“Under the Shadow of the Dog” – A New Monograph about the Golden Horde and Its Presence in the Balkans (Book Review: Aleksandar Uzelac. Pod Senkom psa. Tatari i južnoslovenske zemlje u drugoj polovini XIII veka [Under the Shadow of the Dog. Tatars and South Slavic Lands in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century]. Belgrade, Utopija Publ., 2015. 324 p.+ 12 p. with color illustrations). [PDF]
The article offers a critical review of the book of Serbian historian Aleksandar Uzelac, dedicated to the analysis of the relations between the Golden Horde and the Medieval Balkan Slavic states – Bulgaria and Serbia in the second half of the thirteenth ...
Dejan Radičević
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Paleo-Balkan and Slavic contributions to the genetic pool of Moldavians: insights from the Y chromosome. [PDF]
Moldova has a rich historical and cultural heritage, which may be reflected in the current genetic makeup of its population. To date, no comprehensive studies exist about the population genetic structure of modern Moldavians.
Varzari A +7 more
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Uniparental genetic heritage of belarusians: encounter of rare middle eastern matrilineages with a central European mitochondrial DNA pool. [PDF]
Ethnic Belarusians make up more than 80% of the nine and half million people inhabiting the Republic of Belarus. Belarusians together with Ukrainians and Russians represent the East Slavic linguistic group, largest both in numbers and territory ...
Kushniarevich A +22 more
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ISTVÁN VÁSÁRY: Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365. xvi, 230 pp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £48. [PDF]
Lane, George
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The article provides preliminary notes on traditional beliefs and ideas about good and bad and happy and unhappy days known to Tatars in Dobrudja and Polish-Lithuanian Tatars. For this purpose, beliefs related to the days of the week from M.
Veneta Yankova
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Venetian Diplomacy and the Great Horde in the 1470’s. [PDF]
Objective: To investigate Republic of San Marco’s attempts to engage the Great Horde Tatars in war against the Ottoman Empire and find out their consequences. Research materials: The research based on archive documents published in Venice, the Annals of
V.P. Gulevich
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The Serbo-Bulgarian relations at the end of the 13th century [PDF]
Relations between the Serbs and the Bulgarians at the end of the 13th century has been a part of global international relations in the Balkans and in the Danube region.
Mišić Siniša
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Despot Stefan and Byzantium [PDF]
The topic of this paper is one aspect of the relationship between Serbia and Byzantium at the beginning of the 15th Century, during the so-called "despot period" of the reign of Stefan Lazarević (1402-1427), namely the fate of the Byzantine title of ...
Kalić Jovanka
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The Serbian state in the work of Byzantine historian Doucas [PDF]
While the first two chapters of Doucas's historical work present a meagre outline of world history - a sketch which becomes a little more detailed from 1261 on, when the narration reaches the history of the Turks and their conquests in Asia Minor - the ...
Nikolić Maja
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atars in the Danube-Dniester Interfluve in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century
: Research objectives: This article offers a critical overview of the political position and destiny of the Tatar lands between the Danube Delta and the Lower Dniester in the timespan between the death of Özbeg (1313–1341), khan of the Golden Horde, and ...
Uzelac A.
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