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The focus of Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi is on the political, social, economic and linguistic history of the peoples of the Eurasian steppes and adjoining regions from late antiquity to the Mongol Empire and its successor states. Among its primary concerns are questions regarding the Iranian steppe peoples, the Huns, the Oghur and Bulghar Turkic peoples, the Sabirs, the Avars, the Khazars and other peoples of the Turk Empire, the Hungarians, Pechenegs, Cumans and peoples of the Mongol Empire. The periodical will also touch on many points in the history of the Slavic world, Crimea, Byzantium, Iran, the Caucasus, the lands of Islam and the peoples of Central and Northern Europe, as well as elucidate various questions of Turkic and steppe history. From the contents: - Balint, CS.: Les tombes a ensevelissement de cheval chez les Hongrois aux IXe-Xe siecles - Golden, P.B.: Imperial Ideology and the Sources of Political Unity amongst the Pre-Cinggisid Nomads of Western Eurasia - Golden, P.B.: The Question of the Rus' Qaganate - Halperin, Ch. J.: Russia and the "Mongol Yoke": Concepts of Conquest, Liberation, and the Chingissid Idea - Martinez, A.P.: Gardizi`s Two Chapters on the Turks - Noonan, Th. S.: Did the Khazars Possess a Monetary Economy? An Analysis of the Numismatic Evidence.