Kipchaks
a Turkish people, who in the 11th century were settled in the steppes of Southeast Russia, between the Ural and the Don, N. of the river Kuma. After the death of Genghis Khan, one of his four sons, Batu, conquered (1238-1243) nearly all Central and Southern Russia, and founded the great empire of the Golden Horde or the Kipchaks, fixing his magnificent camp on E. branch, the White Horde or Eastern the Volga. The Golden Horde and the Kipchak, were united about 1378; but this join Tamerlane in 1390-1395. Out of the this joint empire was broken up by fragments were formed the small khan ates of Astrakhan, Kazan, the Crimea, sorbed by Russia. The modern descendetc., all of which were eventually ab ants of the Western Kipchaks are the Tartars of Kazan, Astrakhan, the Crimea, etc.