Early Turkic States
The Hazar Khanate
Subtopics
The Roots and Language of the HazarsThe ethnic tribe that founded the first regular state in east Europe had been the Hazar's. The Hazar's had been a pure tribe in Middle Asia. With thei…The Hazarian GeographyThe fields that had been occupied by the Hazars are of geopolitical importance. These were: the fields where the roads of China-Turkisthan-Black Sea-…The Gok-Turk Dependent Hazar's Help to ByzantiumAfter the years 558 having fought with the Sasani, the Hazar's (better to say Sabar's) proclaimed to be a tribe dominating over the Caucasian, were we…The Founding of the Hazar KhanateThe real khanate period of the Hazar history begins after 630. At this time, with the Gok-Turk khanate accepting the Chinese domination a rulerless pe…The Hazar-Byzantium RelationsThe Hazar State had be the best allied of Byzantium against Iran. The Sasani Empire, that weakened in the years 634-637 due to the Turkish-Byzantian c…The Fight with the ArabsIn the years following 665, as the "Great Bulgaria" state in the north Black Sea had scattered in front of the strong Hazar expanding, all the plain l…The Progress of the Hazarian StateThis strong resistance, which had been shown against the Arabic army in the most powerful periods of the Islamic caliphate empire again brought the st…"The Hazar Peace" (Pax Khazarica)As it is described in the sources the Hazarian khanate had lived in prosperity. Ibn Fadlan (922) tells that the Hazar's traded with honey, candles, fl…The Hazar ReligionThe "Hazar Peace" had accelerated the communication, increased the goods exchange, which made the khanate to a country where merchants and artists fro…The Influence of the Hazars over the SlavsThe commercial activities that had started with the silence and ease provided by the "Hazar Peace", helped to form the Russian-Slavic State, which is…The Influence of the Hazar over the HungarianThe Hazarian Khanate also is in the position of the real founder of the Hungarian (Magyar) State. Actually being an Ural (Fin-Ugor) tribe, the Ungaria…The Fall of the Hazar EmpireThe Hazarian Khanate began to lose power in the middle of the 10th century. This was, naturally, the end of the social uneasiness that came up in earl…General Characteristics of the Hazar EmpireIt can be said that the Hazar domination in the VIII.-IX. centuries had been a frontier to the domination of the Golden Army over the Russian country…