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Khazar

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Khazar

Member of a people of Turkish origin from the lower Volga basin of Central Asia, who formed a commercial link and a buffer state in the 7th-12th centuries between the Arabs and the Byzantine Empire, and later between the Byzantine Empire and the Baltic. Their ruler adopted Judaism as the state religion in the 8th century. In the 11th century, Slavonic and nomadic Turks invaded, and by the 13th century the Khazar empire had been absorbed by its neighbours. It has been suggested that the Khazars were the ancestors of some of the Jews living in Eastern European countries and now throughout the world.


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Elsewhere he talks about a type of Rus who are neighbors with countries such as Ankariyya and Maqdoniya and who conquered during his time Burtas, Bulghar and Khazar.
Al-Mas udi mentions only five Turkish tribes: Kharlukh, Ghuzz, Kimak, Tughuz-Oghuz, and Khazar.
He gave much graver offense to Cesarani by publishing, at age seventy-five, The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and its Heritage (1976).
 
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