“Khan of Mankop,” A Rival of “Pan Olgerd”: On the Time when the Toponym Mangup Appeared
Journal: Античная древность и средние века
Year: 2025

This article discusses the chronology of the appearance of the toponym Mangup and its variants in written sources. Mangup (Mankop, Mankup) is the name of the town of Theodoro in Turkish, Russian and Moldavian sources from the 1470s on. By all appearance, this late Tatar name came through the Crimean Khanate to the Moscow State and Moldavia. The given research analyses the accounts on the khan (prince) of “Mankop” who was defeated, with two other khans, on the Don by the Lithuanians ca 1396. The