DOCSLIB.ORG

Ethnic Processes in the Northeast of Central Asia in the Vii-X Centuries

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Ethnic Processes in the Northeast of Central Asia in the Vii-X Centuries SJIF Impact Factor: 6.260| ISI I.F.Value:1.241| Journal DOI: 10.36713/epra2016 ISSN: 2455-7838(Online) EPRA International Journal of Research and Development (IJRD) Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | February 2020 - Peer Reviewed Journal ETHNIC PROCESSES IN THE NORTHEAST OF CENTRAL ASIA IN THE VII-X CENTURIES Alimova Rahima Ruskulovna Doctor of philosophy, Assistant professor, Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan ABSTRACT This article analyzes the stages of formation of tribes and their states, tribal ethnic groups living in the northeast of Central Asia in the 7th-9th centuries. Ethnic processes have also been described in terms of the ethno-cultural community of the people of Central Asia. KEYWORDS: Ethnic Formation, Tribes, Turkic Tribes, Uighurs, Turgeshs, Kimaks, Karluks, Kyrgyz, Kipchaks, Pechengs, Khazars, Oghuzs. INTRODUCTION certain developmental stages and have a common The Central Asian region is the only place language, common sense system, and ethnic identity. where different nations and people have been living Now let's look at the ethnic processes of the together for many centuries. The issue of ethnic population living in Central Asia in the VII-X history and ethnogenesis of the people of Central centuries. In the VII-IX centuries the majority of the Asia has attracted the attention of many scholars. population in Central Asia was Turkish. Some of Scientific works on ethnic issues have been explored them were settled, and the rest were nomadic. by V.V. Bartold, A.A. Semyonov, N.A. Aristov, A.Yu. Yakubovsky, S.G. Agadjanov, K.Shaniyazov, THE MAIN RESULTS AND FINDINGS M.I. Artamanov, L.N. Gumilev, L.V. Oshanin, B.A. VII-XIII асрларда Марказий Осиё Akhmedov, A. Asqarov, R.A. Ageev and their works ҳудудларининг этник таркиpи pир текисда showed the importance of ethnic history and pўлмаган. Turkesh State in Tianshan (beginning of ethnogenesis 8th century), Altai to Manjuria and Uighur state in [10,11,20,5,6,24,3,21,22,23,7,13,14,17,9,8,2]. East Tianshan (mid-8th to mid-IX century), Karluk Studies show that various historical political State in Zhetysu (VIII-IX centuries), Samanid state in processes, military conflicts, and sometimes natural Movarounnahr (IX-XIX centuries) (Ninth century), conditions have led to changes in the changes of Karakhanid state in Eastern Turkestan and living places. This affected the interference of tribes Movarounnahr (beginning of X-XIII centuries), IX- and nations, economic and ethno-cultural XII century in Afghanistan and Khorasan, Ghazni convergence, and migration of economic activities. state, then Seljuk state were in power. Nations were formed at a specific historical The population of Ferghana, Ustrushana, period. During this time, the nations living in the Shash, Sogd, Kesh, Nasaf, Takharistan, Khorezm same area were always in close economic and cultural regions of Central Asia has always been stable, proximity to each other. Ethnic groups or ethnic engaged in farming, handicraft and trade. The people, people, who have lived in the area since ancient times who lived in the middle and lower reaches of East and emigrated from other regions and countries, may Turkestan, Zhetysu, Syrdarya and adjoining steppes, also be actively involved in the ethnic process [21, were mainly Turkic-speaking peoples with nomadic P.74-78] livelihood. A particular ethnic group or component plays a Residents of Movarounnahr have direct leading role in the interethnic convergence. Other ethnic, economic and cultural ties with Afghanistan, ethnic groups are linguistically and culturally India, Tibet and East Turkestan, and Zhetysu in the affiliated with this leading group. Throughout the south. The territory of northern Takharistan in the IX- ethnic process, ethnicities in a given region undergo X centuries was Choghanyan, Khuttalon, Akharun, 2020 EPRA IJRD | Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.36713/epra2016 | www.eprajournals.com |234 | SJIF Impact Factor: 6.260| ISI I.F.Value:1.241| Journal DOI: 10.36713/epra2016 ISSN: 2455-7838(Online) EPRA International Journal of Research and Development (IJRD) Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | February 2020 - Peer Reviewed Journal Kobadian, Badakhshan, Wakhan, Shikinan, and addition to karluk people, there were several Turkic Keren. In southern Takharistan, medieval Turkic tribes and ethnic groups, such as orghu, tukhsi, ethnos lived in the north-eastern provinces of turkesh, az, uz, yoghma and others [21, P. 87] Afghanistan and in northern India, and they were According to the ethnographer K. Shoniyozov, ethnically and culturally connected with the as a result of the struggle with the Western and inhabitants of Movarounnahr, East Turkestan and Eastern Kaganate, the union of the karluks was Zhetysu. divided and several ethno-territorial associations were During the Turkic Khaganate, several Turkic formed. These include: karluks dwelling in the lower tribes living on the Eurasian continent merged into reaches of the Irtysh River, in the southern Altai; large tribal alliances. Some ethnic groups formed karluks dwelling on the slopes of Khangay, Tannu, during the Khaganate (Oghuz, Uigur, Kipchak, Aloda; karluk people living in Turfan Basin, Kirghiz, etc.) were the basis for the formation of Kashghar, Yorkent; karluks living in Takharistan; several ethnic groups that emerged during the Middle karluks living in northwestern India and Kashmir. Ages. In 740, the Uyghur khan Moyunchur (Peylo in As a result of the disintegration of the Turkic Chinese sources) united the tribes and Bashmils, Kaganate, the Turkic tribes united around large tribes having successfully fought against the Eastern Turkic and formed strong tribal alliances, one of which was Khanate and founded the Uighur Kaganate (VIII-IX the Turkesh tribal union. Most of the Turkesh lands centuries) [13,P.398-413;14,С.519-604] Its eastern were settled in the second half of the 7th century in border reached Manchuria and its western border the Ili River valley, on the northern slopes of reached Jungoria. Various information about the Tianshan, and were part of the Dulu tribal alliance. Uigur formation process is available in the sources. Turkeshes were divided into black and yellow groups For example, the Uighur historian, Turghun Almas, of Turkeshes. According to L.N. Gumilyov, the states: “The Uighurs have been living since ancient “yellow” Turkesh consist of ancient tribes living in times in the Tarim Valley, bordering the Karakorum Tarbaghatai and the Ili Valley, and “black” Turkesh - and Tangirtogh ranges, in the Jungaria, on the Irtysh the Abar ethnos who settled here [13, pp.382-386, 14, River, and on the Ili River in the Altai; They lived in pp.427-443] the valleys of Selenga, Orkhon, Tola, and Kerulen In the beginning of the eighth century, rivers” [19,p.6]. Ibn Hordodbex calls the Uighurs the Nushibi tribal alliances and Dulu tribes belonged to Nine-Oguz [11, pp.19-194,50-51,568-569], and gives the newly formed Turkesh tribal alliance. The groups, the following information about the areas in which which did not want to be subject to the Turkesh state, they lived: “Their region is the largest of the Turkic settled in the middle and lower deserts of the countries, they border on China, Tibet and Karluks” Syrdarya and in the Movarounnahr area. Some tribes [15, С.139] in Dulu partly resided in Turkesh state, while some The Uighur tribes united nine tribes during groups migrated westward and settled down on the the Peylo Khanate (742-756). The names of these Volga, and later joined Bulgarians. tribes were given by N.J. Bichurin and L.M. At that time Karluks started getting the Pozdneev in their works: iologe, khuduge, kyuilou, power in Central Asia. With the formation of the mokosige, auchjay, gesa, xuvynsyu, iovuge, xasivu Turkic kaganate (552 CE), Karluks living in the [12, p. 368] western regions of Altai move from there to the Irtysh J.Hamilton mentions these nine tribe names in River coast, from the slopes of the Mongolian Altai to the form of yaglakar, uturkar, turlamvyur, bokasikir, the northern Ila River. Most of them occupied some avuchag, korsar, xogorsu, ayagvyurkar, xieyamvyur. areas of Eastern Turkestan, Ferghana and Takharistan In 840, the Uighur kingdom was defeated by in the VI-VII centuries. Some groups of Karluk the Kirghizs of Enisey. Then the Uighurs retreated to people had settled in Kashmir. The remaining part of East Turkestan. Some of them founded Ganjau State karluks to the north of the Ili River, in the middle of in 847 in Gansu province. The rest of the population the 7th century, became an alliance that united the of the Uighur empire (847-850) came to the Turfan three tribes (meulo), chighil or sebek (chjisi or pofu), oasis and established the Turfan State. Some Uighur and other tribes. This association was preserved in groups resided in Dunhuang, Guajou, Sichuan, ancient Turkic scripts and Chinese sources under the Karashar, Beshbalik, Kucha and Eastern Turkestan. name of “Karluk budun” (“karluk of people”) or Thus, the Uighur kaganate collapsed in the “three karluk”. These tribes established their own middle of the ninth century, and the territory where Karluk Empire (756-940), which ranges from the their descendants lived was now dominated by the Dzhungar Altai to the middle stream of the Syrdarya, Kyrgyz. The northeastern provinces of East Turkestan the Ili, Chu, Talas valleys, the Tianshan slope were under Uighur rule since 840. Turkic-speaking between Balkhash and Issikkul, and Isfijab to Utrar. Kimak and Kipchak tribes lived on the banks of the They encamped Siyab in the Chu River oasis . In 2020 EPRA IJRD | Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.36713/epra2016 | www.eprajournals.com |235 | SJIF Impact Factor: 6.260| ISI I.F.Value:1.241| Journal DOI: 10.36713/epra2016 ISSN: 2455-7838(Online) EPRA International Journal of Research and Development (IJRD) Volume: 5 | Issue: 2 | February 2020 - Peer Reviewed Journal Altai and the Irtysh River, north-west of the early 11th centuries and subordinated Kimakas to Tarbagatay Ranges.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Administrative Management of Territories Inhabited by Kyrgyz and Kipchaks in the Kokand Khanate
    EPRA International Journal of Environmental Economics, Commerce and Educational Management Journal DOI : 10.36713/epra0414 |ISI I.F Value: 0.815|SJIF Impact Factor(2020): 7.572 ISSN:2348 – 814X Volume: 7| Issue: 1| August 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT OF TERRITORIES INHABITED BY KYRGYZ AND KIPCHAKS IN THE KOKAND KHANATE Boboev Mirodillo Kosimjon ugli Student of Fergana State University, Uzbekistan. -----------------------------------ANNOTATION-------------------------------- This article provides information about territories inhabited by Kyrgyz and Kipchaks in the Kokand Khanate, their forms of social, economic and administrative management, as well as their senior management positions. KEYWORDS: Kyrgyz, Kipchak, tribe, khan, governor, mirshab, Kokand, channel, feudal, valley. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCUSSION In the first half of the XIX century, the Kokand khanate was the largest region in Central Asia. The Kokand khanate was bordered by East Turkestan in the east, the Bukhara Emirate and the Khiva Khanate in the west. The territory of the khanate in the north was completely subjugated by three Kazakh juzes and bordered by Russia. The southern borders of the khanate included mountainous areas such as Karategin, Kulob, Darvaz, Shogunan. For these regions, there will be bloody wars with the Emirate of Bukhara, which passed from hand to hand. The territory of the Kokand khanate, in contrast to the Bukhara emirate and the Khiva khanate had many wetlands, valleys and fertile lands. The center of the khanate was the Fergana Valley, where such large cities as Kokand, Margilan, Uzgen, Andizhan, and Namangan were located. Large cities such as Tashkent, Shymkent, Turkestan, Avliyota, Pishtak, Oqmasjid were also under the rule of Kokand khanate. The population of the Kokand khanate is relatively dense, about 3 million.
    [Show full text]
  • Steppe Nomads in the Eurasian Trade1
    Volumen 51, N° 1, 2019. Páginas 85-93 Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADE1 NÓMADAS DE LA ESTEPA EN EL COMERCIO EURASIÁTICO Anatoly M. Khazanov2 The nomads of the Eurasian steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts played an important and multifarious role in regional, interregional transit, and long-distance trade across Eurasia. In ancient and medieval times their role far exceeded their number and economic potential. The specialized and non-autarchic character of their economy, provoked that the nomads always experienced a need for external agricultural and handicraft products. Besides, successful nomadic states and polities created demand for the international trade in high value foreign goods, and even provided supplies, especially silk, for this trade. Because of undeveloped social division of labor, however, there were no professional traders in any nomadic society. Thus, specialized foreign traders enjoyed a high prestige amongst them. It is, finally, argued that the real importance of the overland Silk Road, that currently has become a quite popular historical adventure, has been greatly exaggerated. Key words: Steppe nomads, Eurasian trade, the Silk Road, caravans. Los nómadas de las estepas, semidesiertos y desiertos euroasiáticos desempeñaron un papel importante y múltiple en el tránsito regional e interregional y en el comercio de larga distancia en Eurasia. En tiempos antiguos y medievales, su papel superó con creces su número de habitantes y su potencial económico. El carácter especializado y no autárquico de su economía provocó que los nómadas siempre experimentaran la necesidad de contar con productos externos agrícolas y artesanales. Además, exitosos Estados y comunidades nómadas crearon una demanda por el comercio internacional de bienes exóticos de alto valor, e incluso proporcionaron suministros, especialmente seda, para este comercio.
    [Show full text]
  • The Image of the Cumans in Medieval Chronicles
    Caroline Gurevich THE IMAGE OF THE CUMANS IN MEDIEVAL CHRONICLES: OLD RUSSIAN AND GEORGIAN SOURCES IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES MA Thesis in Medieval Studies CEU eTD Collection Central European University Budapest May 2017 THE IMAGE OF THE CUMANS IN MEDIEVAL CHRONICLES: OLD RUSSIAN AND GEORGIAN SOURCES IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES by Caroline Gurevich (Russia) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Medieval Studies. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU. ____________________________________________ Chair, Examination Committee ____________________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________________ Examiner ____________________________________________ CEU eTD Collection Examiner Budapest May 2017 THE IMAGE OF THE CUMANS IN MEDIEVAL CHRONICLES: OLD RUSSIAN AND GEORGIAN SOURCES IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES by Caroline Gurevich (Russia) Thesis submitted to the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Arts degree in Medieval Studies. Accepted in conformance with the standards of the CEU. ____________________________________________ External Reader CEU eTD Collection Budapest May 2017 THE IMAGE OF THE CUMANS IN MEDIEVAL CHRONICLES: OLD RUSSIAN AND GEORGIAN SOURCES IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES by Caroline Gurevich (Russia) Thesis
    [Show full text]
  • Selected Works of Chokan Valikhanov Selected Works of Chokan Valikhanov
    SELECTED WORKS OF CHOKAN VALIKHANOV CHOKAN OF WORKS SELECTED SELECTED WORKS OF CHOKAN VALIKHANOV Pioneering Ethnographer and Historian of the Great Steppe When Chokan Valikhanov died of tuberculosis in 1865, aged only 29, the Russian academician Nikolai Veselovsky described his short life as ‘a meteor flashing across the field of oriental studies’. Set against his remarkable output of official reports, articles and research into the history, culture and ethnology of Central Asia, and more important, his Kazakh people, it remains an entirely appropriate accolade. Born in 1835 into a wealthy and powerful Kazakh clan, he was one of the first ‘people of the steppe’ to receive a Russian education and military training. Soon after graduating from Siberian Cadet Corps at Omsk, he was taking part in reconnaissance missions deep into regions of Central Asia that had seldom been visited by outsiders. His famous mission to Kashgar in Chinese Turkestan, which began in June 1858 and lasted for more than a year, saw him in disguise as a Tashkent mer- chant, risking his life to gather vital information not just on current events, but also on the ethnic make-up, geography, flora and fauna of this unknown region. Journeys to Kuldzha, to Issyk-Kol and to other remote and unmapped places quickly established his reputation, even though he al- ways remained inorodets – an outsider to the Russian establishment. Nonetheless, he was elected to membership of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society and spent time in St Petersburg, where he was given a private audience by the Tsar. Wherever he went he made his mark, striking up strong and lasting friendships with the likes of the great Russian explorer and geographer Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov-Tian-Shansky and the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
    [Show full text]
  • A Study of the Cultural Grounds in Formation and Growth of Ethnic Challenges in Azerbaijan, Iran
    Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies Copyright 2018 2018, Vol. 5, No. 2, 64-76 ISSN: 2149-1291 A Study of the Cultural Grounds in Formation and Growth of Ethnic Challenges in Azerbaijan, Iran Mansour Salehi1, Bahram Navazeni2, Masoud Jafarinezhad3 This study has been conducted with the aim of finding the cultural bases of ethnic challenges in Azerbaijan and tried to provide the desired solutions for managing ethnic diversity in Iran and proper policy making in order to respect the components and the culture of the people towards increasing national solidarity. In this regard, this study investigates the cultural grounds of the formation and growth of ethnic challenges created and will be created after the Constitutional Revolution in Azerbaijan, Iran. Accordingly, the main question is that what is the most influential cultural ground in formation and growth of ethnic challenges in Azerbaijan? Research method was the in-depth interview, which was followed by an interview with 32 related experts, and after accessing all the results obtained, analysis of interview data and quotative analysis performed with in-depth interview. Findings of the research indicate that emphasis on the language of a country, cultural discrimination, and the non- implementation of Article 15 of the Constitution for the abandonment of Turkish speakers with 39% were the most important domestic cultural ground, and the impact of satellite channels in Turkey and Republic of Azerbaijan with 32% and superior Turkish identity in the vicinity of Azerbaijan with 31%, were the most important external grounds in formation and growth of ethnic challenges in Azerbaijan in Iran.
    [Show full text]
  • O. Karataev TITLE of the ANCIENT TURKS: “KAGAN” (QAGAN) and “ZHABGU” (YABGU)
    ISSN 1563-0269, еISSN 2617-8893 Journal of history. №1 (96). 2020 https://bulletin-history.kaznu.kz IRSTI 03.29.00 https://doi.org/10.26577/JH.2020.v96.i1.02 O. Karataev Kastamonu University, Turkey, Kastamonu, е-mail: [email protected] TITLE OF THE ANCIENT TURKS: “KAGAN” (QAGAN) AND “ZHABGU” (YABGU) The Turks managed to create a huge empire. Territory – from the Altai mountains in the east to the Black Sea in the west, from the upper Yenisei in the north to the upper Amu Darya in the south. At the beginning of the VI century, the territory of Kazakhstan came under the authority of the Turkic Kaganate. Turkic Kaganate is the first state in Kazakhstan. Its basis was the union of Turkic-speaking tribes, which was headed by the kagan. The state, based on tribal traditions, was based on military-administrative management. It was part of a system of relations with such major states of the time as Iran and Byzan- tium. China was a tributary of the kaganate. The title in many cultures played the role of an important indicator of the international prestige of the state. As is known, only members of the Ashin clan had the sacred right to supreme power in the Turkic Kaganate. Possession of one or another title, occupation of one or another place in the political and state structure of society, depended on many circumstances, the main of which was belonging to a particular tribe in a tribal union, clan in a tribe, etc. Social deter- minants (titles, ranks, positions), as the most significant components of ancient Turkic anthroponomy, contained complete information about the social status of the bearer of a given name, its origin and membership in a particular layer of society, data on its place in the political structure of society and the administrative structure .
    [Show full text]
  • Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran
    publications on the near east publications on the near east Poetry’s Voice, Society’s Song: Ottoman Lyric The Transformation of Islamic Art during Poetry by Walter G. Andrews the Sunni Revival by Yasser Tabbaa The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century a Medieval Persian City by John Limbert by Zeynep Çelik The Martyrs of Karbala: Shi‘i Symbols The Tragedy of Sohráb and Rostám from and Rituals in Modern Iran the Persian National Epic, the Shahname by Kamran Scot Aghaie of Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi, translated by Ottoman Lyric Poetry: An Anthology, Jerome W. Clinton Expanded Edition, edited and translated The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914–1952 by Walter G. Andrews, Najaat Black, and by Gudrun Krämer Mehmet Kalpaklı Izmir and the Levantine World, 1550–1650 Party Building in the Modern Middle East: by Daniel Goffman The Origins of Competitive and Coercive Rule by Michele Penner Angrist Medieval Agriculture and Islamic Science: The Almanac of a Yemeni Sultan Everyday Life and Consumer Culture by Daniel Martin Varisco in Eighteenth-Century Damascus by James Grehan Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, edited by Sibel Bozdog˘an and The City’s Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eigh- Res¸at Kasaba teenth Century by Shirine Hamadeh Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid East by Ehud R. Toledano by Daniel Martin Varisco Britons in the Ottoman Empire, 1642–1660 The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade by Daniel Goffman and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port by Nancy Um Popular Preaching and Religious Authority in the Medieval Islamic Near East Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nine- by Jonathan P.
    [Show full text]
  • Án Zimonyi, Medieval Nomads in Eastern Europe
    As promised, after the appearance of Crusaders, in Slavic or Balkan languages, or Russian authors Missionaries and Eurasian Nomads in the 13th ­ who confine themselves to bibliography in their 14th Centuries: A Century of Interaction, Hautala own mother tongue,” Hautala’s linguistic capabili­ did indeed publish an anthology of annotated ties enabled him to become conversant with the Russian translations of the Latin texts.10 In his in­ entire field of Mongol studies (14), for which all troduction, Spinei observes that “unlike West­Eu­ specialists in the Mongols, and indeed all me­ ropean authors who often ignore works published dievalists, should be grateful. 10 Ot “Davida, tsaria Indii” do “nenavistnogo plebsa satany”: ­ Charles J. Halperin antologiia rannikh latinskikh svedenii o tataro­mongolakh (Kazan’: Mardzhani institut AN RT, 2018). ——— István Zimonyi. Medieval Nomads in Eastern Part I, “Volga Bulgars,” the subject of Zimonyi’s Europe: Collected Studies. Ed. Victor Spinei. English­language monograph,1 contains eight arti­ Bucureşti: Editoru Academiei Romăne, Brăila: cles. In “The First Mongol Raids against the Volga­ Editura Istros a Muzueului Brăilei, 2014. 298 Bulgars” (15­23), Zimonyi confirms the report of pp. Abbreviations. ibn­Athir that the Mongols, after defeating the his anthology by the distinguished Hungarian Kipchaks and the Rus’ in 1223, were themselves de­ Tscholar of the University of Szeged István Zi­ feated by the Volga Bolgars, whose triumph lasted monyi contains twenty­eight articles, twenty­seven only until 1236, when the Mongols crushed Volga of them previously published between 1985 and Bolgar resistance. 2013. Seventeen are in English, six in Russian, four In “Volga Bulgars between Wind and Water (1220­ in German, and one in French, demonstrating his 1236)” (25­33), Zimonyi explores the pre­conquest adherence to his own maxim that without transla­ period of Bulgar­Mongol relations further.
    [Show full text]
  • Black Sea-Caspian Steppe: Natural Conditions 20 1.1 the Great Steppe
    The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450 General Editors Florin Curta and Dušan Zupka volume 74 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/ecee The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe By Aleksander Paroń Translated by Thomas Anessi LEIDEN | BOSTON This is an open access title distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which permits any non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided no alterations are made and the original author(s) and source are credited. Further information and the complete license text can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The terms of the CC license apply only to the original material. The use of material from other sources (indicated by a reference) such as diagrams, illustrations, photos and text samples may require further permission from the respective copyright holder. Publication of the presented monograph has been subsidized by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the National Programme for the Development of Humanities, Modul Universalia 2.1. Research grant no. 0046/NPRH/H21/84/2017. National Programme for the Development of Humanities Cover illustration: Pechenegs slaughter prince Sviatoslav Igorevich and his “Scythians”. The Madrid manuscript of the Synopsis of Histories by John Skylitzes. Miniature 445, 175r, top. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Proofreading by Philip E. Steele The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http://catalog.loc.gov/2021015848 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”.
    [Show full text]
  • Central Asia in Xuanzang's Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western
    Recording the West: Central Asia in Xuanzang’s Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions Master’s Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master Arts in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University By Laura Pearce Graduate Program in East Asian Studies Ohio State University 2018 Committee: Morgan Liu (Advisor), Ying Zhang, and Mark Bender Copyrighted by Laura Elizabeth Pearce 2018 Abstract In 626 C.E., the Buddhist monk Xuanzang left the Tang Empire for India in a quest to deepen his religious understanding. In order to reach India, and in order to return, Xuanzang journeyed through areas in what is now called Central Asia. After he came home to China in 645 C.E., his work included writing an account of the countries he had visited: The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions (Da Tang Xi You Ji 大唐西域記). The book is not a narrative travelogue, but rather presented as a collection of facts about the various countries he visited. Nevertheless, the Record is full of moral judgments, both stated and implied. Xuanzang’s judgment was frequently connected both to his Buddhist beliefs and a conviction that China represented the pinnacle of culture and good governance. Xuanzang’s portrayal of Central Asia at a crucial time when the Tang Empire was expanding westward is both inclusive and marginalizing, shaped by the overall framing of Central Asia in the Record and by the selection of local legends from individual nations. The tension in the Record between Buddhist concerns and secular political ones, and between an inclusive worldview and one centered on certain locations, creates an approach to Central Asia unlike that of many similar sources.
    [Show full text]
  • Middlemen and Marcher States in Central Asia and East/West Empire Synchrony Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas D
    Middlemen and marcher states in Central Asia and East/West Empire Synchrony Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas D. Hall, Richard Niemeyer, Alexis Alvarez, Hiroko Inoue, Kirk Lawrence, Anders Carlson, Benjamin Fierro, Matthew Kanashiro, Hala Sheikh-Mohamed and Laura Young Institute for Research on World-Systems University of California-Riverside Draft v.11 -1-06, 8365 words Abstract: East, West, Central and South Asia originally formed somewhat separate cultural zones and networks of interaction among settlements and polities, but during the late Bronze and early Iron Ages these largely separate regional systems came into increasing interaction with one another. Central Asian nomadic steppe pastoralist polities and agricultural oasis settlements mediated the East/West and North/South interactions. Earlier research has discovered that the growth/decline phases of empires in East and West Asia became synchronous around 140 BCE and that this synchrony lasted until about 1800 CE. This paper develops the comparative world-systems perspective on Central Asia and examines the growth and decline of settlements, empires and steppe confederations in Central Asia to test the hypothesis that the East/West empire synchrony may have been caused by linkages that occurred with and across Central Asia. To be presented at the Research Conference on Middlemen Co-sponsored by the All-UC Economic History and All-UC World History Groups, November 3-5, 2006, UCSD IROWS Working Paper #30. http://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows30/irows30.htm This paper is part of a larger research project on “Measuring and modeling cycles of state formation, decline and upward sweeps since the Bronze Age” NSF-SES 057720 http://irows.ucr.edu/research/citemp/citemp.html Earlier research has demonstrated a curious East/West synchrony from 140 BCE to 1800 CE.
    [Show full text]
  • Turkic Languages 161
    Turkic Languages 161 seriously endangered by the UNESCO red book on See also: Arabic; Armenian; Azerbaijanian; Caucasian endangered languages: Gagauz (Moldovan), Crim- Languages; Endangered Languages; Greek, Modern; ean Tatar, Noghay (Nogai), and West-Siberian Tatar Kurdish; Sign Language: Interpreting; Turkic Languages; . Caucasian: Laz (a few hundred thousand speakers), Turkish. Georgian (30 000 speakers), Abkhaz (10 000 speakers), Chechen-Ingush, Avar, Lak, Lezghian (it is unclear whether this is still spoken) Bibliography . Indo-European: Bulgarian, Domari, Albanian, French (a few thousand speakers each), Ossetian Andrews P A & Benninghaus R (1989). Ethnic groups in the Republic of Turkey. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert (a few hundred speakers), German (a few dozen Verlag. speakers), Polish (a few dozen speakers), Ukranian Aydın Z (2002). ‘Lozan Antlas¸masında azınlık statu¨ su¨; (it is unclear whether this is still spoken), and Farklı ko¨kenlilere tanınan haklar.’ In Kabog˘lu I˙ O¨ (ed.) these languages designated as seriously endangered Azınlık hakları (Minority rights). (Minority status in the by the UNESCO red book on endangered lan- Treaty of Lausanne; Rights granted to people of different guages: Romani (20 000–30 000 speakers) and Yid- origin). I˙stanbul: Publication of the Human Rights Com- dish (a few dozen speakers) mission of the I˙stanbul Bar. 209–217. Neo-Aramaic (Afroasiatic): Tu¯ ro¯ yo and Su¯ rit (a C¸ag˘aptay S (2002). ‘Otuzlarda Tu¨ rk milliyetc¸ilig˘inde ırk, dil few thousand speakers each) ve etnisite’ (Race, language and ethnicity in the Turkish . Languages spoken by recent immigrants, refugees, nationalism of the thirties). In Bora T (ed.) Milliyetc¸ilik ˙ ˙ and asylum seekers: Afroasiatic languages: (Nationalism).
    [Show full text]