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- noun historical A member of a certain nomadic Turkic people of central Asia who ruled parts of Eurasia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages
- noun the Turkic language spoken by these people
Etymologies
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Another source of Turkic terms in Hungarian are words such as the dog names "puli" and "komondor" and a few local dialect terms that derive from the Cuman language, which was spoken east of Budapest in the "Kun" regions until the mid 1700s.
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The Mongols (Tatars), under Subutai, invaded southern Russia from the Transcaucasus region and completely defeated a coalition of Russian princes and Cuman leaders.
1147 2001
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And pottery of poor Cuman clay, with love, seem fair and fine?
The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse 54 BC-19 BC Tibullus
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But the Cuman cohorts, opposing stratagem to force, moved off a little to one side, and when the enemy were carried beyond them in great disorder, they faced about and charged them in the rear.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius
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At his Cuman villa, he next began a Treatise on Politics, or on the best State of a City, and the Duties of a Citizen.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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You ask me what I have done about the books which I begun to write when in my Cuman villa: I have not been idle and am not being idle now; but I have frequently changed the whole plan and arrangement of the work.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero
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At his Cuman villa, he next began a Treatise on Politics, or on the best State of a City, and the Duties of a Citizen.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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The Cuman cohorts made a strategical flank movement, and when the enemy had pressed forward in disordered pursuit, they wheeled round and attacked them in the rear.
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The scene then shifts from the Cuman villa to the library of young
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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Cuma was properly Cuman; so Baiæ was Baian; and Alba near mount
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. Jacob Bryant 1759
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