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  The Tale of the Armament of Igor: Introduction: The Yarosláviči
the river Нея in the Government of Kostromá an affluent of the Unža in the former territory of the Meri].
At the battle of the Nežátin plain [Нежатина нива] Vsévolod and the Russians were defeated; Borís and Izyasláv were slain.
In 1096 Olég Svyatoslávič was defeated at Starodúb, and Tugorkan on the river Trubež; Tugorkan "the father-in-law and foe of Svyatopólk" was brought to Kíev and buried at the crossroads outside Berestovo (a suburb of Kíev).
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/tai/tai14.htm   (1445 words)

  
 Cumans Encyclopedia Article @ Hostilities.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In alliance with the Vlachs and the Bulgarians during the Vlach-Bulgar Rebellion by brothers Asen and Peter of Tarnovo, the Cumans are believed to have played a significant role in the rebellion's final victory over Byzantium and the restoration of Bulgaria's independence (1185).
The Cumans suffered a severe defeat by Great Prince Vladimir Monomakh of Kievan Rus in the 12th century (at the Battle of the Stugna River) and were crushed by the Mongols in 1238, after which most of them fled Wallachia and Moldova and took refuge in Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Byzantine Empire.
The field of Igor Svyatoslavich's battle with the Kypchaks, by Viktor Vasnetsov.
www.hostilities.org /encyclopedia/Cumans   (780 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kaiala River is a tributary of the Donets.
Vladimir: son of Gleb; Rimov: a city on the Sula River that was ravaged by the Polovtsians.
Ros and Sula Rivers are tributaries of the Dnieper.
www.dickinson.edu /~lemelinc/ras100/Igor.htm   (368 words)

  
 Battle of the Stugna River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of the Stugna River (26 May 1093) was a battle between the princes of Kievan Rus (Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Vladimir Monomakh of Chernigov) and the nomadic Cumans tribe (a Turkic peoples).
Approaching the Stugna River the princes were undecided, so they stopped to have a council.
Not like that is the river Stugna - endowed with a meager stream, having fed therefore on other rills and runners, she rent between bushes a youth, prince Rostislav, imprisoning him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Stugna_River   (409 words)

  
 The Tale of the Armament of Igor: Introduction: The Construction of the Poem
The exploits of Olég and his associate Borís Vyáčeslavič, the battle on the Nežátin are mentioned; the author deplores that the children of the civilizing Sun, the Russians were and are wasting their blood in internecine strife.
Section XIII (250-284) describes the battle during the next night, and the morning of the next day; the language is powerful and poetic; the calamity expressed in words of striking simplicity and pathos.
694-718) a curious dialogue between Ígoŕ and the river Donéts, in which the clemency of the river-god to Ígoŕ is contrasted with the cruelty of the Stugná to young Rostíslav Vsévolodic at the battle of 1093 against the Pólovtsy.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/tai/tai21.htm   (1755 words)

  
 The Golden diadem
Three fertile valleys are divided by the Stugna, the Krasna and the Bobritsya rivers.
Staiki is a multi-layered settlement of Trypillya, Zarubinets and Old Rus periods found on the outskirts of the village at a distance of 1.5 km from the river pier and 0.5 km from the brickworks.
district, on the River Supiy by archaeologist I. Shovkoplyas.Reconstruction
www.trypillya.kiev.ua /vinok_eng.htm   (4311 words)

  
 Sviatopolk II of Kiev - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
For instance, he sided with his cousin David of Volhynia in capturing and blinding one of Galician princes.
He also sided with Vladimir Monomakh in several campaigns against the Kypchaks but was defeated in the Battle of the Stugna River (1097).
Sviatopolk's Christian name was Michael, so he encouraged embellishment of St Michael's Abbey in Kiev, which has been known as the Golden-Roofed up to the present.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Svyatopolk_II_of_Kiev   (514 words)

  
 Kipchaks -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The western Kipchaks are also known as Cumans (Kumans, Kuns) in western Europe, and Polovtsi (Polovtsians) in Russia and Ukraine.
Nomadic Turkic people, known in Russian as Polovtsi, coming from the region of the River Irtysh, conquered what is present day southern Ukraine and Russia in the 11th century and founded a nomadic state in the steppes along the Black Sea (Desht-i Qipchaq).
They invaded the territory of Moldavia, Wallachia and part of Transylvania in the 11th century, and from there they continued their plundering of the Byzantine Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary.
en.wikipedia.christams-ornament.com /wiki/Kipchaks   (1288 words)

  
 John Musachi: Brief Chronicle on the Descendants of our Musachi Dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A reference in the text to the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514 proves, however, that John Musachi cannot have died before 1515.
The town of Ohrid is situated beside a lake from which the river Drin springs and in which many carp, trout and other fine fish are caught.
Between the said hamlet and the mountain flows a torrent and near the said torrent, on the mountain side of it, there is a vein of gold.
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And the Div arose and from the treetops it cried, enjoining unknown lands to listen: the land of the Volga, the land on the Azov Sea, the land at the river Sula, is the city of Surozh, the city of Kherson, and you, the idol of the city of Tmutorakan.
She splashed her swan wings at the river Don, by the blu e sea, and splashing, she put an end to the times of good fortune.
The bloody shores of the river Nemiga were sown with misfortune, were strewn with the bones of Russia's sons.
www2.potsdam.edu /mausdc/class/481/igor.rtf   (4030 words)

  
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His battle prowess and his devotion to his elder brother's cause are glowingly described by the poet, in contradistinction to the depiction of Igor himself.
Recent research suggests that by the river Kaialy is meant the small stream known as the Makatikha, a tributary of the Golaia Dolina which flows into the Sukhoi Torets (Getmanets, 1976, pp.313-19).
The matchmakers are obviously the Polovtsians, with young Prince Vladimir Igorevich engaged to marry the daughter of Khan Konchak.
faculty.washington.edu /dwaugh/rus/texts/igorcm.htm   (13513 words)

  
 THE *SLOVO OF IGOR'S FOLK CAMPAIGN (XII century)
The earth groans, Rivers run turbid, Diamond dewdrops cover the fields; Banners wave wanton in the wind: Polovtsi are coming from the Don, 190 From the swelling billow, And from all the climes, - Russian folks retreated.
Yon Oleg fought sedition with his sword And sowed arrows of battles for jusrice; 220 He steps into the golden stirrup In a kingly grad of Tmutorokan.
From the early morn till the eventide, 250 From the evening till the light dawn Tempered steel-tipped arrows fly, Sabres clang on heavy helmets, Kharalug spears clash In the field unknown, Amid the Polovtsian land.
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 Travel-Tourism Gallery
The first castles outside Kyiv that come to mind are the Sudak fortress in Crimea, built by Italian merchants in the 14th century; the Kamyanets-Podilsky fortress, its history inextricably linked to legendary battles; and the Khotyn fortress, which boasts the highest castle walls in all Europe.
Surrounded by a steep gorge carved by the Smotrych River, Kamyanets-Podilsky is considered one of the most well-preserved castles in all of Europe
During the era of the Kyivan Rus, the capital was surrounded not only by walls, but by a complex system of smaller forts that stretched in all directions from the city center along the Stugna, Trubizh, Desna and Ros Rivers.
www.artukraine.com /travel/fortress.htm   (2416 words)

  
 Flights To Kiev
She brought him another son, who drowned after the Battle of the Stugna River, and two daughters, one becoming a nun and another Empress of Germany.
His greatest success was the conquest of Khazaria, which for centuries had been one of the strongest states of Eastern Europe.
Then, as an ally of the Byzantine Empire, which was at war with the Bulgars, Sviatoslav decisively defeated the Bulgars of the Danube (968), thereby paving the way for victories of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/63/flights-to-kiev.html   (1827 words)

  
 The Song of Igor's Campaign,
Igor son of Svyatoslav and grandson of Oleg
Then, across the Russian land, seldom did plowmen shout [hup-hup to their horses] 270 but often did ravens croak as they divided among themselves the cadavers, while jackdaws announced in their own jargon that they were about to fly to the feed.
Then at morn, he drove in his battle axes, 650 opened the gates of Novgorod, shattered the glory of Yaroslav, [and] loped like a wolf to the Nemiga from Dudutki.
800 Not like that," says [Igor], "is the river Stugna: endowed with a meager stream, having fed [therefore] on alien rills and runners, she rent between bushes a youth, prince Rostislav, imprisoning him.
lib.ru /NABOKOW/slovo.txt   (3299 words)

  
 1093 - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Saint Canute's Cathedral was built in Odense, Denmark
May 26 - Battle of the Stugna River (princes of Kievan Rus vs Polovtsy)
November 13 - Battle of Alnwick (Malcolm III of Scotland vs William II of England)
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1093   (135 words)

  
 Sviatopolk_ii_of_kiev info here at en.album-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For instance, he sided with their cousin David of Volhynia in capturing und blinding uncommon of Galician princes.
He sided with Vladimir Monomakh in scant campaigns against the Kypchaks but was defeated in the Battle of the Stugna River (1097).
Sviatopolk's Christian pet name was Michael, so he encouraged embellishment of St Michael's Abbey in Kiev, which has olden notorious as the Golden-Roofed up to the present.
en.album-gasoline-alley.info /Sviatopolk_II_of_Kiev   (687 words)

  
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According to Dmitriy V. Ryaboy, it was political circumstances that caused the Kumans to separate from the Kimaks and moved west.
By Marco Polo's time the people were described as Eastern Christians, “bold sailors, expert archers and fair combatants in battle.” Their province had many towns and castles; they produced silk and cloth of silk interwoven with gold.
Interestingly enough a Ukrainian map of the Duchy of Galicia, shows it extending all the way from the source waters of the Pripet River down to the mouth of the Dniester and Prut rivers at the Black Sea.
www.skumanich.net /historycumanis.htm   (1212 words)

  
 Gjon Muzaka, u le amanet femijëve te tij (1515) - Forumi Shqiptar
Lord Lecca Zaccaria was lord of a town called Dagno (Deja) near the river Drin.
Great expectations were raised when Pope Pius II announced the formation of a crusade, but later, when the said pope died, the expectations began to wane and in the end, the sultan expelled us for our sins, as was the will of God, because we were simply in his way.
Be aware, my sons, that on our land in Tomorica there is a hamlet called Horcova at the side of a mountain, and a river flows past the said hamlet from the other side.
www.forumishqiptar.com /showthread.php?t=41100   (11559 words)

  
 Russian Courier // Information //
On the river Kaiala Sviatopolk ordered that his father be taken between two ambling Hungarian horses to be buried in the Cathedral of St. Sofiia in Kiev.
She splashed her swan wings at the river Don, by the blue sea, and splashing, she put an end to the times of good fortune.
At the river Danube lances sing their song, but it is the voice of Iaroslavna which is heard.
www.russiancourier.com /en/info/history/48647   (3808 words)

  
 Russian history - The Lay of the Host of Igor
In the first battle, on Friday, May 10, 1185, the Russians were victorious over what was apparently merely a rather small scouting detachment of Polovetsians.
Thinking that they, having caught sight of him, were indeed returning to the battle, Igor galloped back toward his own men.
Crossing the Donets River, the two men arrived at the town of Donets.
www.artrusse.ca /History/host_igor.htm   (1648 words)

  
 Czechoslovak eastern resistance - Chronology of events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Members of the Czechoslovak battalion escaped from the German environment at the village of Mohnac where they crossed the river of Severny Donec.
Last units of the brigade arrived to place of gathering (bridgehead on right bank of river Dnepr).
At the same time the rest of brigade built up defense on Stugna river.
www.czechpatriots.com /csmu/chronology.php   (2314 words)

  
 Kipchaks info here at en.articles-on-parenting.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Nomadic Turkic people, published in Russian as Polovtsi, running after from the sector of the River Irtysh, conquered commenced working day southern Ukraine 'n Russia in the 11th century 'n founded a nomadic stand in the steppes onward the Black Sea (Desht-i Qipchaq).
They invaded the territory of Moldavia, Wallachia 'n hunk of Transylvania in the 11th century, 'n from there they continued their plundering of the Byzantine Empire 'n the Kingdom of Hungary.
Kipchaks See also See also Bahri dynasty Battle of the Stugna River Battle of the Kalka River Codex Cumanicus Cumans Khazars Kipchaks in Georgia Mamelukes Pechenegs Tale of Igor's Campaign
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 Consistency List - GEOGRAPHICAL (Soloviev)
Bereg, river banks, specifically on the bank of the Oka river 45 1766-68
Novy Gorodok, town at confluence of Protva and Oka rivers 04 13-14c
Vychegda, river, tributary of N. Dvina 14 1598-1606
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 ON IGOR'S CAMPAIGN
Pride brought Boris Viacheslavich to judgment on the River Kanina.
On the River Kaiala they had shown great boldness to the Khin.
Not such was the River Stugna, having a poor current,
faculty.washington.edu /dwaugh/rus/texts/igortxt2.htm   (3110 words)

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