Back Chasare Afrikaans Chasaren ALS የኻዛር መንግሥት Amharic Gazaros AN خزر Arabic خزر ARZ Jázaros AST Хазарал AV Xəzərlər Azerbaijani خزرلر AZB
Khazar Khaganate Xəzər Xaqanlığı | |||||||||||||
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| c. 650–969 | |||||||||||||
 Khazar Khaganate, 650–850 | |||||||||||||
| Status | Khazar Khaganate | ||||||||||||
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| Common languages | Khazar | ||||||||||||
| Religion | |||||||||||||
| Khagan | |||||||||||||
• 618 – 628 | Tong Yabghu | ||||||||||||
• 9th century | Bulan | ||||||||||||
• 9th century | Obadiah | ||||||||||||
• 9th century | Zachariah | ||||||||||||
• 9th century | Manasseh I | ||||||||||||
• 9th century | Benjamin | ||||||||||||
• 10th century | Aaron | ||||||||||||
• 10th century | Joseph | ||||||||||||
• 10th century | David of Taman | ||||||||||||
• 11th century | Georgius Tzul, or Georgios | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | c. 650 | ||||||||||||
• Sack of Atil of Sviatoslav I of Kyiv | 969 | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
| 850 est.[3] | 3,000,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| 900 est.[4] | 1,000,000 km2 (390,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 7th century[5] | 1,400,000 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | Yarmaq | ||||||||||||
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The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people. They formed an empire called Khazaria in Russia from the 6th to 10th century CE.[6] They are said to have originated from the Western Turkic Khaganate of the Eurasian steppe, a vast plain encompassing Central Asia and southeastern Europe.[7]
- ↑ Wexler 1996, p. 50
- ↑ Brook, pp. 107
- ↑ Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires". Journal of World-systems Research. 12 (2): 222. ISSN 1076-156X. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ↑ Rein Taagepera (September 1997). "Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia". International Studies Quarterly. 41 (3): 496. doi:10.1111/0020-8833.00053. JSTOR 2600793.
- ↑ Herlihy 1972, pp. 136–148;Russell1972, pp. 25–71. This figure has been calculated on the basis of the data in both Herlihy and Russell's work.
- ↑ "Khazar | people". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
- ↑ Sneath 2007