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Evliya Çelebi (1611–c. 1685), the Ottoman traveller (scholar, courtier, raconteur, dervish, musician, and linguist) journeyed the entire empire and beyond over the course of forty years and authored what is considered the largest travel account in history (ten volumes), providing a unique record of his times. This article focuses on his travels in the Circassian lands where he encountered vampire witches, polities with no rulers, vegetarian tribes, and “other jollities”. His travelogue replete with references to their population, settlements, and troops sheds light on the religious, cultural, and linguistic characteristics of the Circassians as well as their incipient Islamisation.
The Savirs, historical ancestors of the Chuvash, spent more than seven centuries in the Caucasus. In the mid-2nd century they were recorded there by Ptolemy, while in the 860s they were moving up the River Itil (Volga) after living in the North Caucasus-Don area. In the Hun era they fought now on the side of the Persians, now with the Byzantines. After the loss of Hunnish unity, the Savirs became the most powerful social entity in the region. On the basis of the sources, the author considers that the Savirs were very numerous: there may have been up to a million of them, counting warriors and their households.
territory from the North Caucasus to Carpathian Depression and could form chronological reference points for the Pontic-Danubian antiquities of the Late Roman Period. Fig. 1. The cemetery of Frontovoe 3 on the map of the Crimean Peninsula Fig. 2. The
Early medieval finds from the delta of the Don – an attempt at identifying the earliest group of the masque type belt mounts in the Eastern European steppe
Kora középkori leletek a Don deltájából – Kísérlet a Kelet-európai sztyeppéről származó maszkos veretek legkorábbi csoportjának meghatározására
Lower Volga Basin belong to this group from the Sivashovka type burials. Regarding their style, the belt fittings from “Belovod’e” have not good analogies from the North-Caucasus or the North Pontic region. Thus, even the exact site of the finds is not
Graves of the early medieval nomads from the eastern Azov region
Kora középkori nomád temetkezések az Azovi-tenger keleti partvidékéről
Evropy v epohu srednevekovia , 5 : 55 – 72 . Belinskij , A.B. and Härke , H. ( 2018 ). Ritual, society and population at Klin-Yar (North Caucasus). Excavations 1994–1996 in the Iron Age to early medieval cemetery . Vol. 36 . Archäologie in
Újabb preszkíta tőr a Dél-Dunántúlról
Another pre-Scythian dagger from South Transdanubia
AD, Central Europe was subject to at least two major attacks from the east or south-east, which can be traced back to the North Caucasus. At the end of the 7th century BC, the second wave was well documented by finds and sources and led to the
. Belinskij , A.B. , and Härke , H. ( 2018 ). Ritual, society and population at Klin-Yar (North Caucasus): Excavations 1994–1996 in the Iron Age to early
: Хронология древностей Северного Кавказа V—VII вв. [The chronology of the 5th–7th-century antiquities from the North Caucasus] . Москва 1989 . Anke 1998 B. Anke : Studien zur reiternomadischen Kultur des 4. bis 5. Jahrhunderts . BUFM 8 . Weissbach
