Davor Krištić

Davor Krištić

The Cumans (mid-11th – mid-12th century)

The Cumans were a nomadic people of Turkic origin and the last of the steppe peoples that migrated from Central Asia to Europe before the Mongol invasion. We can include their westward journey in the same wave of nomadic raids…

The Pechenegs (10th – 11th century)

The Pechenegs are one of the many steppe peoples who have lived in the Euro-Asiatic steppes through history. By the end of the 9th century, they occupied areas east of the River Volga and north of the Caspian and the…