Khazars in a sentence

Early sources such as the almost contemporary Armenian history, Patmutʿiwn Ałuanicʿ Ašxarhi, attributed to Movsēs Dasxurancʿ, and the Chronicle attributed to Theophanes identify these Turks as Khazars (Theophanes has: 'Turks, who are called Khazars').

The Khazars thus placed themselves at a major transit point.

Pointing to Arthur Koestler’s book “The Thirteenth Tribe,” which asserts that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazars, Abbas said European Jews therefore had “no historical ties” to the Land of Israel.

After one more conflict with these Polovtsi in 1106, the Khazars fade from history.

After this, having made Bayan a subject, they forced him to pay tribute''.sfn Asparukh, according to the Pseudo–Zacharias Rhetor, "fled from the Khazars out of the Bulgarian mountains".

Around 813, Theophanes uses - alongside the generic name Turk - 'East Turk' for the designation of the Khazars, and in context, the 'West Turks' may actually have meant the Magyars.

At the peak of their empire, the Khazars ran a centralised fiscal administration, with a standing army of some 7-12,000 men, which could, at need, be multiplied two or three times that number by inducting reserves from their nobles' retinues.

Byzantine and Khazar forces may have clashed in the Crimea, and by the 940s emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus was speculating in De Administrando Imperio about ways in which the Khazars could be isolated and attacked.

Christian 298. The Primary Chronicle is very succinct about the whole campaign against the Khazars, saying only that Sviatoslav "took their city and Belaya Vezha".

For some three centuries (c. 650–965) the Khazars dominated the vast area extending from the Volga-Don steppes to the eastern Crimea and the northern Caucasus.

From the beginning of the 10th century, the Khazars found themselves fighting on multiple fronts as nomadic incursions were exacerbated by uprisings by former clients and invasions from former allies.

He employed Oghuz and Pecheneg mercenaries in this campaign, perhaps to counter the superior cavalry of the Khazars and Bulgars.

H.N. Turteltaub 's Justinian, Marek Halter 's Book of Abraham and Wind of the Khazars, and Michael Chabon 's Gentlemen of the Road allude to or feature elements of Khazar history or create fictional Khazar characters.

In 1024 Mstislav of Chernigov (one of Vladimir's sons) marched against his brother Yaroslav with an army that included "Khazars and Kassogians" in a repulsed attempt to restore a kind of 'Khazarian'-type dominion over Kiev.

In 764, Tbilisi, still under Arab control was once again sacked by the Khazars.

It has been claimed that Methodius accompanied Cyril on the mission to the Khazars, but this is probably a later invention.

Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars.

Many Khazars, like Cossacks, as described in The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy, could be Slavic-Turkic bilinguals.

Once the Khazars emerged as a power, the Byzantines also began to form alliances with them, dynastic and military.

Pressure from the Khazars led to the disintegration of Great Bulgaria in the second half of the 7th century.