Information About Cumania “Dasht-i Qipchaq” and Saraičïk, in the works of the Ottoman Source

Abstract

As per the directives of Nur Sultan Nazarbayev, the founder President of Kazakhstan, in his paper ‘The Seven Features of the Steppe,’ the Archive 2025 project was initiated, in order to gather the sources regarding Kazakhstan and Kazakh history, from the archives and lybraries around the world.In this work, within the frame of Archive 2025 project, we detected information about the Cuma- nia “Dest-I Kıpchak”, and Saraičïk region from the Ottoman era archives, and the related parts were transcribed and explained from Ottoman Turkish to Kazakh. During the study, two travelogues and two chronicles, a sum of 4 manuscripts have been used. These works are the travelogue “Mirāt’ul Mamālik” by Seydi Ali Reis, who served as the Kapudan Pasha of the State during Suleiman the Magnificent era; the travelogue “Turkestan and Far East” by Defter Seyfi Çelebi, who assumed the Defterdar, i. e. Ministry of Finance during Murad III’s era, and Tavāriḫ-i Dešt-i Qïpčaq by Ibn Ridhvān, who was a governor of Feodosia during the Ottoman time, and Umdat al-(Aḫbār)-Tavāriḫ by Abdulghaffari.

Key words: Dasht-i Qipchaq, Saraičïk, Chronic, Travelogue, Mirāt’ul Mamālik, Tavāriḫ-i Dešt-i Qïpčaq, Umdat al-(Aḫbār).