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The PECHENEGS had local tribes or septs that were comprised of a semi-nomadic peoples of Turkic stock emerging out of Central Asia from the 7th century CE which included the TOLMACH Clan with the Kortans around 900 CE. The Pechenegs gained control of a large amount of the land between the Don and the lower Danube by the 10th century. They were slowly driven southward by the Russians and by 1092, were almost wiped out by the combined Byzantine-Cuman army and by 1200 was almost completely gone.
The Kortan dance came from Hungary in the middle 1850's and was brought to the U.S and redesigned to a ballroom or Quadrille version by Allen Dodsworth around 1857, it was also known as the Vienna Court Quadrille. |
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There is not much in the way of written material for ancient Hungarian dances before the seventeenth Century with most dances being described as just a 'Hungarian Dance was performed' and very little description if none given. The old Hungarian dances were religious in origin and mainly Ancestor worship with their priests being called Táltosok and the Dance dance of Death (funeral dance) was widely done.
The Hungarians like dancing so much over time they kept musicians, pipers, at their courts, who provided the music for their dances and feasts. The Dances of Court and some others were introduced to the Hungarians from the French, English, Spanish, German and Italians which combined with the Magyar songs and dance music to create many Hungarian dances known today during the 1700s.
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