- The
Polovtsian dances, or
Polovetsian dances (Russian: Половецкие пляски, tr.
Polovetskie plyaski from the
Russian "Polovtsy" – the name used by the Rus'...
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authors (and a few Arab sources),
while the name used in Rus'
tended to be "
Polovtsian". In
Turkic languages qu, qun, qūn,
quman or
qoman means "pale, sallow...
- the 12th-century
prince Igor
Svyatoslavich against the
invading ****an ("
Polovtsian")
tribes in 1185. He also
incorporated material drawn from two medieval...
- Seversk,
determined to
conquer the
barbarous Polovtsians by
travelling eastward across the Steppes. The
Polovtsians were
apparently a
nomadic tribe originally...
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dominated by two
Turkic nomadic tribes: the ****ans (also
known as the
Polovtsians or Folban) and the Kipchaks. ****ania was
known in
Islamic sources as...
- Könchek, Končak, in
Russian / Ukrainian: Кончак; died in 1187) was a
Polovtsian khan of the 12th century.
Grandson of
Sharukan and son of Otrok, he unified...
- ****an or
Kuman (also
called Kipchak,
Qypchaq or
Polovtsian, self
referred to as
Tatar (tatar til) in
Codex ****anicus) was a West
Kipchak Turkic language...
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Azerbaijan Tatars) The term is
originally not just an exonym,
since the
Polovtsians of
Golden Horde called themselves Tatar. It is also an
endonym to a number...
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still in Paris, he
launched the
Ballets Russes,
initially with Borodin's
Polovtsian Dances from
Prince Igor and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. To present...
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refuge behind a
wooden fence surrounding a
Polovtsian burial site. The captive's fate is
sealed when the
Polovtsians ask
Mstislavich to hand him over – to...
