Cumans

The Cumans, also known as Kumans, were a group of travelling Turkic people who lived in the area along the Black Sea near the Volga River, the Balkans, and Hungary. The city Kumanovo in the Southeast European country North Macedonia is named after them.^[1]

Map of the State of Cuman-Kipchaks in the 13th Century (1200-1241 period) with todays (2011) borders.

Cumans arriving in Hungary in 1239.^[a]

Polovtsian towers (miniature from the Radziwili Chronicle).

Related pages

• Sakas
• Kipchaks
• Sogdiana
• Scythians

Footnotes

1. • French: Coumans arrivant en Hongrie en 1239.
   • Spanish: Llegada de los cumanos a Hungría en 1239.