Covers West-Eurasian steppe region, extending from present-day Kazakhstan through southern Russia, Ukraine and Moldavia to the Carpathian Basin. This title deals with pre-Mongol, Turkic peoples of the region and their relations with the Byzantine Empire to the south. It presents the history of the Golden Horde and its successor states.

Contents: Preface; The role of the Turkic peoples in the ethnic history of Eastern Europe; Origins and possible Cuman affiliations of the Asen dynasty; Cuman warriors in the fight of Byzantium with the Latins; The Hungarians or Mozars and the Mešcers/Mizers of the Middle Volga region; The Golden Horde term daruga and its survival in Russia; The institution of foster-brothers (emildäš and kökäldäš) in the Chingisid states; The origin of the institution of basqaqs; Susun and süsün in Middle Turkic texts; Notes on the term tartanaq in the Golden Horde; Bemerkungen zum uigurischen Schrifttum in der Goldenen Horde und bei den Timuriden; Mongolian impact on the terminology of the documents of the Golden Horde; Immunity charters of the Golden Horde granted to the Italian towns Caffa and Tana; Oriental languages of the Codex Cumanicus: Persian and Cuman as linguae francae in the Black Sea region (13th-14th centuries) A contract of the Crimean Khan Mängli Giräy and the inhabitants of Qïrq-Yer from 1478/79; Two Kazan Tatar edicts (Ibrahim's and Sahib Girey's yarliks) (with Shamil Muhamedyarov); Orthodox Christian Qumans and Tatars of the Crimea in the 13th-14th centuries; 'History and legend' in Berke Khan's conversion to Islam; Andrzej Taranowskis Bericht über seine Gesandschaftsreise in der Tartarei (1569) (with L. Tardy); Russian and Tatar genealogical sources on the origin of the Iusupov family; Clans of Tatar descent in the Muscovite elite of the 14th-16th centuries; Muscovite diplomacy with the states of the Orient; Index.