### The Pechenegs
Nomadic people who spoke a Turkic language. There were many Pecheneg-Hungarian wars during the 9th century, one of which occured immediately before the Hungarian Conquest. In the 10-11th centuries the Pechenegs ruled Etelköz, the territory that used to be the home of the Hungarians, and they launched military campaigns against the Byzantine empire, Old Russia and the Hungarian Kingdom. There is a more detailed description about them. From the middle of the 10th century in a work entitled "How to Govern the Empire?" by Byzantine emperor, Constantine VII. During the 10-12th centuries certain Pecheneg groups settled down in Hungary, the others merged with other peoples. ZSA