2 definitions by Connie Linghers
Turkic ethnicity descended from various Oghuz (Uz, Berendei, Pecheneg) and Kipchak (Cuman) tribes. Cumans, in particular, are known to come to the Ukrainian steppe from Taklamakan desert in the Tarim basin of what is now a part of China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Not to be confused with Hutsuls (who are ethnically Romanian), Lemkos (who are ethnically Polish) and Boikos (who are ethnically Slovak) of western Ukraine and ethnic Belarusians (Pinchuks and Poleshuks) in the northern part of the country.
Ukrainians used to have a state called Desht-i Qipchak also known as Cuman-Kipchak confederation stretching from the present-day Kazakhstan, southern Russia, Ukraine, to southern Moldavia and eastern Wallachia.
by Connie Linghers November 21, 2018
Are a brown peoples a.k.a. Cumans ('polovtsi'), who migrated from north-western China (Taklamakan desert) into the Ukraine in the 10th century AD.
by Connie Linghers June 15, 2018