Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 16 (2008/2009)

The focus of Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi is on the political, social, economic and linguistic history of the peoples of the Eurasian steppes and adjoining regions from late antiquity to the Mongol Empire and its successor states. Among its primary concerns are questions regarding the Iranian steppe peoples, the Huns, the Oghur and Bulghar Turkic peoples, the Sabirs, the Avars, the Khazars and other peoples of the Turk Empire, the Hungarians, Pechenegs, Cumans and peoples of the Mongol Empire. The periodical will also touch on many points in the history of the Slavic world, Crimea, Byzantium, Iran, the Caucasus, the lands of Islam and the peoples of Central and Northern Europe, as well as elucidate various questions of Turkic and steppe history. Aus dem Inhalt/From the contents: - D. Brophy: The Oirat in Eastern Turkistan and the Rise of Afaq Khwaja - F. Dall'Aglio: The Military Alliance between the Cumans and Bulgaria from the Establishment of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom to the Mongol Invasion - A. Dossymbayeva: The Turkic World of the Kazakh Steppes in the System of Medieval Cultures of Central Asian Nomads - P. B. Golden: Ethnogenesis in the Tribal Zone: The Shaping of the Turks - A. H. King: Some 10th Century Material on Asian Toponymy from Sahlan B. Kaysan - A. P. Martinez: The Eurasian Overland and Pontic Trades in the Thirteenth and the Fourteenth Centuries with Special Reference to their Impact on the Golden Horde, the West, and Russia