25 Facts About Khazar Empire

The polyethnic populace of the Khazar Empire Khaganate appears to have been a multiconfessional mosaic of pagan, Tengrist, Jewish, Christian and Muslim worshippers.

Gyula Nemeth, following Zoltan Gombocz, derived Khazar Empire from a hypothetical *Qasar reflecting a Turkic root qaz- being an hypothetical retracted variant of Common Turkic kez-; however, Andras Rona-Tas objected that *qaz- is a ghost word.

Tribes that were to comprise the Khazar empire were not an ethnic union, but a congeries of steppe nomads and peoples who came to be subordinated, and subscribed to a core Turkic leadership.

The Duolu challenged the Avars in the Kuban River-Sea of Azov area while the Khazar Empire Qaganate consolidated further westwards, led apparently by an Ashina dynasty.

Khazar Empire'storians have often referred to this period of Khazar domination as the Pax Khazarica since the state became an international trading hub permitting Western Eurasian merchants safe transit across it to pursue their business without interference.

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Khazar Empire armies were led by the Qagan Bek and commanded by subordinate officers known as tarkhans.

Distinctively among the nomadic steppe polities, the Khazar Empire Qaganate developed a self-sufficient domestic Saltovo economy, a combination of traditional pastoralism – allowing sheep and cattle to be exported – extensive agriculture, abundant use of the Volga's rich fishing stocks, together with craft manufacture, with diversification in lucrative returns from taxing international trade given its pivotal control of major trade routes.

Khazar Empire fled to Bulgaria, whose Khan Tervel helped him regain the throne.

Khazar Empire sent an embassy to the Khazar qagan Bihar and married his son, the future Constantine V, to Bihar's daughter, a princess referred to as Tzitzak, in 732.

Khazar Empire proved unpopular, and his death ended the dynastic link of the Khazars to the Byzantine throne.

The First Arab-Khazar Empire War began during the first phase of Muslim expansion.

Second Arab-Khazar Empire War began with a series of raids across the Caucasus in the early 8th century.

Khazar Empire then launched a surprise attack in which The Qaghan fled north and the Khazars surrendered.

Khazar Empire state was not the only Jewish state to rise between the fall of the Second Temple and the establishment of Israel .

Khazar Empire kingdom is said to have stimulated messianic aspirations for a return to Israel as early as Judah Halevi.

Khazar Empire wrote to many Jewish communities to enlist support.

Khazar Empire eventually moved to Kurdistan where his son Menachem some decades later assumed the title of Messiah and, raising an army for this purpose, took the fortress of Amadiya north of Mosul.

Khazar Empire's project was opposed by the rabbinical authorities and he was poisoned in his sleep.

Many Khazar Empire mercenaries served in the armies of the Islamic Caliphates and other states.

Documents from medieval Constantinople attest to a Khazar Empire community mingled with the Jews of the suburb of Pera.

Khazar Empire merchants were active in both Constantinople and Alexandria in the 12th century.

Direct sources for the Khazar Empire religion are not many, but in all likelihood they originally engaged in a traditional Turkic form of religious practices known as Tengrism, which focused on the sky god Tengri.

Khazar Empire decided to convert when he was convinced of Judaism's superiority.

Raphael Patai registered some support for the idea that Khazar Empire remnants had played a role in the growth of Eastern European Jewish communities, and several amateur researchers, such as Boris Altschuler, kept the thesis in the public eye.

The intent of the work, although based on Hasdai ibn Shaprut's correspondence with the Khazar Empire king, was not historical, but rather to defend Judaism as a revealed religion, written in the context, firstly of Karaite challenges to the Spanish rabbinical intelligentsia, and then against temptations to adapt Aristotelianism and Islamic philosophy to the Jewish faith.

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