Get to know Khazaria better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning.
Khazaria meaning
A polity, established in medieval Eurasia by Khazars, that occupied much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus, parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.
Using Khazaria
- The main meaning on this page is: A polity, established in medieval Eurasia by Khazars, that occupied much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus, parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.
Context around Khazaria
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Khazaria
- In this selection, "khazaria" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, assist, undermining, eastern and nonetheless stand out and add context to how "khazaria" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include both undermining khazaria ìs tributary and but rather khazaria an empire. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "khazaria" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with khazaria
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Byzantine sources refer to Hungary as Western Tourkia in contrast to Khazaria, Eastern Tourkia. (14 words)
On Khazaria's southern flank, both Islam and Byzantine Christianity were proselytising great powers. (14 words)
Khazaria nonetheless left its mark on the rising states and some of their traditions and institutions. (16 words)
Abbas also cited a theory that Ashkenazi Jews do not hail from what is modern-day Israel, but rather Khazaria, an empire that was located between Eastern Europe and the Middle East hundreds of years ago. (36 words)
Byzantium, threatened by Varangian Rus' raiders, would assist Khazaria, and Khazaria at times allowed the northerners to pass through their territory in exchange for a portion of the booty. (29 words)
The city served as the capital of Khazaria from the 720s to about 750, when the capital was moved northwards to Atil, which was less vulnerable to Arab attacks. (29 words)
Example sentences (9)
Byzantium, threatened by Varangian Rus' raiders, would assist Khazaria, and Khazaria at times allowed the northerners to pass through their territory in exchange for a portion of the booty.
Abbas also cited a theory that Ashkenazi Jews do not hail from what is modern-day Israel, but rather Khazaria, an empire that was located between Eastern Europe and the Middle East hundreds of years ago.
Byzantine sources refer to Hungary as Western Tourkia in contrast to Khazaria, Eastern Tourkia.
Ibn Fadlan reports that the settlement of disputes in Khazaria was adjudicated by judges hailing each from his community, be it Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or Pagan.
Khazaria nonetheless left its mark on the rising states and some of their traditions and institutions.
On Khazaria's southern flank, both Islam and Byzantine Christianity were proselytising great powers.
The city served as the capital of Khazaria from the 720s to about 750, when the capital was moved northwards to Atil, which was less vulnerable to Arab attacks.
The pax Khazarica was caught in a pincer movement between steppe Pechenegs and the strengthing of an emergent Rus' power to the north, both undermining Khazaria'ìs tributary empire.
This is thought to have been the Alano-As and Oğuric Turkic tribes, who were numerically superior within Khazaria.