Pecheneg

plural Pechenegs · alternative Pacheneg · alternative Patzinak · alternative Petcheneg · alternative Petchenek

1. historicalA member of a specific semi-nomadic Turkic people from central Asia, some of whom migrated into eastern Europe.

   One of the earliest Arab geographers who referred to the Pechenegs in south-eastern Europe was al-Iṣṭakhrī (circa 950).

   1993, Harry Thirlwall Norris, Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society Between Europe and the Arab World, University of South Carolina Press, page 26

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   The Pechenegs had already ceased to be a major threat by the time Kievan Rus’ converted to Christianity in 988, and most references to them in the chronicle are in the period before this, earlier in the tenth century.

   1987, Charles J. Halperin, Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History, Indiana University Press, page 13

   The siege of Dristra failed, as the emperor found himself surrounded by the Pechenegs.[…]Fearing a Cuman–Pecheneg alliance, Alexios immediately sued for peace and the Pechenegs agreed to a truce, which they immediately broke in order to take advantage of Alexios' notorious lack of troops and invade Thrace.

   2006, Florin Curta, Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250, Cambridge University Press, page 301

alternative Pacheneg · alternative Patzinak · alternative Petcheneg · alternative Petchenek

1. historicalThe now extinct Turkic language spoken by the Pechenegs.

   […]these loanwords are later borrowings from the Pecheneg and Comanian, respectively.

   1991, Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, Volume 7, Peter de Ridder Press, page 286

alternative Pacheneg · alternative Patzinak · alternative Petcheneg · alternative Petchenek

1. not comparableOf or relating to the Pecheneg people or their language.