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    when Byzantium began encouraging the Alans to attack Khazaria. This move aimed to weaken Khazaria's control over Crimea and the Caucasus, for the Empire...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    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 (redirect from Khazaran, Khazaria)
    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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    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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    wife of Constantine V" (2000)[dead link‍] Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006. Douglas M. Dunlop...
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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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    used for defining two medieval states: Hungary (Western Tourkia); and Khazaria (Eastern Tourkia). The Mamluk Sultanate, with its ruling elite of Turkic...
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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (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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  • of Jibal and Iranian Azerbaijan in retaliation for Caliphate attacks on Khazaria during the course of the decades-long Khazar-Arab War of the early 8th...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    of Khazaria. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 35–36. ISBN 9781442203020. Retrieved 30 May 2017. Brook, Kevin Alan (2018). The Jews of Khazaria. London:...
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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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    rising of the Caspian in the 10th century caused the coastal towns of Khazaria to flood, resulting in the Khazars losing approximately two-thirds of their...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • free dictionary. Itil may refer to: Atil or Itil, the ancient capital of Khazaria Itil (river) or Volga, the longest river in Europe ITIL (IT Infrastructure...
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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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    shelter in Khazaria north of the Caspian Sea, an area which was not ruled by Muslims; Abo accompanied him, and was baptized there. From Khazaria, Nerses...
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