Informational Snippets of Importance
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The Khazars (Extent of Empire) by Peter Wolfe and Jeff Zolitor
https://www.csjo.org/resources/essays/the-khazars-by-peter-wolfe-and-jeff-zolitor
Extract:
At the height of their empire the tribe known as the Khazars controlled an area roughly encompassing The Ural Mountains to the Carpathian Range, the Caucusus,and much of the Black Sea. About 1/3 of what is now Eastern Europe, as well as much of the Asian Steppes came under direct control of the Khazars or one of their client states. The powers of the world at the time, Islam and Christianity, were pushing ever closer to a total domination of much of the populated world. The Eastern Caliphate with its seat in Baghdad, had begun to cross the Caucusus and had hoped to conquer the area of the Black Sea and Eastern Europe.
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Were the Viking Founders of Russia Khazars?
Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_hypothesis_of_Ashkenazi_ancestry
Extract:
in the context of an early controversy over the foundations of the Russian state, which pitted scholars espousing a Norman origin for the Varangians against those who argued that these founders of the Kievan Rus' were Slavic and indigenous. [1808 Johann] Ewers proposed the idea that the Viking/Varangian founders were in fact Khazars.
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