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    major artery of commerce between Eastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, Khazaria became one of the foremost trading empires of the early medieval world...
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  • Atil (redirect from Atil, Khazaria)
    the Khazars in the Second Arab-Khazar War, Atil became the capital of Khazaria. Ibn Khordadbeh, writing in ca. 870, names Khamlij as the capital of the...
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  • Theodora of Khazaria (Greek: Θεοδώρα τῶν Χαζάρων) was Byzantine empress as the second wife of Justinian II. She was a sister of Busir, khagan of the Khazars...
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    Khaganate around 650; until the early 720s, Balanjar served as the capital of Khazaria. During the First Arab-Khazar War in the 650s, a Muslim army under Abd...
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    Samandar (also Semender) was a city in (and briefly capital of) Khazaria, on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, in what is now Daghestan. At some later...
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    Khazaran was a city in the Khazar kingdom, located on the eastern bank of the lower Volga River. It was connected to Atil by a pontoon bridge. Khazaran...
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  • Tzitzak (redirect from Irene of Khazaria)
    22 "Irene, wife of Constantine V" (2000) Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006. Douglas M. Dunlop...
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    20-22. ISBN 978-91-981859-3-5. Brook, Kevin Alan (2006). The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-7425-4981-X Dunlop...
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  • names refer to his conversion to Judaism. Brook, Kevin (2018). The Jews of Khazaria (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 84–85. Dunlop, Douglas...
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    used for defining two medieval states: Hungary (Western Tourkia); and Khazaria (Eastern Tourkia). With the Treaty of Alexandropol, the name Türkiye entered...
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    Kerch (redirect from Kerch, Khazaria)
    of the Apostle Andrew by Epiphanius of Salamis. Following the fall of Khazaria to Kievan Rus' in the late 10th century, Kerch became the centre of a Khazar...
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  • Jews of Khazaria (3rd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-5381-0342-5. Feldman, Alex Mesibov (2023). "Chapter 4: Khazaria: The Exception...
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  • ISBN 978-0-394-40284-0. Kevin Alan Brook (27 September 2006). The Jews of Khazaria. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 255–. ISBN 978-1-4422-0302-0. v t...
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    and the hostility of the Rus' against Khazaria. In 965, Sviatoslav I of Kiev finally went to war against Khazaria. He employed Oghuz and Pecheneg mercenaries...
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  • Aaron II, a Khazar ruler who defeated a Byzantine-inspired war against Khazaria on numerous fronts. Joseph's wife (or probably, one of many wives[citation...
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  • (667–690), Бу-Тимер (690–700), Сулоби (700–727), [...]. Boris Zhivkov, Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, East Central and Eastern Europe in the...
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    occasionally in Jewish usage, where its denotation extended at times to Adiabene, Khazaria, Crimea and areas to the east. His contemporary Saadia Gaon identified...
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    although the relationship of that family to the original ruling dynasty of Khazaria is unknown. Almost nothing else about him, including the extent of his...
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  • among its inhabitants guard its walls day and night. After the downfall of Khazaria, the Alan kings frequently allied with the Byzantines and various Georgian...
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  • The Khazz was the ethnarch of the Muslim community in Khazaria. The Khazz resided in the city of Khazaran. He may have had some authority over the division...
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  • Michael Chabon. It is a "swashbuckling adventure" set in the khaganate of Khazaria (now southwest Russia) around AD 950. It follows two Jewish bandits who...
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    advanced the claim, asserting that considerable numbers of Khazars had left Khazaria for Kievan Rus' in the time of Vladimir I (980–1015). The German Orientalist...
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    antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Cimmeria Sarmatia Dacia Taurica Scythia Khazaria Onoğurs Kazarig Avar Khaganate Old Great Bulgaria Ruthenia Principalities...
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  • Itil may mean: Atil or Itil, the ancient capital of Khazaria Itil (river), also Idel, Atil, Atal, the ancient and modern Turkic name of the river Volga...
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    from the 13th century to the 16th century, caused the coastal towns of Khazaria, such as Atil, to flood. In 2004, the water level was 28 m (92 ft) below...
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  • the Schechter Letter account, Jews from Persia and Armenia migrated to Khazaria to flee persecution, where they mingled with the nomadic Khazars, eventually...
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  • March 21 with the celebration of Ulugh Kun. Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006. Spring Festivals v...
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  • German). Orbis. ISBN 3-572-01344-5. Brook, Kevin Alan (2006). The Jews of Khazaria (2nd ed.). Rowman and Littlefield. p. 154. ISBN 0-7425-4981-X. Franklin...
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  • upon the Khazars. Nevertheless, the Caliphs could not adequately garrison Khazaria, and within a few years the Khazars were once again independent. The famous...
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    writes that Marwan came "within an ace of succeeding" in his conquest of Khazaria, and suggests that the Arab commander "apparently intended to resume operations...
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