The Cuman Royal House

of Romania, Moldova and Gagauz Eri

 

Family tree from 892 to this day:

 

0l.       Murad Kara (892-905)

Murad Kara, the first Ilhan King, established his headquarters on the right bank of Dniester River and named the locality KUMANA, which still exists today in Moldova.

02.      Mehmed Kara (905-916)

03.      Sokosul Kara (916-924)

04.      Terter Kara (925-930)

05.      Kuthen Kara I (931-940)

06.      Kaliman Kara (941-971)

07.      Oituz Madjarî Kara (972-980)

08.      Rogut Kara (981-1000)

09.      Sokal I Kara (1001-1014)

10.      Sokal II Kara (l0l5-1022)

11.       Kuman Tseglu Kara (1023-1039)

12.      Kuman Seglu II Kara (1040-1059)

13.      Mehmed Murad Kara (1060-1061)

14.      Sokal Kara III (1061-1069)

l5.       Osul Kara Murad (1070-1083)

16.      Kuthen Kara (1084-1087)

17.      Krul Kara (1088-1089)

18.      Kapolkzi Krul Kara (1090-1091)

19.      Kuran Kara (l091-1093)

20.      Tugor Han Kara (1094)

21.      Kitan Kara Opu (1094-1095)

22.      Itlar Kara (1095-1096)

23.      Altunar Murad Kara (1096-1097)

24.      Wedus Batu Kara (1098-1102)

25.      Eni Han Kuman Kara (1103-1106)

26.      Aepa Kuman Kara (1107-1116)

27.      Iassî Kara (1116-1124)

28.      Terter II Kara (1125-1147)

29.      Lazarî Kara (1148-1160)

30.      Nicetas Oituz Kara (1161-1166)

31.      Kontschak Kara (1185-1203)

32.      Somogur Kara (1204)

33.      Soronius Kara (1205-1220)

34.      Bark Kara (1221-1248)

This Ilhan King passed the Kingdom to Roman Catholic Faith and in 1224 Christianized 15000 soldiers and cavalry noblemen and initiated the Cuman Catholic Diocese on the River Milkov, near today’s locality of Draguşani. By introducing the Catholic Christian faith in Great Cumania he obliged the use of Latin language as an official State communication tool. By those exceptional measures HE PROVED TO BE THE FIRST KING OF EASTERN EUROPE who promoted By FACTS the tendency to integrate His country to WESTERN CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION. It is and will be our obligation to pay tribute to this great Ilhan. The Romanians, ignoring their own Scythian origin and the great history Facts of our ancestors are diminishing their own chances to prove that our nation was in fact the first pro-westerner political power of Eastern Europe. This rupture put the Romanian People in the posture of a natural barrier against Ottoman Empire. Ştefan the Great, King of Moldova, himself a member of the great Kara-Muşat Royal family, continued courageously the fight of Bark Kara for freedom and independence!

35.     Kuthen Kara (1231-1239).

Kuthen Kara was the Governor of Ardeal Territories.  He had his headquarters in the locality of Kuheia and was killed by the men of the Hungarian King Bella IV who was suspecting that Kuthen Kara was in relation with Genghis Han. The Moldovian Prince Bogdan I was a direct descendant of Kuthen Kara.

36.      Karaz Han Kara (1248-1258)

37.      Basti Bark Kara, brother of Bark Kara (1258-1265)

Basti Bark Kara was the Han of today’s territory of Muntenia.

38.      Kotak Madjari Kara, Bark Kara’s brother in law (1265-1268).

39.      Aepa II Han, son of Bark Kara. (1268-1272)

40.      Aslan Kara I, the second brother of Bark Kara. (1272--1275)

Aslan Kara I was in charge of today’s territory of Moldova and Basarabia.

41.      Kaplan Kara (the tiger) (1276-1295)

Kaplan Kara was the youngest brother of Bark Kara.  He was The Ilhan of Great Cumania from the Dniester River up to the Hungarian Kingdom.   After the split of Great Cumania in three independent entities, Ardeal, Moldova and Muntenia, Kaplan passed the river Danube and took the leadership of the Gagauz People who lived in Dobrudgea (Southeastern Romania) and the Varna (Bulgaria) region.   His first degree cousin, Radu Kara-Negru Vodă, remained in what is today’s Romania and created the basis of the Muntenia-Oltenia Principalities.

42.       Mehmet Andrei Han Kara (1295-1343)

Mehmet Andrei Han Kara son of Kaplan Kara, was the Han of the Gagauz Principality of Varna.

43.       Aslan Karaghiaur (1343-1388)

Aslan Karaghiaur, son of Mehmet Andrei, was named GHIAUR by the great conqueror Bayazed who killed him in a combat near Varna. Bayazed was killed himself by the Great Han Tamerlan the Uzbek, who passed from Christian faith to the Mohamedan religion. He was the seventh in line Han after Genghis Han. After 1388 the Gagauz Varna Hanat was declared PASHALIK. The Karaghiaur family retreated to the west and put the basis of the today’s town of KUMANOVO.   In Bugeac the fallowing Cuman Hans were in charge of Bugeac Territory at the Head of the Gagauz population:

44.      Gheorghe Karaghiaur (1729-1758)

45.      Nicolas Karaghiaur (1759-1790)

46.      Demetrius Karaghiaur (1791-1828)

47.      Kiril Karaghiaur (1829-1848)

48.      Ilieaş Karaghiaur (1849-1879)

49.      Tudor Karaghiaur (1880-1924)

50.      The Professor Ştefan Caraghiaur (1924-1978)

The family was deported in Russia near the town of Morozovsk. In 1942, under the guidance of Eni Han, the family returned in Basarabia.

Ştefan Caraghiaur has built MANY SCHOOLS FOR THE MOLDAVIAN and Gagauz population in Ceadîr-Lunga, Komrat, Cărpineni and Căuşani. He collected money from His friends and put His own resources at work in order to help His fellow citizens. He died in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), in 1978 where He was admitted as a political refugee from the communist regime of Romania in 1972.

51   Eugen Eni Han Caraghiaur (1978- )

He is the current Ilhan of The Royal House of Panciu –Romania, Moldova, Gagauz Eri and the territories occupied by Ukraina.

THE HISTORY OF THE CUMAN HANAL-ROYAL

HOUSE OF PANCIU

(Romania, Moldova, Gagauz Eri and Territories occupied by Ukraina)