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The Carpathian Basin before the Hungarians

Pál Engel

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The late Pál Engel (1938-2001) was head of the Medieval Department at the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Tamás Pálosfalvi

Tamás Pálosfalvi

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Andrew Ayton

Andrew Ayton is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Hull. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Realm of St Stephen : A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526

I.B.Tauris, 2001

Book chapter

...The central areas of the Carpathian basin have been quite densely inhabited since Neolithic times. Its earliest known inhabitants were Indo-Europeans, and it was they who named the Carpathians, the Danube and most of its main tributaries...

Introduction

David O Morgan

David O Morgan

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The Coming of the Mongols

I.B.Tauris, 2018

Book chapter

...The Seljuq Turks had had a major impact on Iran. They ruled most of what is now Iran, Iraq and Turkey, as well as adjacent parts of Afghanistan and Central Asia, for over a century. Their empire is conventionally dated from the battle...

The Steppe And The Sown

George Lane

George Lane is Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia at SOAS in the University of London. His previous books are Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran, Genghiz Khan and Mongol Rule, Daily Life in the Mongol Empire and Silk Roads and Steppe Empires. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Short History of The Mongols

I.B. Tauris, 2018

Book chapter

...The Turk has two pairs of eyes, one at the front and the other at the back of his head [… and] spends more time in the saddle than on the ground. Uninterested in craftsmanship or commerce, medicine, geometry, fruit-farming, building...

Epilogue: Fortified Castles of the Middle Islamic/Middle Byzantine Period (Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries)

A. Asa Eger

A. Asa Eger is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He holds a PhD in Islamic Archaeology from the University of Chicago. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Islamic–Byzantine Frontier : Interaction and Exchange Among Muslim and Christian Communities

I.B.Tauris, 2015

Book chapter

...During the Middle Islamic/Middle Byzantine period, there was a secondary peak in settlement, seen in all surveys in which chronological separation within the Islamic periods is possible. This ‘minor’ peak, while not as high as the ‘major...

The Early Life

George Lane

George Lane is Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia at SOAS in the University of London. His previous books are Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran, Genghiz Khan and Mongol Rule, Daily Life in the Mongol Empire and Silk Roads and Steppe Empires. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Short History of The Mongols

I.B. Tauris, 2018

Book chapter

...Chinggis Khan, Temujin, was not born into greatness, nor did greatness come easily to him. The path he took was long and hard, and it was only late in his career that he would have enjoyed any kind of security. That he rewarded the loyalty...

Inner Asia in the Sixth–Ninth Centuries

Michael R. Drompp

Michael R. Drompp is Professor of History at Rhodes College, TN, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Erik Hermans

Erik Hermans

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Encyclopedia entry

...Theme Description The vast expanse of Inner Asia includes several ecological zones; of these, only the steppe—a broad grassland “belt” stretching across Eurasia from Manchuria in the east to Hungary in the west—has been productive in terms...

The Tread Of Tatar Hoof

George Lane

George Lane is Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia at SOAS in the University of London. His previous books are Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran, Genghiz Khan and Mongol Rule, Daily Life in the Mongol Empire and Silk Roads and Steppe Empires. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Short History of The Mongols

I.B. Tauris, 2018

Book chapter

...The seeds for the future shape of the Mongol Empire were sown early in the western campaign. At the time, the command to hunt down the disgraced fugitive, the once mighty Ala al-Din Muhammad Khwarazmshah, and bring him before his nemesis...

Economy

Sergiu Musteață

Sergiu Musteață is an archaeologist from the Republic of Moldova. He holds a Ph.D. in history (1999) and is the author of six books. Since 2012 he has been dean of the History and Geography Faculty of Ion Creanga Pedagogical State University in Chisinau. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Nomads and Natives beyond the Danube and the Black Sea: 700–900 CE

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

Book chapter

...THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT and humans’ daily needs drove the inhabitants of the Carpathian-Danubian regions to practice certain economic activities during the early Middle Ages. The demonstrated demographic growth in the regions to the north...

Habitation

Sergiu Musteață

Sergiu Musteață is an archaeologist from the Republic of Moldova. He holds a Ph.D. in history (1999) and is the author of six books. Since 2012 he has been dean of the History and Geography Faculty of Ion Creanga Pedagogical State University in Chisinau. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Nomads and Natives beyond the Danube and the Black Sea: 700–900 CE

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

Book chapter

...AS A RESULT of field surveys and (rescue or systematic) archaeological excavations, a rich and diverse array of archaeological material regarding the populations to the north of the Lower Danube in the eighth–ninth centuries have been...

The Society of Iranshahr

Touraj Daryaee

Touraj Daryaee is Howard Baskerville Professor in the history of Iran and the Persianate World and Associate Director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He works on the history of ancient and early medieval Iran and is the editor of the International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sasanian Persia : The Rise and Fall of an Empire

I.B. Tauris, 2009

Book chapter

...A constant feature of Iranian history is the symbiotic relationship between the settled population and the nomadic tribes. However, because of the lack of sources we only have a glimpse of this relationship, and it is only when the nomadic...