you adapt and grow , influence is important, such as today Anatolia many ethnic origin but they adapt Turkish culture we can think like that
@@lothric_k hungarian sources call him "our disloyal vlach", like our vassal.
Khitan people need their own episode with the tungustic nomads.
I'm so early there's still spiderweb all around comment section.
Lol
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Cringe
Clean your phone
It’s a new comment section… cobwebs imply age…
I'm very happy to see history of Turkic nation. Proud to be part of them. :)
Through the complex ethnic assimilation process of the Kipchak confederation, it is almost impossible to assign an ethnic origin to them. Although they were part of the Second Turkic Khaganate for 50 years, this doesn't make them Turkish by default. Furthermore language is not the same as ethnicity (something Putin hasn't learned or doesn't want to acknowledge in regards to Russian speaking Ukrainians).
One should be careful to assign or romanticize a direct link between current day ethnicity to historic peoples; they are far removed and have a completely different context
@@Solidoaf Language is more important than non scientific notion of ethnicity. Probably a single person may have many genes from different people. But driving factor of thinking is language thus language determines persons relation with his nation. Also I didn't write Turkish I wrote Turkic and we can understand eachother with Kipchak because of same language family ties. I see right for me to say I'm proud be part of them. Go try to tell your ideology that tries to separate me, from my relative nations history to non literate people. Proud to be Turkic as Turkish. We all descendants of GökTurks.
@@sedatgorkemyenigun6055 your last sentence contradicts your point about Turkic and Turkish. Language can be adopted due to cultural, economical or military pressure, it's not a direct link to ethnicity. This is especially the case with the Kipchaks. I guess you can ofc be proud that your language is in the same branch if that makes you happy for some reason. Although it's best to leave nationalism or any such emotional notions at the door when you approach history as an academic field
Turk was originally a political name though, not an ethnic name, it was the name for a tribal confederation (which Turkic-speaking tribes were a majority). So all tribes that were a part of the Turk confederation have a right to call themselves Turk. So Kipchaks are Turks, regardless of ethnicity or language. I even know a Mongol who calls himself Turk for this reason, his ancestors were part of the Turk confederation (and thus were Turks) and no one can really say he's wrong.@@Solidoaf
@@Kul-tegin Thank you, I think this illustrates my point about the folly of linking contemporary ethnic identity to historical groups. A 'Turk' may have called himself a Turk because of the confederation he/she was part of, and that has little to do with the current pan-Turkish ethnic identity
I just played Kingdom Come Deliverance a month ago and this video appeared in my recommendations. Nice!
It's sad why Kingdom Come Deliverance portrayed them as one-dimensional villains. I love their armor and weapons and they seem pretty cool
Cumans and kipchaks are the same people . Chinese and western sources seperated them into different tribes
Next video: The Jurchens!
I wish
Jurchens = Koreans
Khitan: How were you defeated when I have more than 700,000 soldiers and you only have 70,000? Did you use the cheat code?
The main Kipchak land got conquered by Turco-Mongols but still ethnic Kipchaks saved Egypt and India from those mighty Turco-Mongol Invasions.
how were they different from turco-mongols?
"ethnic kipchak" you speak of is just another turkic horse-archer or a heavy cavalry in another country lol.
@@sickturret3587 I love that @2 answers...
4:21 QUN-MAN literally translates to "I am Qun". That's how Turkmen got their name. As always, great vid!
Greetings from a Kipchak from Trabzon Turkey.
Can't believe the timing of this video. Just started playing Kingdom come deliverance again few days ago. Amazing.
Considering where the Magyars came from, there's a certain irony to Lazlo being derided for having steppe culture!
Сегодняшние Узбеки состоит из трёх Тюркских ветви.
Карлуки
Огузы
Кыпчаки.
В 756-940 годы Карлуки создали Карлукский Каганат и в 961 годы Карлуки создали государства Караханидов а известные писатели Карлукский государства Караханидов по имени Юсуф Хос Ходжиб, Махмуд Кошгарий, Ху́жа Ахмад Ясавий написали книги чисто на Карлукском диалекте который сейчас называется узбекский язык. Даже самый древний Минарет в Бухаре, построено в 1127 году по приказу Арсланхан Мухаммад который он был правитель Тюркский государства Караханидов.
Огузы создали государства Сельджуков и Хорезмшахов.
Во время Чигатайского улуса, Карлукский диалект был главным языком Чигатайского улуса и по этому называли Чигатайский язык. Даже Тамерлан и Мухаммад Бабур написал на Карлукском диалекте.
В 1450-1500 годы во главе Узбека Абулхаира и ШейбаниХана пришли Кочевые Узбеки которые являются Тюрки из ветви Кыпчаков и постепенно под власти Кочевых Узбеков, местные Тюрки Карлуки и Огузы тоже начали себя называть Узбеком и Карлукский диалект тоже начали называть узбекский язык.
Перед приходом царской России, у нас Узбеков было три государства.
Кокандское Ханства
Бухарский Эмират
Хивинское Ханства.
После падения эти государства, власти царской России и Большевики несколько раз нарисовали карту по разному и чтобы ослабить Узбеков, из части территории Узбеков нарисовали киргизстан таджикистан туркменистан а северо-восточной территории Узбеков отдав казахам, из части территории Узбеков нарисовали большой КазССР и специально Узбекам оставили маленький территория отрезав нас от Каспийского моря и от Китая.
На севере до озеро Балхаша а на востоке до Китая это часть территории Узбеков Кокандское Ханства.
As a Kingdom come deliverance fan, I appreciate this video about Cumans, thanks for your effort with these quality videos.
Steppe nomads becoming main characters simply because they’re cool part 437.
brief but useful narration of a great past, for us ''Southern; Iran/Iraq/Syrian Turkic & Western; Anatolian, Cyprus and Balkan Turks, '' Cuman and Qipchaks are speakers of Northern Turkic dialect.. through reading the Codex Cumanicus I found it much similar to the Northern and Caucusus; Qarachai, Balkar, Kumuk's dialects, ofcourse with much similarities to our old Oguz words
You have no language and the indigenous Turks were killed because they resembled Gog and Magog
@@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك ليش هذا الحقد والكراهية على شعب من خلق الله وانت بتعرف انه كل خلق الله الله خلق لهم لغات بتخدم مين بهالحقد هو انت بتعتقد ان الاوربيين اسيادك والا انت سيد نفسك واذا تكره شعبك وتحتقرهم اذا خلليك على هالحقد فنحن ما نتاثر بانتقاد البشر
@@jivanselbi3657حقد ايه علي شعب زي ياجوج وماجوج في اشكالهم وطباعهم دولت بيحبو يقتلون بعضهم البعض
I was literally reading about the Cumans yesterday and thinking y’all should make a video on them.
Thank you for information about us!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Comment to the algorithm god's, love the content ❤
Cuman-Kipchak or some people in Middle East also call them the red head Turk. Because most of them have red and blonde hair. If you see any red hair Arabs today in the Levant, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Syria there is a high probability that they have Cuman-Kipchak ancestry in their blood because Cuman-Kipchak were the main source of the Muslim army during the middle ages especially in Egypt. The Mamluk Dynasty are Cuman-Kipchak Turkic people.
Great Video
Want to see Battle of Qatwan covered in this channel - the battle between Khitans and Seljuk Turks.
I find it a bit problematic to refer Arab and Persian sources as merely "Islamic", while European sources aren't called Christian sources.
Cumans and Kipchaks were everywhere just like other historical Turkic nomads 😮
I am Egyptian and I say that the Turks are a strong people
Thank you for the video! 🐺🇰🇿
We thought only Roman & Greek were the most advanced worriers in human history 🥴🥴
can you make videos about anglo sikh wars and breakup of sikh empire i think that would be popular
When you mentioned the pacific wars, I thought you mentioned the war between Chile and the Alliance between Peru and Bolivia. That would be exciting!
Modern Era infantry tactics please. WWII to this day. Maybe aviation and navy later.
there is also a fun theory that the "house of basarab" which "drakuleşti" and "daneşti" belong to might have a cuman or pecheneg origin. basar means "to rule" and aba means "father" in turkic. which means vlad the impaler might have an ancestor of cuman turkic or pecheneg turkic.
Basar - Crush, suppress (rule), obo - tribe
Басараба - Tribe of rulers 🌚
Are the Crimean Tatars related to the Cuman-Kipchaks? OK, got my answer at 18:30 :) Thank you. Great content!
The ruling Dynastie of Wallachia the Romanian principallity originated from the Kipchaks,
Basarab the first was the Descendants from the Kipchaks.
,,Bas or Basar" comes from the verb to rule
,,Aba" is respectful term for father or the head.
I am so happy that you have pronounced Chinggis khaan the Mongolian way 🔥🔥🔥
Beautiful!
Un video sobre los pechenegos
I want more videos about Turkic people and history
The great thing of this platform is that your pronouns of the Great Khaan is correct.
Cuman Qipchaq iranic R1A enjoyer💪
At the time of the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223, Prince Mstislav the Daring of Halych was married to the daughter of the Cuman Khan Köten. Consequently, when Khan Köten together with other Cuman Khans decided to fight the advancing Mongols, he asked Prince Mstislav for help, and the Prince of Halych brought along the Prince of Kyiv and the Prince of Chernihiv.
It was the trio of the most important Ukrainian princes (although, the term “Ukraine” didn’t exist at the time), and they led some of the lesser princes of the Southern/Western Rus. The lands around Moscow were not represented, and that eventually ensured the rise of Moscow, as the members of the coalition killed Mongolian negotiators sent to disrupt the temporary union of “Ukrainians” and Cumans. That was an unpardonable offense from the Mongolian standpoint. It became really important two decades later when Mongols conquered Rus and chose one of its princes as their primary vassal. They chose the Prince of Vladimir, as he was not guilty of murder (there were other reasons too, for sure). And eventually, the Princes of Moscow inherited that honor.
Of course, then-Prince of Vladimir was married to the daughter of Prince Mstislav and his Cuman wife, and their descendants ruled Rus/Russia until the 17th century, but that was to be expected in the close community of Rus rulers.
Great content on a little known group!
The smiley animations is better than before
good stuff
Very interesting. The Cuman-Kipchaks have always fascinated me because I'm from Iranian Azerbaijan and there are numerous villages named after the Kipchaks in particular. There is one village named after the Cumans as well, in northern tip of the Iranian East Azerbaijan province. It always seemed so wild to me how the Kipchaks also ended up here, must've came either as a part of the Seljuk invasion or the Mongol invasion or maybe but less likely so back in the early Gokturk era.
The Eldiguzids who ruled much of Azerbaijan and Iran were Kipchak
@@nenenindonu Yes I've read that it's rulers were of Kipchak origin but I didn't know there were also Kipchak tribes that migrated along with the Oghuz Turks, so much so that there's villages named after them.
do abaut georgia plssss
As a Karachay also are language is Turkish coming from kipchak branch
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Ataturk: Yes, like Latin
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Turkic_languages Karachay(Kipchak Turkish), Turkey(Oghuz Turkish) @@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك
My brother and grandfather have blonde hair and blue eyes, and I have black hair and brown eyes. I asked my father why and he said that our tribe had intermarriages with Cuman Kipchaks in Crimea.
A video on the orgin of surnames would be cool a lot of people don’t realize they are because of the black death
The founder of medieval Wallachia is possibly, most likely of cuman origins, his name was Basarab I, either his father or grandfather(sources are scarce and not concludent) was Tochomer/ius
didn't love the map effect on this one. but fascinating topic none the less.
Noted, thanks for the feedback!
The founder of Wallachia and the Basarabian dynasty, Basarab 1 seems to have been a Cuman (he being the great-grandfather of Vlad Dracul).
The greatest Romanian historian, Nicolae Iorga, said about Basarab: "the name was clearly Cuman.....but only the name?!?!?".
A superb video full of history and very subtle information about the Cumans, we are waiting for a dedicated video about the Dacians, the first ancestors of the Romanians.
Thank you!
While the hungarian chronicles call him vlach, is not clear.
@@thieph Basarab was cuman, he came to Wallachia from the country of Făgăraş (today's center of Romania, Transylvania). He spoke Romanian from that time and he was Christian.
He was practically a Romanianized Cuman, but he was a Cuman.
He and his suite of nobles crossed the Carpathian mountains went down to Wallachia and founded the medieval Wallachian state.
At that time, as throughout its history, Transylvania had the majority of the population made up of Wallachians, descendants of the Dacians and Romans and then a small percentage of Slavs.
A part of the Slavs remained in the historical territories of today's Romania (Transylvania, Moldavia and Wallachia) but were assimilated by the native population, wich was more numerous. But the majority of the Slavs migrated south of Danube and to the west of the Balkans. For this reason in today's Romanian language 25% of the words are of Slavic origin.
The Slavs left their mark on the Romanian language but because they arrived after the language was formed they did not change it morphologically, at the base the Romanian language is also derived from the Latin language. Only later did the Hungarians arrive in the Pannonian plain and it took them 200 years to conquer Transylvania.
@@adriancojanu2940 are you italian because your name is Adrian?
@@thieph Romanian 100%
This channel is supposed to be a history channel.
Dacians being Romanians belongs more in the mythical realm. Completely unsubstantiated and has no place in historical documentaries.
Que tal un video sobre los pechenegos
Watching this while listening Polovstian Dance is so good
Hi kings and generals ❤
Why do the British paint Turks as Mongols? In ancient and medieval history sources, travelers and historians defined the Turkish peoples as Kipchaks, Cumans, Khazars "Blonde" rather than Asian in phenotype.
(Mattia D Edesse, Abul Feda Yosef). , Biruni, Ibn Khaldun, Ibni Rabbihi, Istakhri, Said El Maghribi, Gerdizi, El Mesudi, El Omari, Nizami,, Chronicles of China Tang. Igor Epic..
Stop spreading cheap lies. The Cumans exclusively would usually be described as fair-haired. In line with the traditional, first-hand accounts, the rest of the Turks struck the Europeans as pure-breed Mongoloid. The Ottomans, for example, were called 'Black Arabs' by the Balkan Orthodox people, and the Huns looked Asiatic with dark complexion and holes instead of profiled noses on their faces.
@@Mirko1913 stop lying. Neither the genetics of the proto-Turks nor the genetics of the Ottoman people are compatible with Arabs and East Asians. Why do the chroniclers I wrote in parenthesis and the travelers who visited the Kipchak geography say that they are blonde?
@@ravolisia29The Arab, Persian, and Roman Moroccans laugh at you, brother. They described them as having small eyes
@@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك send source like ı sent
@@ravolisia29 "Blonde hair blue eyed"?? 😂😂 typical line🤣🤣
my ancestors as a Kazakh 🇰🇿💪🏻
Do you have blonde hair? 😂
no but blue eyes@@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك
Henry of Skalitz's best friends
True heroes Sultan Baybars ,, 🛖🏹🌍🏹these drawn images are brilliant vibrant and colorful,,my mother is from Qipchak tripe,,Hi From USA
by the way Rus wasn’t exist yet.. Rus became little princeship early 9 th century
The map was wrong. All territories from Aral sea till old Otrar city in the East till China borders were under rule of Khorezm and mostly two groups Qarluks and Oguz.
Greeting from Kazakhstan🇰🇿❤I am Kazakh, which one of the successors of Qipchak people, and I love and support your video and channel
legends state that the cuman people were big coomers
It is True! There is clan(in qazaq "ru", it means clan, country, state or tribe) named Qipchak(or Kipshak)
Kazakların kumanlarla direk olarak akrabalığı yoktur kipcaklarla olabilir..
Yeah it is@@layazh2753
yeah but Cumans has lots of succesors.
As a Crimean Tatar of Kipchak origin, Thanks for the very informative video of our history.
I believe Ukrainian Cossacks as well have both Kipchak and Rus origins, not only Crimean Tatars (Krymchaks)
@@SemenovOV Yes, but they refuse the Cuman heritage. Rus - according to medieval sources this is not a nationality. It's just a confession
@@SemenovOV Krimchaks not equal to Crimaean Tatars.
No you're European you don't look like turkic
@@EyBossPusi avrupayı silktim
As a Pecheneg-Cuman descended Turk, this detailed explanation piqued my interest. Greetings to the entire Turkic world!!
Where are you from? And How do you know your ancestors are pecheneg?
@@serkantemiz7565 he is probably just balkan turkish and his grandmom cooks great paçanga böreği 😂
@@serkantemiz7565 My father's ancestors migrated from western Russia to northern Crimea and then to the Ottoman Empire. Even my father's grandfather's brother fought in the Russion occupation of Crimea and was burned alive by the Russians when he was captured(His name is written on our family tree and my grandfather mentioned it to my father several times.) Cumans and Pechenegs are among the Turkish tribes lived in the geography described by the elders.Bu yaşlı babam dehşet tatar böreği yapar bu da bi kanıt herhalde haha.
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Hajra Turan!
05:30 In Turkic culture white color represents the west and likewise blue - the east, black - the north and the south is red. Those who migrated to western lands from Turkestan and Mongolia often adopted white color such as huns and cumans while eastern Turkic people like Gökturks were using blue banners
This is what I'm talking about. Even ottoman empire used colours for the sea. Red sea was the Southern sea. Black sea is the northern sea. Simple
@@ganizhunis910 Exactly... When their powerbase has shifted to Anatolia they gave new names for these places as you mentioned which are translated into English in this form. In addition
Mediterrenian Sea is ''Akdeniz'' in Turkish, which means 'the Whitesea'' for its western position.
I've never actually read in any historical source that Gokturks used blue banners. I've only come across wolf-head banners and standards, but never the colour mentioned.
@@Kul-tegin I understand but even today the word ''Gok'' means blue sky in Turkic languages :) which means their name' direct translation is Blue Turks. You can type ''blue'' by using ''ctrl f' ' in Wikipedia's Gokturk page as well
Yes it means blue or celestial but that's not evidence that the flag was blue. It could have been...@@AegeanGreywolf
I remember playing CK3 and being so confused as to what Cumania was. I had never heard of that empire before, despite how huge it was.
because it wasnt an empire, it was groups of tribes loosely associated with each other
@@suchlimk a steppe confederation to be precise. most steppe empires were confederations of different tribes at their core.
@@suchlimk it was definitely a state or empire. It had Khan after all.
@@Raidon8537 its said in the video itself that we dont even know if thats true, as there isnt many (or any at all even) insider sources on cumania
That's not what the khan meant for this entity. Cumania was very decentralized and didn't have a central government or ruler. Some tribes were probably subjects of others but nobody ruled over everyone. As others said, they were loosely associated and probably traded together and occasionally banded together in war but they probably waged war amongst one another too
FUN FACT: Yuan dynasty had personal guard contingent made of Kipchaks. Kipchak guards were sent by Yuan emperrors to quel rebellions of Mongol noions (lords) and Yuan remnants. For instance they supported Khubilai against Ariq-Buga. Kipchak guard was also effective at taking Song cities in China. Two commanders are referred numerous times in Yuan Shi: Tutuha and El-Temir, who belonged to Kipchak clans that peacefully joined Mongols. El-Temir was the last commander of Kipchak guard, when he died and the kipchak guard dissolved Yuan dynasty also siezed to exist. (Update: Iw wrote this comment before finishing watching the video. I am glad all this can be found in the video)
source?
@@alexanderyaroslavich2703 Александр Ярославич, есть ссылка, не получилось её прикрепить, напишу в текстовом формате. Автор: Пилипчук Я.В. Кипчаки в Китае. 2014 год.
Interesting thing about the Cumans for me is that, I a Hungarian, am from the Paloc subgroup. Paloc in many Slavic languages is Polovotsy, which is also the same word for Cuman.
Many Cumans settled in Hungary, so it’d be interesting to ever find out how linked we are.
maybe you are linked but from what I found researching, hungarians on average have 2% steppe ancestry.
The name of the Hungarian Hunyadi Dynasty is also of Cuman etymology
dont forget magyar being steppenomads before settled and finno-ugric branch and not slavic....just saying am not from there @@shindavid6484
The following is from the paper
Mitogenomic data indicate admixture components of Asian Hun and Srubnaya origin in the Hungarian Conquerors
“Modern Hungarians are genetically very similar to their European neighbors [95] nevertheless they contain some 3-5% East Eurasian components traceable with uniparental markers [29,96,97]. Genome wide SNP data also detected the presence of 4% East Asian component in modern Hungarians [98] with an approximate time of admixture dated to the first millennium AD, corresponding to the invasions of Huns, Onogur-Bulgars, Avars and Hungarian Conquerors from the Asian steppes.”
Sure - 3% uralic/stepe/turkic and 60% slavic . @@EzraBenKhazar
In Crimea, near the city of Solkhat, the ruins of a mosque built according to a will with funds allocated by Sultan Baybars for his homeland have been preserved.
Theese drawn images are brilliant. Vibrant and colorful
Drawing ✍🏼 looks like based on real photo images of Central Asian landscape and people, which makes it look really believable
my mother is from Qipchak tribe. Love from Kazakhstan!
The same from Bashkortostan!