Turks And Khazars

Author : Peter B. Golden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105217045421

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Turks and Khazars by Peter B. Golden Pdf

This second collection of studies by Peter Golden continues his explorations of the TÃ1/4rk Empire (mid-sixth to mid-eighth centuries), the stateless polities that followed its collapse, and of the Khazar Qaghanate (mid-seventh century to ca. 965-969), its imperial successor state in the western Eurasian steppes. Examined here are issues relating to the rise of the TÃ1/4rks, slavery and its role in Turkic nomadic societies, and the cultural interactions between Turkic nomads and neighbouring societies, notably Kievan Rus', Georgia and the Islamic world.

Author : Mikhail Zhirohov,David Nicolle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472830111

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The Khazars by Mikhail Zhirohov,David Nicolle Pdf

The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches of the Central Asian steppes from the 4th to the 11th centuries AD. They were also unique in that their aristocratic and military elites converted to Judaism, creating what would be territorially the largest Jewish-ruled state in world history. They became significant allies of the Byzantine Empire, blocking the advance of Islam north of the Caucasus Mountains for several hundred years. They also achieved a remarkable level of metal-working technology, and their military elite wore forms of iron plate armour that would not be seen in Western Europe until the 14th century. The Khazar state provided the foundations upon which medieval Russia and modern Ukraine were built. Fully illustrated with detailed colour plates, this is a fascinating study into the armies, organisation, armour, weapons and fortifications of the Khazars.

Author : Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:2329372-10

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The Khazars by Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth Pdf

Author : Peter B. Golden,Haggai Ben-Shammai,András Róna-Tas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004160422

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The World of the Khazars by Peter B. Golden,Haggai Ben-Shammai,András Róna-Tas Pdf

The Khazar Empire was one of the major states of medieval Eurasia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines (history, linguistics, archaeology, literary studies), the papers in this volume shed new light on many of the disputed topics in Khazar history.

Author : Henry Hoyle Howorth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1876*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:469578693

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The Khazars, Were They Ugrians Or Turks by Henry Hoyle Howorth Pdf

Author : Vladimir Feodorovitch Minorskiĭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:459576195

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The Khazars and the Turks in the Akām Al-Marjān by Vladimir Feodorovitch Minorskiĭ Pdf

Author : Peter B. Golden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060100438

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Nomads and Their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe by Peter B. Golden Pdf

This collection of studies deals with the nomads of western Central Eurasia (Khazars, Oghuz, and Qipchaqs in particular) between the 6th and 13th centuries and their political and cultural interaction with their sedentary neighbors, especially Kievan Rus' and Christian Transcaucasia.

Author : Kevin Alan Brook
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442203020

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The Jews of Khazaria by Kevin Alan Brook Pdf

The Jews of Khazaria chronicles the history of the Khazars, a people who, in the early Middle Ages, founded a large empire in eastern Europe (located in present-day Ukraine and Russia). The Khazars played a pivotal role in world history. Khazaria was one of the largest-sized political formations of its time, an economic and cultural superpower connected to several important trade routes. It was especially notable for its religious tolerance, and in the 9th century, a large portion of the royal family converted to Judaism. Many of the nobles and commoners did likewise shortly thereafter. After their conversion, the Khazars were ruled by a succession of Jewish kings that began to adopt the hallmarks of Jewish civilization, including the Torah and Talmud, the Hebrew script, and the observance of Jewish holidays. In this thoroughly revised edition of a modern classic, The Jews of Khazaria explores many exciting new discoveries about the Khazars' religious life, economy, military, government, and culture. It builds upon new studies of the Khazars, evaluating and incorporating recent theories, along with new documentary and archaeological findings. The book gives a comprehensive accounting of the cities, towns, and fortresses of Khazaria, and features a timeline summarizing key events in Khazar history.

Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1939438187

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The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler Pdf

This book traces the history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe, which in the Dark Ages became converted to Judaism. Khazaria was finally wiped out by the forces of Genghis Khan, but evidence indicates that the Khazars themselves migrated to Poland and formed the cradle of Western Jewry. To the general reader the Khazars, who flourished from the 7th to 11th century, may seem infinitely remote today. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on our world, which emerges as Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire. At about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. The Khazars' sway extended from the Black Sea to the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga, and they were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that in the West swept across northern Africa and into Spain. Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers: the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. As Koestler points out, the Khazars were the Third World of their day. They chose a surprising method of resisting both the Western pressure to become Christian and the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both, they converted to Judaism. Mr Koestler speculates about the ultimate faith of the Khazars and their impact on the racial composition and social heritage of modern Jewry. He produces a large body of meticulously detailed research.

Author : Marek Halter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 159264158X

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The Wind of the Khazars by Marek Halter Pdf

At a time when Charlemagne ruled, the Byzantines were encroaching upon Russia, and the faith of Allah was flourishing in Baghdad, there existed a kingdom with a tolerant, advanced civilization: somewhere between the Caucasus mountains and the Volga, the Khazar kingdom grew and flourished, and in one of the oddest choices ever made, converted itself to Judaism. A thousand years later, when the writer Marc Sofer is given an ancient Khazarian coin by a mysterious visitor, he is drawn into investigating the fascinating enigma of the Khazars. Why did these Steppe warriors decide to become Jews? Why, after centuries of power and prosperity, were they effaced from history? What is the connection between this ancient, vanished people, and the terrorist group calling themselves the New Khazars, who have begun attacking oil plants on the Caspian sea? Taking place both in the 10th century and the 21st, this absorbing, dramatic tale is part historical novel, part thriller. The story of the Khazars is interwoven with a contemporary political conspiracy in an unusual blend of reality and fiction that explores the ever important themes of history and identity.

Author : Karl Blind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798643626268

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Khazars by Karl Blind Pdf

Within clear historical time - between the eighth and the eleventh centuries - we meet with, in what is at present southern Russia, one of the most extraordinary kingdoms, fully provable, from Arab and Byzantine writers, to have been founded and upheld by a Turkish people. It was a Jewish-Mahometan kingdom of no mean culture, marked by justice and religious toleration. It went down in the turmoil of attacks made upon it by the Warangian chieftains of Russia, by Byzantine arms, and by rough nomadic tribes.

Author : Viacheslav Shpakovsky,David Nicolle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782000815

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Armies of the Volga Bulgars & Khanate of Kazan by Viacheslav Shpakovsky,David Nicolle Pdf

The Bulgars were a Turkic people who established a state north of the Black Sea. In the late 500s and early 600s AD their state fragmented under pressure from the Khazars; one group moved south into what became Bulgaria, but the rest moved north during the 7th and 8th centuries to the basin of the Volga river. There they remained under Khazar domination until the Khazar Khanate was defeated by Kievan Russia in 965. In the 1220s they managed to maul Genghis Khan's Mongols, who returned to devastate their towns in revenge. By the 1350s they had recovered much of their wealth, but they were caught in the middle between the Tatar Golden Horde and the Christian Russian principalities. They were ravaged by these two armies in turn on several occasions between 1360 and 1431. A new city then rose from the ashes – Kazan, originally called New Bulgar – and the successor Islamic Khanate of Kazan resisted the Russians until falling to Ivan the Terrible in 1552. The costumes, armament, armour and fighting methods of the Volga Bulgars during this momentous period are explored in this fully illustrated study.

Author : Boris Zhivkov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004294486

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Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries by Boris Zhivkov Pdf

In Khazaria in the Ninth and the Tenth Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship.

Author : C. Edmund Bosworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351880879

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The Turks in the Early Islamic World by C. Edmund Bosworth Pdf

This volume brings together a set of key articles, along with a new introduction to contextualize them, on the role of Turkish peoples in the Western Asiatic world up to the 11th century. Such topics as the geographical and environmental original milieux of these peoples in the forest zone and steppelands of Inner Asia, the formation and breakup of tribal confederations within the steppes, and the evolution of tribal structures, are examined as the background for the appearance of Turks within the Islamic caliphate from the 9th century onwards. These came first as military slaves, then as movements of peoples, such as the tribal migrations of the Oghuz, leading to the establishment of the Seljuq sultanate, whilst from within Islamic society, individual Turkish commanders were able at the same time to build up their own military empires such as that of the Ghaznavids. In this way was put in place a Turkish dominance of the northern tier of the Middle East, with attendant changes in demography and land utilisation, which was to last for centuries.

Author : Kevin Alan Brook
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781538103432

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The Jews of Khazaria by Kevin Alan Brook Pdf

The Jews of Khazaria explores the history and culture of Khazaria—a large empire in eastern Europe (located in present-day Ukraine and Russia) in the early Middle Ages noted for its adoption of the Jewish religion. The third edition of this modern classic features new and updated material throughout, including new archaeological findings, new genetic evidence, and new information about the migration of the Khazars. Though little-known today, Khazaria was one of the largest political formations of its time—an economic and cultural power connected to several important trade routes and known for its religious tolerance. After the royal family converted to Judaism in the ninth century, many nobles and common people did likewise. The Khazars were ruled by a succession of Jewish kings and adopted many hallmarks of Jewish civilization, including study of the Torah and Talmud, Hebrew script, and the observance of Jewish holidays. The third edition of The Jews of Khazaria tells the compelling true story of this kingdom past.