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TWO WAVES OF NOMADIC MIGRATION IN THE PONTOS IN THE THIRTEENTH-FOURTEENTH CENTURIES
In the 1240s-1260s, most of the Turkmens, who had been ousted from Central Asia by the Mongol invasion, rather rapidly (during one generation) crossed Anatolia from the east to the west and stopped in the Byzantine-Saljuq borderland. Some of them started the…