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Boniak
Boniak, Bonyak or Maniac, also known as Boniak the Mangy (), was "one of the most prominent Cuman chieftains" in the late and the early . He headed a powerful Cuman tribe or clan that inhabited the steppes to west of the Dnieper River. He supported the Byzantines against the Pechenegs in the Battle of Levounion in 1091. He defeated Coloman, King of Hungary in 1097 or 1099.
== Origins ==
Boniak's descent is uncertain. Svetlana Pletneva associates him with the Burch tribe, Peter B. Golden with the Ölberli tribe of the "Wild Cumans", and Omeljan Pritsak with the Qay clan. Boniak's nicknamethe Mangymay show that he was born with the caul, according to the Hungarian historian Szilvia Kovács. In Anna Komnene's ''Alexiad'', he is called Maniac.
Boniak's exact position cannot be determined, but his career shows that he must have been the head of powerful Cuman tribal federation, tribe, or clan. When pursuing Boniak, Sviatopolk II of Kiev and Vladimir Monomach "advanced to the Bug and later beyond the ,〔''Russian Primary Chronicle'' (Appendix I: ''The Testament of Vladimir Monomakh''), p. 213.〕 according to Vladimir's ''Testament'', which suggests that Boniak's people dwelled between the rivers Dnieper and Southern Bug or Dniester. His participation in military campaigns in the Balkan Peninsula also shows that his people lived near the Lower Danube.
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