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Kypchaks or Kipchaks are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC.

The western Kypchaks were also named Kuman, Kun and Polovtsian (pl. Polovtsy).

Over time they migrated from western Mongolia towards eastern Europe. The Golden Horde was also named Kipchak Khanate.

They arrived in the steppes from the northern shore of the Black Sea during the 12th century, under the pressure of the Mongols. They were pushed out of Inner Mongolia into Khorasan, the Desht'i Kipchak (the Kumans' plains) and into Pannonia.

Finally, they disapeared, assimilated by the indigenous peoples. The modern Northwestern Turkic languages are named after the Kipchaks. Some of the descendents of the Kipchaks are now known as Karaims.

Kypchak is a name of a modern-day KazakhThe Kazakhs Qazaq, Quazaq , (in Kazakh: in Russian: English term is the transliteration from Russian) are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia famous in the past for the fierce love of freedom, skillful horse riding, hunting with semi-dom tribeIn tribal societies, an "us vs. them" mentality frequently exists, probably because those who lack it don't survive conquest by those who possess it. As technological developments prodded larger and larger groups to co-operate together, people came to rea. There are many Kazakhs of Kypchak tribe in modern KazakhstanKazakhstan ( Kazakh: #x49A;қ Qazaqstan Russian: Kazakhstan , also spelled Kazakstan is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Asia and a former republic of the now extinct USSR. It has borders with Russia, the People's Republic of China, and.

The region of KypchakiaKypchakia is a non-sovereign region in the current Commonwealth of Independent States where homelands of major Kypchak- Turkic speaking peoples are located, stretching from Kyrgyzstan in the East to Northern Caucasus/ Chuvashia in the West, and Riazan in spanning a large area between central Asia and the Caucasus is named after the Kypchaks.

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