The Brutakhi were a Jewish polity of uncertain location and origin during the early 13th century.
The Brutakhi were a Jewish polity of uncertain location and origin during the early 13th century.
== History == Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, a 13th-century papal legate to the court of the Mongol Khan Guyuk, gave a list of the nations the Mongols had conquered in his account. One of them, listed among tribes of the Caucasus, Pontic steppe and the Caspian region, was the "Brutakhi, who are Jews." Nikolay Karamzin pointed to the fact that Carpine meant Burtas by Brutaches.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).