general index 501
Băldălui, river 319
Bălfli, Highlands 298
Bălfli, Plain 204
Bălfli, region (uezd) 288
Băneasa 297, 349
Bărăgan 1, 39, 47, 50, 96, 107, 117,
198, 261, 308, 310, 329, 344, 348
Băsărabă 324
Băsăti 320
Bătrâneti 313
Bâc, river 231, 296, 321
Bârlad, city vii, viii, ix, 5, 17, 135,
284, 294, 312, 320, 349, 436, 466,
470, 474
Bârlad, region 296
Bârlad, river 17, 288, 297, 309, 313,
319, 321
Bârlad-“Prodana” vii, 190, 215, 449
Bârlăleti 5, 67, 190, 196, 214, 228,
231, 444, 445, 443, 444
Bârsa Land (‡Tara Bârsei) 146, 147,
154
Bâtca Doamnei (-Piatra Neamfl) 142
Beauplan. See Levasseur de Beauplan
Becska 331
Begovars, Cuman ruler 156
Beigoba 337
Bela III 73, 75, 79
Bela IV 154–157, 168, 205
Belaia Vezha. See Sarkel-Belaia Vezha
Belaj 333
Belceti 320
Belgorod, Belagrad, Belegrad
(Bilhorod-Dnistrovs’kyi, Cetatea Albă)
42, 53
Belgrade 119
Belolesie x, 284, 297, 488
Bender (Tighina), city 27. See also
Tighina
Bender, region (uezd) 288
Benjamin of Tudela, traveller and
author 122
Berendeai 327
Berendeasa 316
Berendei, person name 325, 327
Berendei, tribe 126, 160, 188, 211,
293, 308, 311, 316, 341
Berendel 329
Berendeti 316
Berendey, Stephan’s the Great rival
325
Berendi, Uzes ruler 338
Berendi 315
Bereti viii, 284, 293, 297, 313, 466
Berezan, Isle 53
Berheci 320
Berindeasca 316
Berindeeti 312, 322, 323
Berindei, Turkish tribe 316, 323–327,
329, 330, 340, 341
Berindeiasca 316
Berindeni 307
Berindeti 312, 322, 323
Berindieti 312, 316
Berlin 5
Berladniks, tribe 131, 137, 188
Bersaba 337
Bessarabia (Basarabia) 18, 19, 42, 53,
57, 61, 87, 192, 196, 288, 321
Bessi 118. See also Bisseni and
Pechenegs
Béthume, François Gaston de, French
traveller 199
Bicaz, river 25
Bicaz, village 25
Biharea, fortress 118
Bihor, region 121
Bilhorod-Dnistrovs’kyi, district 68, 285,
286
Bilik 324
Birdzhandi, author 183
Bisseni (Pechenegs) 145
Bistrifla, river 24, 142, 315
Bistrifla, monastery 326
Black Caps (Chornye klobuki), Turkish
tribe 140, 161, 211, 260, 296, 308
Black Cumania 260
Black Cumans 106, 107
Black Sea 2, 15, 16, 21, 29, 31, 37,
38, 40, 42, 46, 48, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56,
58, 62, 64, 70, 72, 83, 89, 90, 93, 96,
104, 106, 114, 117, 118, 122, 124,
125, 132, 138, 159, 166, 168, 170,
174, 186, 198, 207, 231, 243–245,
260, 261, 264, 295, 297, 298, 302,
347, 351, 352
Blacs. See Vlachs
Blaghâ (Wallachians?) 83
Blakumen 54, 105–107, 111. See also
Blökumenn
Blökumenn 105–107, 255, 355
Blökumennaland 105
Bodeti 313
Bodrog, river 64
Bodrogköz, place name 64
Boga, Pecheneg name 184
Bogas, John, general 91
Bogatoe vii, 191, 447