Cumans

History of Romania

Teutonic Knights fighting Cumans in Cumania. ©Graham Turner

1060 Jan 1

Romania

The arrival of the Cumans in the Lower Danube region was first recorded in 1055.^[43] Cuman groups assisted the rebelling Bulgarians and Vlachs against the Byzantines between 1186 and 1197.^[44] A coalition of Rus' princes and Cuman tribes suffered a sound defeat by the Mongols in the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223.^[45] Shortly thereafter Boricius, a Cuman chieftain,^[46] accepted baptism and the supremacy of the king of Hungary.^[47]

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