KHAZARS

khäˈzärz, ancient Turkic people who appeared in Transcaucasia in the 2d cent. a.d. 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 in the Khazar empire, which reached a relatively high degree of civilization. In the 8th cent. the Khazar nobility embraced Judaism, and Cyril and Methodius made some Christian converts among them in the 9th cent. In the 10th cent. the Khazars entered into friendly relations with the Byzantine Empire, which attempted to use them in the struggle against the Arabs. The Khazar empire fell when Sviatoslav, duke of Kiev, defeated its army in 965. The Khazars (or Chazars) are believed by some to have been the ancestors of many East European Jews.

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books on: Khazars  - 374 results

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The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
Book by René Grousset, Naomi Walford; Rutgers University Press, 1970
Subjects: Asia, Central--History
...have heard also of the Avars and the Khazars. But it is improbable that he will know...176 The Khazars 179...a stiffening of Hunnic aristocracy , Khazars, Petchenegs, Cumans, and Jenghiz-Khanites...
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The Origins of Russia
Book by George Vernadsky; Clarendon Press, 1959
Subjects: Russia--History--To 1533
...Ritualistic execution of the king was also practised by the Khazars. According to the Arabic writer Ibn-Fadhlan, the term of...system of dual kingship. 1 Such was the case with the Khazars and the Magyars in eastern Europe. In the Hunnish empire...
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The Jews of Moslem Spain - Vol. 1
Book by Eliyahu Ashtor, Aaron Klein, Jenny Machlowitz Klein; Jewish Publication Society of America, 1992
Subjects: Jews--Spain--History, Spain--Ethnic Relations
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The Exiled and the Redeemed
Book by Itzhak Ben-Zvi; Jewish Publication Society, 1957
Subjects: Jews--Middle East
...VII Khwarezm and the Khazars 205...remain in historical records, such as the Khazars and the Khwarezmites. I have also included...another part of the Middle East when the Khazars, upon the collapse of their kingdom...
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Warfare in Inner Asian History: 500-1800
Book by Nicola Di Cosmo; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Asia, Central--History, Military
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journal articles on: Khazars  - 27 results

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Dictionary of the Khazars as a Khazar Jar
Journal article by Rachel Kilbourn Davis; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 18, 1998
Subjects: Dictionary of the Khazars (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Meaning (Philosophy)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Pavic, Milorad--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Postmodernism (Literature)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Slavic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dictionary of the Khazars as a Khazar Jar by Rachel Kilbourn...Jar" from his novel Dictionary of the Khazars, in which a student dream-reader receives...particular passage from Dictionary of the Khazars. "The Khazar Jar" is a parable about...
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Dictionary of the Khazars as an Epistemological Metaphor
Journal article by Andreas Leitner; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 18, 1998
Subjects: Dictionary of the Khazars (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Knowledge, Theory of--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Pavic, Milorad--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dictionary of the Khazars as an Epistemological Metaphor...monographs on Milorad Pavics Dictionary of the Khazars demonstrate a wide range of ways of approaching...one very quickly loses interest in the Khazars, their history, even their tragic fate...
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Chaos, Knowledge, and Desire: Narrative Strategies in Dictionary of the Khazars
Journal article by Tomislav Z. Longinovic; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 18, 1998
Subjects: Chaos theory--Literature, Dictionary of the Khazars (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature and science--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Narration (Rhetoric)--Technique, Pavic, Milorad--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Postmodernism (Literature)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Slavic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Narrative Strategies in Dictionary of the Khazars by Tomislav Z. Longinovic...organization of Milorad Pavics Dictionary of the Khazars. The apparent convergence of the narratives...wildly successful novel Dictionary of the Khazars, by Milorad Pavic. For Pavic, the hidden...
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Culture as Memory: On the Poetics of Milorad Pavic
Journal article by Dagmar Burkhart; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 18, 1998
Subjects: Dictionary of the Khazars (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Intertextuality--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Pavic, Milorad--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...his 1984 lexicon-novel Dictionary of the Khazars, correlated by cross-reference with the...only the whole of the Dictionary of the Khazars but on which, following Pavics poetic...Preliminary Notes" to Dictionary of the Khazars from the Gospel of St. John, "Verbum caro...
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Milorad Pavic: "He Thinks the Way We Dream"
Journal article by Radmila Jovanovic Gorup; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 18, 1998
Subjects: Pavic, Milorad--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Serbs--Literature
...critics, writing about Pavics Dictionary of the Khazars, wrote "We are all Khazars," they meant this as a paradigm for the troubled...internationally acclaimed novel Dictionary of the Khazars. When a friend of mine from Philadelphia, who had...
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Khazaria: A Forgotten Jewish Empire
Magazine article by Nicolas Soteri; History Today, Vol. 45, April 1995
Subjects: Eastern Europe--History, Jews--History, Khazars--History
...Judaism. Khazaria, or mention of the Khazars, is a non-starter to most. Yet historians...Russo-Byzantine expedition was launched against the Khazars that the Khazar empire suffered irremediable...of our evidence for the history of the Khazars comes from literary sources. Information...
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Identity Matters: State of the Balkan Stage
Magazine article by John Elsom; World and I, Vol. 19, February 2004
Subjects: Theater--Innovations, Theater--Political aspects
...Milorad Pavics novel The Dictionary of the Khazars, a postmodern account of national identity...implication, the history and identity of the Khazars. They were a warlike but mythical race...worldly indifference to the fate of the Khazars and everyone else. Pavic stressed the...
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While We're at It
Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2001
Subjects: Anscombe, Elizabeth--Conduct of life, Christians--Conduct of life
...Koesfler contended that in the ninth century in Central Asia, the Khazars, given the choice of becoming Christian and therefore clients...basin and southern Russia, Renan was already pointing at the Khazars. `These regions contain great masses of Jewish populations...
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The Hungarians: History Makes a Comeback
Magazine article by Norman Stone; The National Interest, Summer 1994
Subjects: History--Analysis, Hungary--Politics and government
...absurd argument around 1900 as to why Jews became such good Hungarians. Was there a blood connection, through the non-semitic Khazars who had once converted to Judaism, and who might be racial cousins of the Hungarians? This generated heat, the anti-semites...
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Chechnya: The Achilles Heel of Russia-Part One
Magazine article by Alec Rasizade; Contemporary Review, Vol. 286, April 2005
Subjects: Boundary disputes, Chechnya, Russia--Military aspects, Russia--Military aspects
...nowadays that their fighters are the modern abreks. The Past as Prologue to the Present Hostility Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Khazars, Huns, Mongols, Seljuks, Arabs, Persians and Ottoman Turks have throughout history partly dominated the Caucasus, adding to...
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Scholar Claims to Find Medieval Jewish Capital
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 21, 2008
Subjects: Archaeology, News agencies, The Associated Press
...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...theyve truly found the long-lost city, The Khazars were a Turkic tribe that roamed the steppes...
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Bowie's Star Man; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 19, 2006
Subjects: Bowie, David
...settled in north Africa, until they were subjugated by the Arab expansions. Other central Asian peoples, such as Finns and Khazars, followed in the Huns wake, occupying many areas. They moved into the power vacuum in the Danubian Plain, created by the fall...


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encyclopedia articles on: Khazars  - 18 results

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Khazars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KHAZARS kha zarz, ancient Turkic people who appeared in Transcaucasia...in the Volga delta, was a great commercial center. The Khazars conquered the Volga Bulgars and the Crimea, levied tribute...converts among them in the 9th cent. In the 10th cent. the Khazars entered into friendly relations with the Byzantine Empire...
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Chazars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHAZARS see Khazars . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Pechenegs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...known, but in the 8th and 9th cent. they inhabited the region between the lower Volga and the Urals. Pushed west (c.889) by the Khazars and Cumans, they drove the Magyars before them and settled in S Ukraine on the banks of the Dnieper. They long harassed Kievan...
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Cyril and Methodius, Saints
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fathers of Slavonic literature. Their history and influence are obscured by conflicting legends. After working among the Khazars , they were sent (863) from Constantinople by Patriarch Photius to Moravia . This was at the invitation of Prince Rostislav...
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Chufut-Kale
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Jewish sect of Karaites . Jewish inscriptions date back to 1203, and the region was probably the last refuge of the Crimean Khazars . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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