Sarkel (or Šarkel, literally "white house" in the Khazar language) was a large limestone-and-brick fortress in what is now Rostov Oblast of Russia, on...

was sufficiently notable to be fortified for over two thousand years. The Sarkel fortress on the left bank of the lower Don was the main control of this...

allied principalities, attacked Sarkel, a city of the Khazars, in the 900s. The Khazar army was defeated and the Sarkel prince and his surviving army were...

the Khazar city of Sarkel around 965, possibly sacking (but not occupying) the Khazar city of Kerch on the Crimea as well. At Sarkel he established a Rus'...

Modern day "Axe of Perun" amulet based on a finding from the Khazar fortress Sarkel (Саркел), excavated in the 1930s. The Kievan Rus' controlled the fortress...

Khazar fortresses like Sarkel and Tamatarkha, and reached as far as the Caucasian Kassogians/Circassians and then back to Kiev. Sarkel fell in 965, with the...

Sea commerce. The Byzantines also helped the Khazars build a fortress at Sarkel on the Don river to protect their northwest frontier against incursions...

European sources. The casus belli was the construction of the fortress Sarkel by Byzantine engineers, restricting the Rus' trade route along the Don River...

then into the Sea of Azov, then up the Don River past the Khazar city of Sarkel, and then by a portage reached the Volga, which led them into the Caspian...

horsemen and allied principalities, attacked Sarkel, a city of the Khazars. The Khazar army was defeated and the Sarkel prince and his surviving army were shackled...

Belarusian) may refer to: Belaya Vezha, Russia– the Khazar fortress of Sarkel (White Tower) on the Don River, Russia Belaya Vezha, Belarus – the tower...

implying a connection with the Silk Road; from the Khazar fortress of Sarkel; or from serkr, shirt or gown, i.e., "land of the gown-wearers". In all...

"Саркел.ру -Варианты соединения Волги и Дона" [Sarkel.ru - Options for connecting the Volga and the Don]. sarkel.ru. Archived from the original on 7 March...

Theophilos strengthened the Walls of Constantinople, built the fortress of Sarkel on the Don river in Khazar territories, created the Cherson, Paphlagonia...

spatharokandidatos Petronas Kamateros, who in c. 839 supervised the construction of the Sarkel fortress for the Khazars and later became governor of Cherson. Several members...

Dam project. Under the waters lies the ancient Khazar fortress town of Sarkel. Along with the Volga–Don Canal, the reservoir forms part of a waterway...

spatharokandidatos and was sent by Theophilos to supervise the construction of Sarkel, a fortified city that was to serve as capital for the Khazars, who were...

Norse merchants and native population. The Khazars built the fortress of Sarkel to guard a key portage between the Volga and the Don. After Varangian and...

controversial hypothesis of Azov Rus, which was alleged to have been centered on Sarkel and Tmutarakan. Ilovaysky was the father-in-law of Ivan Tsvetaev, who founded...

to construct the new Khazar capital at Sarkel in 839, and identify Petronas Kamateros, the architect of Sarkel, as the theme's first governor (strategos)...

with his army, went to meet Svyatoslav, but Russians defeated him and took Sarkel. After Svyatoslav besieged Itil and took it, the Jews living there decided...

a 13th-century fortress in Zagreb, Croatia nicknamed "the White Tower" Sarkel, a fortress in Russia renamed in 965 A.D. to Belaya Vezha (White Tower)...

Scythian and Khazar kurgans and settlements, including the fortress of Sarkel Artemiy Artsikhovsky (1902-1978), archaeologist, discoverer of birch bark...

under Niketas Abalantes. Siege of Sarkel Kievan Rus' under Sviatoslav I captures and razes Khazar fortress of Sarkel. Siege of Rometta Fatimids defeat...

Ruthenians. There Atrak's horde joined the local Alans. In 1117 his army sacked Sarkel and 5 other cities belonging to the Torkils and Berendei forcing the local...

Bek of the Khazars asked the Emperor Teophilos to have the fortress of Sarkel built for them. This record is thought to refer to the Hungarians on the...

objects, show close affinities with finds at Novi Pazar, Bulgaria and at Sarkel, Russia. Stylistically, Central Asian, Persian-Sassanid and Byzantine influences...

Tarxan, Tudun, Yabgu, Yilig/Yelig), anthroponyms (Itaq), and toponyms (Sarkel/Šarkil, Sarığšın/Sarığčın), mostly of Turkic origin. The interpretations...

11th centuries AD, with the Don Portage controlled by the Khazar fortress Sarkel. Volgodonskaya Perevoloka on the map (1562). Volgodonskaya Perevoloka on...

Age) Tmutarakan Staraya Ladoga (Viking Age) Rurikovo Gorodische Gnyozdovo Sarkel (9th century) B. Trigger, A History of Archaeological Thought, McGill University...