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Khazars

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Khazars , ancient Turkic people who appeared in Transcaucasia in the 2d cent. AD and subsequently settled in the lower Volga region. They emerged as a force in the 7th cent. and rose to great power. The Khazar empire extended (8th-10th cent.) from the northern shores of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea to the Urals and as far westward as Kiev. Itil, the Khazar capital in the Volga delta, was a great commercial center. The Khazars conquered the Volga Bulgars and the Crimea, levied tribute from the eastern Slavs, and warred with the Arabs, Persians, and Armenians. Religious tolerance was complete... Read more
Khazars
Khazars. National group, originally of S. Russia, who professed Judaism. The Khazars were an independent nation of E. Europe between the 7th...Roman Catholics were forbidden to marry people described as Khazars. See also JUDAH HALEVI , who took the story of the conversion... Read more
Khazars
Khazars Turkic people who first appeared in the lower Volga region in c. 2nd century ad . Between the 8th and 10th centuries, their empire... Read more

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