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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.
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
the Hunnic period, 14 but sporadically it occurred in the 6 th , and even the early 7 th century. Its exemplars are an Abkhazian from Abgidzrakhu and two Crimean specimens from Sakharnaya Golovka, and Suuk-Su. 15 Only one steppe burial had a
