Khazars

The Khazars () were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who established a major commercial empire in the late 6th century CE spanning the south of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, and western Kazakhstan. It was the most powerful polity to emerge from the break-up of the Western Turkic Khaganate. Astride a major artery of commerce between Eastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, Khazaria became one of the foremost trading empires of the early medieval world, commanding the western marches of the Silk Road and playing a key commercial role as a crossroad between China, the Middle East, and Kievan

peninsula

ethnic group

Turkic language spoken by the Crimean Karaites

Turkic royal clan

thumb|right|Georgian nobleman Constantine Gelovani wearing a chokha with military [[shoulder marks]] A chokha, also known as a cherkeska in Russian, is a woolen coat with a high neck that is part of the traditional male dress of the peoples of the Caucasus, as well as Terek and Kuban Cossacks of the former Russian Empire, who subsequently adopted it from the Native peoples of the Caucasus.

historical ethnical group

novel by Milorad Pavić

The Kuzari, full title Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion (; : ''Kitâb al-ḥujja wa'l-dalîl fi naṣr al-dîn al-dhalîl), also known as the Book of the Khazar (: Sefer ha-Kuzari''), is one of the most famous works of the medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher, physician, and poet Judah Halevi, completed in the Hebrew year 4900 (1139-40CE).

The Kabars (), also known as Qavars (Qabars) or Khavars, were Khazar rebels who joined Magyar tribes and the Rus' Khaganate confederations in the 9th century CE.

in German legends, a Jewish nation that would invade Europe during the tribulations leading to the end of the world

theory that Ashkenazi Jews descended from Turkic Khazars

Aytākh or Ītākh al-Khazarī () was a leading commander in the Turkic army of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim (r. 833-842 C.E.).

Levedi, or Lebed, Levedias, Lebedias, and Lebedi () was a Hungarian chieftain, the first known leader of the Hungarians.

historiographical term

Samvatas (also Sambatas, ) is a historical name for Kyiv or its fortress. It is attested in the 10th century by the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus, who reports in the treatise De Administrando Imperio (c. 948) regarding the "fortress of Kioava, called Sambatas". It is a hapax legomenon; the toponym is not mentioned anywhere else.

silver coins minted in the Khazar Khaganate and other Turkic polities in medieval Eurasia

Legendary rabbi