Korkut Ata Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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The Madjar town was founded, in accordance with the nature of Turkish cities, on the southern border of the Golden Horde on the crossing route along the banks of the Kuma River, one of the most important rivers of the Desht-i Kipchak region. The town, which was home to both Muslim and Christian populations, has thrived in agriculture and trade thanks to its strategically chosen location. However, the ruins of the town fell victim to looting as a result of Tsarist Russia’s settlement policy in the region. Despite this, scientists in the area have meticulously documented the discoveries associated with the town, providing detailed accounts of their findings. This gives us a framework for the size of the town, its location, and socio-economic life. Contemporary history sources provide little information about the town Madjar, and detailed information does not exist in the sources of the period. Scientists of the modern times made use of epigraphy and numismatics, which are auxiliary sciences of history, to gather information about the history of the town and to enlighten the subject. In this context, tombstones and coins have served as historical documents. The fact that the inscriptions in those relics, which belong to the 7th and 9th centuries of the Islamic Calendar, were written both in Arabic and Uyghur alphabets, and the language was Mongolian shows that the town was a Golden Horde settlement.