- Khazars - Wikipedia
For most of its history, Khazaria served as a buffer state between the Byzantine Empire, the nomads of the northern steppes, and the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, having previously been Byzantium's proxy against the rival Sasanian Empire
- Who Were the Khazars? - Chabad. org
Sometime around the year 740 CE, the king and the ruling class, followed by members of the general population, decided to convert to Judaism The kingdom of Khazaria long served as a buffer between the Christian Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates
- Khazar | Origin, History, Religion, Facts | Britannica
Khazar, member of a confederation of Turkic-speaking tribes that in the late 6th century ce established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia
- The Khazars: A Forgotten Medieval Empire that Ruled the Northern . . .
At the time, when great fanatism and deep ignorance contested their dominion over Western Europe, the Khazar state was famous for its justice and tolerance People persecuted for their faiths flocked into Khazaria from everywhere
- An Introduction to the History of Khazaria
In a time when Jews were persecuted thruout Christian Europe, the kingdom of Khazaria was a beacon of hope Jews were able to flourish in Khazaria because of the tolerance of the Khazar rulers, who invited Byzantine and Persian Jewish refugees to settle in their country
- Khazars | Early European History And Religion — Facts and Details
Originating from the Caucasus they were a group of Turkic and Iranian tribes that settled primarily in the steppes of the of the lower Volga and Don basins The Khazars established their capital in Itil, near the mouth of the Volga, and founded an empire that spread to the Caspian Sea
- Khazaria: History and Mythology — Jacob Laufgraben
The Khazars were a Central Asian Turkic people who, in the 6th century, formed an empire in between and around the Black and Caspian Seas They likely practiced Tengrism originally, a shamanic and polytheistic religion indigenous with the Turks and Mongols to the Eurasian Steppe
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