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Article: Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 1, 2005
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Cumans and Tatars : Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365, by Istvan Vasary. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 2005. xvi, 230 pp. $85.00 US (cloth).
Until now, the only monograph on Pechenegs and Cumans available in English was Andras Paloczi-Horwith's Pechenegs, Cumans, Iasians, published fifteen years ago. Vasary's book is an attempt to examine Balkan history between 1185 to 1365 from the point of view of Cuman and Mongol involvement in the region. The book represents the Second Bulgarian Empire, as well as the Romanian medieval principalities of Wallachia and Moldovia as background for understanding the role of the Cumans and later ...
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