@article {Chernienko:18 July 2005:0001-6446:171,
	author = "Chernienko, Denis",
	title = "The Rulers of European Nomads and Early Mediaeval Byzantine Historiography",
	journal = "Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae",
	volume = "58",
	year = "18 July 2005",
	abstract = "The dynamics of socio-political evolution of nomadic societies depends on many internal and external factors, leadership being a special one amongst them. There was interrelation between the power of nomadic empires and their significant rulers. The investigation of ethno-symbolic content of leadership makes possible to present rulers of nomadic<B> </B>empires in three aspects: (a) as military and political rulers, or heads of &#147;states'; (b) as representatives of collective ethnical images; (c) as multifunctional cultural symbols.",
	pages = "171-178(8)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/akiado/aoash/2005/00000058/00000002/art00004"
}