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Although Poliak argued that the Khazar kingdom did not wholly succumb to Sviatoslav's campaign, but lingered on until 1224, when the Mongols invaded Rus', [131] [132] by most accounts, the Rus'-Oghuz campaigns left Khazaria devastated, with perhaps many Khazarian Jews in flight, [133] and leaving behind at best a minor rump state.
Map of the Caucasus c.1060, with Alania ... Alania was a medieval kingdom of the Iranian ... The Khazars erected Skhimar and several other strongholds in Alania at ...
The Khazar king Joseph gave the following account of the genealogy of the Bulanids.. Since [the time of the conversion to Judaism], when my fathers entered into this religion, the God of Israel has humbled all of their enemies, subjecting every folk and tongue round about them, whether Christian, Muslim, or pagan.
The 2002 discovery of a coin hoard in Sweden further complicates the issue, as some of the coins bear dates from the early 9th century and the legends "Ard al-Khazar" (Land of the Khazars) and "Moses is the Prophet of God". Since the coins date from 837 AD or 838 AD, some scholars think the conversion occurred in 838 AD.
Roderich von Erckert's 1887 map of the Sasanin Persoan fortifications of the Caspian Gates at Derbent. The Arab–Khazar wars were part of a long series of military conflicts between the nomadic peoples of the Pontic–Caspian steppe and the more settled regions south of the Caucasus.
Bulan (meaning "elk" [1] or "hart" in Old Turkic) was a Khazar ruler, and the founder of the Bulanid dynasty.He is usually identified as being the same with Sabriel, the king who led the khazar conversion to Judaism, and thus he is sometimes referred to as Bulan Sabriel.
Khazaran was a city in the Khazar kingdom, located on the eastern bank of the lower Volga River.It was connected to Atil by a pontoon bridge.. Khazaran was later inhabited primarily by Muslims and featured numerous mosques, minarets, and madrasas.