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    centuries, the Pechenegs controlled much of the steppes of southeast Europe and the Crimean Peninsula. In the 9th century the Pechenegs began a period...
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    The PKP Pecheneg (Pulemyot Kalashnikova Pekhotny "Pecheneg", Russian: Печенег) is a Russian 7.62×54mmR general-purpose machine gun. It is a further development...
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  • Pecheneg in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Pechenegs were a semi-nomadic Turkic tribe. Pecheneg may also refer to: Pecheneg language Pecheneg machine...
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  • The Pecheneg revolt was an uprising of the Pechenegs against the Byzantine Empire, which lasted from 1049 to 1053. In early 1049, the Byzantine emperor...
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  • Pecheneg is an extinct Turkic language spoken by the Pechenegs in Eastern Europe (parts of Southern Ukraine, Southern Russia, Moldova, Romania and Hungary)...
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    menaced in its northern reaches by steppe peoples, the Magyars and the Pechenegs. They launched raids throughout Bulgaria, occasionally reaching Byzantine...
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    Alexios I Komnenos (category Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Pecheneg wars)
    confronted and defeated by the Pechenegs, who forced him to sign a truce and to pay protection money. In 1090 the Pechenegs invaded Thrace again, while Tzachas...
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    deteriorated, as Byzantium increasingly allied with the Pechenegs against them. The Pechenegs were thus secure to raid the lands of the Khazars from their...
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    Battle of Levounion (category Battles involving the Pechenegs)
    join him in battle against the Pechenegs. Won over by Alexios's offer of gold in return for aid against the Pechenegs, the Cumans hurried to join Alexios...
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  • Byzantines against the Hungarians and Pechenegs, but the Bulgarian Empire and Byzantines against the Magyars and Pechenegs. It is possible that the exact location...
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    Franks, Angles, Saxons, Slavs, Avars, Bulgars and, later on, the Vikings, Pechenegs, Cumans and Magyars. Renaissance thinkers such as Petrarch would later...
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    Yaroslav also defended his state against nomadic tribes such as the Pechenegs by constructing a line of forts. He was a patron of literary culture,...
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    meaning Turks?) Ouvar (Avars) Ugin (or Uguz, possibly Oghuz Turks) Bisal (Pechenegs?) Tarna (cf. a Tarniach people who fled to the Avars from the Turks) Khazar...
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    forcing them to invade the Pechenegs' lands between the Volga and Ural rivers. After being expelled from their homeland, the Pechenegs departed for the west...
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    Kurya (khan) (category Pechenegs)
    succeeded by Metiga. It is also possible that he was the leader of the Pechenegs in the 968 siege of Kiev, but since a starting date is unknown, it is...
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    Pechenegs, who were called "Tourkoi" by the Byzantines in the tenth–eleventh centuries. Hence it seems that the Vardariotai were Cumans and Pechenegs...
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    Battle of Beroia (category Battles involving the Pechenegs)
    battle, resulting in the disappearance of the Pechenegs as a distinct, independent people. In 1091, the Pechenegs invaded the Byzantine Empire and were crushingly...
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    writing in his De Administrando Imperio (c. 950 AD) "Patzinakia, the Pecheneg realm, stretches west as far as the Siret River (or even the Eastern Carpathian...
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    the Uyghurs. In the 9th century, the Oghuz from the Aral steppes drove Pechenegs westward from the Emba and Ural River region. In the 10th century, the...
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  • confirm that the Pechenegs had a leader, but the position was not passed down from father to son. In the 10th century, the Pechenegs came into military...
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    steppes north of the Lower Danube in the 830s, but the Bulgarians and the Pechenegs jointly forced them to abandon this region for the lowlands along the...
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    Boniak. Attacked again in 1094 by the Cumans, many Pechenegs were again slain. Some of the Pechenegs fled to Hungary, as the Cumans themselves would do...
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    "wells", and the Pechenegs even were allowed to taste the kissel and mead beverage. Impressed by that show and degustation, Pechenegs decided to lift the...
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    immediately following the Pecheneg retreat, Olga sent a reproachful letter to Sviatoslav. He promptly returned and defeated the Pechenegs, who continued to threaten...
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  • Battle of Dristra (category Battles involving the Pechenegs)
    the Pechenegs were soon after attacked in their rear by the Cumans, their victory at Dorsotolon opened up the Empire's Balkan provinces to Pecheneg raids...
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    the collective name Pecheneg, later carved out a realm, which bordered both the Ouzes and the Khazars, in Eastern Europe. Pechenegs Kankalis (a people...
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    Joseph ben Gorion lists the sons of Togarmas as: Kozar, Pacinak (the Pechenegs), Aliqanosz (the Alans), Bulgar, Ragbiga (or Ragbina/Ranbona), Turqi (possibly...
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    Kyiv on the Dnieper river until the 10th century. After them came the Pechenegs who created a large confederacy, which was subsequently taken over by...
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    relationship with Hoysalas. 1100 KARAKHANID KHANATE KIEVAN RUS' Cumans Pechenegs Kyrgyzs FATIMID CALIPHATE GEORGIA XI XIA Jurchen Kimeks KHITAN EMPIRE...
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    Yaroslav the Wise, Grand prince of Kiev, in his campaigns against the Pechenegs. The so-called Ingvar the Far-Travelled, a Swedish Viking who wanted to...
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