Other names include Kangju, Kangar, Kangly, Besenyos, Beshenye, Badjanak, Beçen, Beçenek (pl), Bejen, Bejenek (pl), Bissenus, Badzinags, Budin, Budini, Budun, Pasiani, Patzinaks, Peçenek, Pechenachi, Pachenase, Pezengs, and other variations

The Pechenegs, an Oghuz tribe, whose initial settlement was around Balkhash Lake and later moved on to the nearby Aral Sea during the fight between the Gok Turks and Uighurs. Then they moved further west and fought against the Khazars. They occupied the Cuman plains and expelled the Magyars ruling the lands between the Don and Dnieper Rivers towards the West.

Giving assistance to the Russians in their fights with the Khazars, they played a role in the founding of the larger Rus state. The Pechenegs, who ruled a territory extending from the Don River to the Danube River in the 10th Century, made raids on Byzantine territories from the middle of the 11th Century.

About 950 AD, the Pecheneg tribes, three of which (Ertim, Chor and Yula) were ”Kangar”, meaning “brave”, occupied the banks of rivers running into Black Sea:

Choban (in Don area),
Tolmach (in area of Don flowing into the sea),
Kyulbey (Donets),
Chor (the east of Dnepr),
Karabai (between Dnepr and Bug)
Ertin (Dniestr),
Yula (Prut),
Kapan (lower Danube)

The Pechenegs were defeated by the Byzantines in the 12th Century and some of the separate Pecheneg groups, who could not represent a political existence after this defeat, were settled in the territories of the Byzantine Empire. Those who stayed in the Balkans and Hungary settled there and were assimilated by the Magyars and other groups.

Eurasian Nomads: Part 2

Magyars
Székely
Pechenegs
The Uighur Empire (744-840)
Xueyantuo
Kirghiz or Kyrgyz
Kipchaks
Kimeks
Tatars or Tartar
Steppe Kingdoms (840-1278)
Khitan or Kidan
Tanguts
Jurchen or Jurchid
Turks or Turkmen
Mongol World Empire (1206-1368)
Steppe Peoples' Political Decline (14th C. onward)
Descriptions of Non-Mongolian Physiques

Eurasian Nomads: Part 1

Background
Indo-European Period (4,000 BC-300 AD)
Hsiung-nu Period (250 BC-450 AD)
Turkic Kaganate (552-744)