The Cumans originally lived east of the Yellow River, in China,[15] making them the only Caucasian people in eastern Asia at the time. The Cumans entered the grassland of Eastern Europe in the 11th century, from where they continued to assault the Byzantine Empire, the Kingdom of Hungary, and Rus - they became arch enemies. - Thomas Page

Interesting. Thanks :) - Eivind

A King of Hungary had a Cuman mother, iirc. - Pete's Got To Go

Mongol invasion of Rus' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... The princes of Rus' first heard of the coming Mongol warriors from the nomadic Cumans. Previously known for pillaging settlers on the frontier, the nomads now preferred peaceful relations, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Seima-Turbino Phenomenon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Denisova hominin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Altai Mountains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 8 -10 sort However some turkologists argue that cossacks are descendants of native Cumans of Ukraine, who lived there long ago before Mongol invasion.[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 8 -22 -13 http://friendfeed.com/biograp... , Nordic Haplogroup interaction ? b Blood type This can be seen with the global frequency patterns of the type B blood allele (shown in the map below). Note that it is highest in Central Asia and lowest among the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia. http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ? 11 -26 Blood group B has its highest frequency in Northern India and neighboring Central Asia, and its incidence diminishes both towards the west and the east, falling to single digit percentages in Spain.[31][32] It is believed to have been entirely absent from Native American and Australian Aboriginal populations prior to the arrival of Europeans in those areas.[32][33] Blood group A is associated with high frequencies in Europe, especially in Scandinavia and Central Europe, although its highest frequencies occur in some Australian Aborigine populations and the {{{{ Blackfoot Indians of Montana http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://friendfeed.com/citizen... .}}}} [34][35] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[[[ 4 -28 sort http://www.nature.com/nature... http://www.unz.com/gnxp... http://www.unz.com/author... [[[[[[[[[[ 6 -8 Huns - Paris? Haplotype vortexes? - Thomas Page

Kazakhs are descendants of the Turkic tribes – Argyns, Khazars, Qarluqs; and of the Kipchaks and Cumans (the Kipchaks and Cumans being one of their major ancestors),[16][17]- Mongolic groups,and other tribes such as the Kankalis, and ancient Iranian nomads like the Sarmatians, Saka and Scythians, and Slavs from East Europe populated the territory between Siberia and the Black Sea and remained in Central Asia and Eastern Europe when the nomadic groups started to invade and conquer the area between the 5th and 13th centuries AD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... “Fine horses and fierce eagles are the wings of the Kazakh” http://www.beforethey.com/tribe... http://www.brainpickings.org/index... http://friendfeed.com/chimbor... http://friendfeed.com/citizen... 3 -28 http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor... - Thomas Page

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2 -23 grassland Eurasian_steppe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Khanate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Orda_(organization) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ tangent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 10 -7 Khagan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page