THE POLOVTSIANS OF EASTERN EUROPE (ACCORDING TO WRITTEN SOURCES)
The article is devoted to the Polovtsian period in Eastern Europe. In the first half of the XI century. The Polovtsi seize the steppes in the basin of the Seversky Donets, the Lower Don and in the Northeast Azov Sea. By the middle of theXI century. They spread their influence over the entire territory of the South Russian steppes, as reported by the Russian chronicles. In the seventies the eleventh century. Part of the western Polovtsian association settled on the Southern Bug, from where it raided Russia, Byzantium, Hungary, Poland. Before the arrival of the Mongols in Europe, the Polovtsians reigned supreme in the South Russian steppes.