Desht-i Kipchak

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Desht-i Kipchak was the vast Eurasian steppe region historically inhabited and dominated by the Kipchak Turkic nomadic tribes.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Desht-i Kipchak canonical 1
territories of the White Horde 1

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Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eurasian steppe
historical region
steppe
associatedWithEmpire Mongol Empire
associatedWithPolity Golden Horde
borders Ural Mountains
Volga River
climate continental climate
culturalRegionOf Kipchaks
surface form: Kipchak Turks
dominantEthnicGroup Cumans
Kipchaks
economicActivity animal husbandry
horse breeding
pastoralism
ethnolinguisticGroup Kipchaks
surface form: Kipchak Turks
extendsAcross north of Black Sea
north of Caspian Sea
extendsFrom Danube
surface form: Danube River
extendsTo Irtysh River
historicalPeriod Middle Ages
historicalRole homeland of Kipchak Turkic tribes
zone of interaction between nomads and sedentary states
influenced Kipchak branch of Turkic languages
inhabitedBy Cumans
Kipchaks
Turkic nomads
knownAs Eurasian Steppe
surface form: Cuman–Kipchak steppe

Dasht-i Qipchaq
Eurasian Steppe
surface form: Kipchak steppe
languageFamily Turkic languages
locatedIn Central Asia
Eastern Europe
Eurasia
Pontic–Caspian steppe
mentionedIn Arabic chronicles
Persian chronicles of the Mongol Empire
surface form: Persian chronicles

medieval Islamic geographical sources
modernCountriesWithin Kazakhstan
Moldova
Romania
Russia
Ukraine
partOf Eurasian Steppe
surface form: Great Steppe
religionHistorically Tengrism
surface form: Tengriism
religionLater Islam
strategicImportance pastoral nomadism
trans-Eurasian trade routes
terrainType grassland steppe
usedBy Cuman–Kipchak confederation
Golden Horde
Kipchak Khanate

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kipchak languages historicalCenter Desht-i Kipchak
Sartaqtai appliesToJurisdiction Desht-i Kipchak
this entity surface form: territories of the White Horde