1 day ago - The late 19th century saw the emergence of the theory that the core of today's Ashkenazi Jews are descended from a hypothetical Khazarian Jewish diaspora which migrated westward from modern-day Russia and Ukraine into modern-day France and Germany. Linguistic and genetic studies have not supported ...

2 days ago - The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people. They formed an empire called Khazaria in Russia from the 6th to 10th century CE. They came from the Western Turkic Khaganate of the Eurasian steppe, after it was conquered by Tang China. Khazaria was an international trading center.

January 19, 2024 - In the late 19th century, Ernest Renan and other scholars speculated that the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe originated among refugees who had migrated from the collapsed Khazarian Khanate westward into Europe. Though intermittently evoked by several scholars since that time, the Khazar-Ashkenazi ...

May 23, 2024 - 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 likely were originally located in the northern Caucasus region and were part of the western ...

April 13, 2023 - The Khazars were a semi-nomadic people who created an empire between the late 7th and 10th centuries.

Nicholas Soteri reflects on the often-overlooked Jewish kingdom of Khazaria, and the vital role they played in balancing Christian and Muslim power in the early medieval period · To continue reading this article you will need to purchase access to the online archive

December 25, 2023 - The following is a list of Khazar rulers. The Khagans were supreme chiefs of the people, holding positions of much influence and spiritual authority, but with little day-to-day command. The Khagan Beks were war chiefs, military commanders who exercised considerable day-to-day authority, and ...

May 10, 2022 - This Dispatch explores how the antisemitic “Khazarian Mafia” conspiracy theory is being directed at the war in Ukraine.

2 weeks ago - Khazaria led by Bulan[1] is a custom civilization by JFD and Janboruta[2], with contributions from danrell, David Christensen, and Andreas Waldeloft. This mod requires Brave New World. The Khazars were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, ...

November 28, 2023 - The Khazar myth (officially the Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry) holds that Ashkenazi Jews (i.e., those descended from an Eastern European bloodline) are not ethnically Jewish at all, but descend from the inhabitants of the medieval Turkic Khazar Empire.

May 24, 2024 - The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who formed a powerful khaganate in Eastern Europe from 650 to 969 AD. The Khazars originated in the Caucasus and came to build a large empire between the Dnieper River in the west and the Aral Sea in the east, adopting Judaism in the mid-8th century AD.

May 4, 2024 - Khazar, also known as Khazaric, was a Turkic dialect group spoken by the Khazars, a group of semi-nomadic Turkic peoples originating from Central Asia. There are few written records of the language and its features and characteristics are unknown. It is believed to have gradually become extinct ...

The origin is unknown. Attested as Arabic خَزَر (ḵazar), Byzantine Greek Χάζαροι (Kházaroi), Hebrew כּוּזָרִים (Kuzarim), Middle Chinese 突厥曷薩 (*tʰuət̚-kɨut̚ ɦɑt̚-sɑt̚) and Middle Chinese 突厥可薩部 (*tʰuət̚-kɨut̚ kʰɑX-sɑt̚ buoX), Latin ...

October 29, 2023 - Khazar or Khezer (Persian: خزر), in Iran, may refer to:

May 9, 2024 - Bulan was a Khazar king who led the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism. His name means "elk" or "hart" in Old Turkic. The date of his reign is unknown, as the date of the conversion is hotly disputed, though it is certain that Bulan reigned some time between the mid-8th and the mid-9th centuries.

May 23, 2024 - The Thirteenth Tribe is a 1976 book by Arthur Koestler advocating the Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry, the thesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people. Koestler hypothesized that the Khazars (who converted ...

April 26, 2024 - Wikisource has original text related to this article: ... The Khazar Correspondence is a set of documents, which are alleged to date from the 950s or 960s, and to be letters between Hasdai ibn Shaprut, foreign secretary to the Caliph of Cordoba, and Joseph Khagan of the Khazars.

3 days ago - Leo IV the Khazar (Greek: Λέων ὁ Χάζαρος, Leōn IV ho Khazaros; 25 January 750 – 8 September 780) was Byzantine emperor from 775 to 780 AD. He was born to Emperor Constantine V and Empress Tzitzak in 750. He was elevated to co-emperor in the next year, in 751, and married to ...

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