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2 days ago · The name Cuman is the name of several villages in Turkey, such as Kumanlar, including the Black Sea region. The indigenous people in the Altai Republic, Kumandins (Kumandy), are descended from the Cumans. [173] By the 17th century, the Kumandins lived along the river Charysh, near its confluence with the river Ob.
- Cuman–Kipchak Confederation
The name Cumania originated as the Latin exonym for the...
- Cuman Language
Cuman or Kuman (also called Kipchak, Qypchaq or Polovtsian,...
- Cuman–Kipchak Confederation
3 days ago · The Crusades of 1239–1241. The Crusades of 1239–1241, also known as the Barons' Crusade, were a series of crusades to the Holy Land that, in territorial terms, were the most successful since the First Crusade. [151] The major expeditions were led separately by Theobald I of Navarre and Richard of Cornwall. [152]
6 days ago · Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, ... (618–907 AD). ... From 1212, the Kara-Khanids in ...
5 days ago · Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. He was inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty as a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.
3 days ago · In the 12th century the Almoravid empire broke up again, only to be taken over by the Almohad invasion, who were defeated by an alliance of the Christian kingdoms in the decisive Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. By 1250, nearly all of Hispania was back under Christian rule with the exception of the Muslim kingdom of Granada.
4 days ago · Al-Andalus [a] ( Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس) was the Muslim -ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern-day Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, and Southern France. The name describes the different Muslim [1] [2] states that controlled these territories at various times between ...
Submit interesting and specific facts about something that you just found out here. TIL Alzheimer’s can pass between humans in rare medical accidents. Handful of patients who received human growth hormone from deceased donors in now-banned practice went on to develop signs.
