A Turkic khaganate that dominated the Volga-Don steppes and North Caucasus, famously converting its ruling elite to Judaism and serving as a major trade hub between East and West.
Destroyed by the Kievan Rus under Sviatoslav I of Kiev in 968–969 CE, who sacked the Khazar capital Atil, effectively ending the khaganate as a major power; remnant Khazar communities persisted briefly thereafter.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Khazar Khaganate — the shape you scrub through changes in 650 · 750 · 850.
The leading scholarly collection on Khazar history, religion, and archaeology.
Places the Khazar khaganate of the Volga-Don steppes within the wider history of Turkic and steppe polities mediating trade between East and West.
A celebrated postmodern 'lexicon novel' built directly around the legendary Khazar conversion/polemic, making it the defining literary work associated with this polity despite being written many centuries later.