Khazaria

Khazar +‎ -ia.

Khazaria

1. (historical) A polity, established in medieval Eurasia by Khazars, that occupied much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus, parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.
   • 2007, Vladimir Ja. Petrukhin, Khazaria and Rus': An Examination of Their Historical Relations, Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai, András Róna-Tas (editors), The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives, Brill Publishers, page 245,

     An impartial evaluation of the relations between Khazaria and Rus' (or Eastern Slavs) within the limits imposed by official Soviet historiography was rather uncommon: the role of Khazaria was mainly pictured as an obstacle in the highly progressive processes of the development of the Russian state.

   • 2018, Kevin Alan Brook, The Jews of Khazaria, 3rd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, page 81:

     Jews continued to migrate to Khazaria from the Muslim and Byzantine lands circa 943 because they were still being forcefully converted to Christianity by Romanus, according to al-Masudi.

   • 2019, Jozef Borovský, Chrysalis I: Metamorphosis of Odium, FriesenPress, page 162:

     In 860, Byzantine Emperor Michael III Amorian and the Ecumenical Patriarch and Constantinopolitan Bishop Photios I who was Cyril's teacher dispatched the brothers on a missionary expedition to Khazaria, the Turkic Khazar Khaganate north of Persia to prevent the expansion of Judaism there.

• al-Khazar, Khazar Khaganate

• Khazar
• Khazarian

• Hazarika