Terteroba

The Terter clan or Terteroba (Rus: Ter'trobiči), was a Cuman tribe, part of the Cuman-Kipchak confederation.

Terter is derived from a tributary of the Kura River in the Southern Caucasus.

The tribe had ruled the steppe proto-state of Cumania in the late 11th century.

In the 1220s they were led by Köten, a khan of the Cuman-Kipchak confederation.

During the Mongol invasion, the surviving Cuman tribes sought refuge in the Kingdom of Hungary (1238). The Cuman tribes adopted Christianity in return for protection. According to Hungarian sources, the Cuman tribes included the Chertan, Ulasoba, Burcoba (Burcevici), Kolaba, and Köten's tribe, the Terteroba.

According to Plamen Pavlov the Terter dynasty was a branch of the Cuman noble dynasty of Terteroba who had settled in Bulgaria as part of the second wave of Cuman migration, coming from the Kingdom of Hungary after 1241.

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