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Some Notes on the History, the Culture and the Language of the Medieval Qipchaq Cuman Turks

Gökçe Yükselen Abdurrezzak Peler Lecturer, Girne American University

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Yükselen Abdurrezzak Peler, Gökçe , Yükselen Abdurrezzak Peler, G , , Bakı Dövlət Universiteti İlahiyyat Fakültəsinin Elmi Məcmuəsi, Some Notes on the History, the Culture and the Language of the Medieval Qipchaq Cuman Turks, 7, 13, 2010, 421-452, 2010

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Abstract

The Cuman – Qipchaqs had been designated with several names in different sources. They had been named as Qipchaq, Qiphchaq or Xiphshaq by Islamic sources, as Kumanus, Kumanoi, Cumanus or Komani by Byzantine and Latin sources, as Polovets by Old Russian sources, as Falben, Falones, Valani, Valwen or Pallidi by German or German orientated sources, as Xarteshk by Armenian sources and as Qun by Hungarians (Kafesoğlu 1984: 185). The ones apart from the name used by the Islamic sources are all to do with the colour “yellow” and traditionally are regarded to be related with their complexion (Kurat 1992: 71). The denomination Qipchaq, used by Islamic sources is always related to “hollow of a tree” in Turkic sources like the Old Uighur Oghuz Qaghan Epic, the Oghuz-names and Shajara-i Tarākema va Turkî (Kirzioğlu: 1992: 1-14). On the other hand Kafesoğlu (1984: 186) notes that it means “an angry person”

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