Meaning of Khazaria | Babel Free

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A polity, established in medieval Eurasia by Khazars, that occupied much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus, parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.

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“2007, Vladimir Ja. Petrukhin, Khazaria and Rus': An Examination of Their Historical Relations, Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai, András Róna-Tas (editors), The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives, Brill Publishers, page 245, An impartial evaluation of the relations between Khazaria and Rus' (or Eastern Slavs) within the limits imposed by official Soviet historiography was rather uncommon: the role of Khazaria was mainly pictured as an obstacle in the highly progressive processes of the development of the Russian state.”

“Jews continued to migrate to Khazaria from the Muslim and Byzantine lands circa 943 because they were still being forcefully converted to Christianity by Romanus, according to al-Masudi.”

“In 860, Byzantine Emperor Michael III Amorian and the Ecumenical Patriarch and Constantinopolitan Bishop Photios I who was Cyril's teacher dispatched the brothers on a missionary expedition to Khazaria, the Turkic Khazar Khaganate north of Persia to prevent the expansion of Judaism there.”

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