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Article: Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2005
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Vasary, Istvan Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365 Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 246 pp., $85.00, ISBN 0-521-83756-1 Publication Date: April 2005
In this useful work, Istvan Vasary, professor of Turkish and Central Asian studies at Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest, has stressed the impact of the Cuman and Tatar warriors on the history of the medieval Balkan peoples. Vasary, who served as the Hungarian Ambassador to Turkey, 1991-95, and to Iran, 1999-2003, has also published (in Hungarian) The Golden Horde (1986) and History of Pre-Mongol Inner Asia (1993, 2003). The author concentrates on the enduring impact of ...