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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

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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

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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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	Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel. ; There really were Khazars, of Turkish stock, between the Caucasus...court and the military caste of these Khazars converted inexplicably to Judaism. Two...now, most of my romantic notions about Khazars had been borrowed from Arthur Koestler... Read more
	Conversations with the Khazars ; ...is best known for his philosophical conversation-treatise Kuzari, an alleged record of conversations between the king of the Khazars, in the Crimea, and the friend who tries to convince him of the superiority of the Jewish religious approach. Halevi pretended... Read more
	More on the Khazars ; 00-00-0000 Headline: More on the Khazars Byline: Elliot Jager Edition; Daily Section...Jewish-related topic; includes a long entry on the Khazars, as well as a useful bibliography. There...dialogue, purportedly between the king of the Khazars and representatives of Islam, Christianity... Read more
	Lost city unearthed near Caspian? ; ...says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism...once Itil, the Khazar capital. By law Khazars could use flamed bricks only in the capital...they've truly found the long-lost city, The Khazars were a Turkic tribe that roamed the steppes... Read more
	Dig claims to uncover long-lost city that looms large in Russia's history.(N) ; ...says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism...once Itil, the Khazar capital. By law, Khazars could use flamed bricks only in the capital...they've truly found the long-lost city. The Khazars were a Turkic tribe that roamed the steppes... Read more
	The Secrets Of the Alphabet ; DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words By Milorad...magical realist fashion, Dictionary of the Khazars appears not as a book but as the reconstruction...sages so impressed the khagan that the Khazars converted to his religion. But since... Read more
	A kingdom apart ; ...Friday, January 23, 2004 -- The Wind of the Khazars By Marek Halter. Translated from the French...written a powerful novel centering on the Khazars, the warrior tribe that converted to Judaism...Marc Sofer becomes fascinated with the Khazars and travels to Azerbaijan and Georgia... Read more
	TV fit for a king ; ...Ehud Ya'ari's search for the kings of the Khazars on ITV. Ya'ari - who was told as a boy...have gone to eliminate any trace of the Khazars, as when Ya'ari was told point blank by...curator that no artifacts relating to the Khazars could be found in a certain Russian city... Read more
	AN EXOTIC, DREAMLIKE 'LEXICON' ; DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS, a lexicon novel in a "male" and a "female...each). $19.95 (each). Don't let the Khazars into your dreams. Members of a sect of...the historical record of the nomadic Khazars who, in fact, established a powerful... Read more
	Chabon's Latest Is Literary, Linguistic Adventure ; ...a thousand years ago in the kingdom of the Khazars between the Black and Caspian Seas. The Khazars were Turkic people who embraced Judaism, and...well-known book, the Arthur Kessler book about the Khazars, which, unfortunately, has been since largely... Read more

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