Kipchaks
Kipchaks (also Kypchaks, Qipchaqs) are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in the historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC. Their language was also known as Kipchak. The western Kipchaks are also known as Cumans, Kumans, Kun, Polovtsi and Polovtsians.
History
They migrated from western Mongolia towards eastern Europe. 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 Dasht-e Kipchak (the Kumans' plains) and into Pannonia. The Golden Horde was named the Kipchak Khanate.Members of the Bahri dynasty, the first dynasty of Mamelukes in Egypt, were Kipchaks, one the most prominent examples being Sultan Baybars, born in Solhat, Crimea.
Modern Times
The modern Northwestern Turkic languages are named after the Kipchaks. Some of the descendants of the Kipchaks are now known as Siberian Tatars, Nogays, Kazakhs, Tatars (partly), Crimean Tatars, Karachays (partly), Krymchaks, Karaims (partly), Kumyks (partly).Kipchak is the name of a Kazakh tribe within modern-day Kazakhstan.
Kipchak is also the name of a village in the Crimean Peninsula.