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Loki
02-06-2013, 05:19 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Chasaren.jpg/738px-Chasaren.jpg

The Khazars (Old Turkic: [citation needed] IPA: [hɑˈzɑɾ]) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest states of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus (Circassia, Dagestan), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.[4] Khazar inscriptions are mainly in an eastern Turkish runic script. Khazar Correspondence is one of the very few primary sources on history of Khazars. Khazaria was the first feudal state to be established in Eastern Europe.

During the 8th century, the Khazar royalty and much of the aristocracy converted to a form of Judaism.[19] Yitzhak ha-Sangari is the name of the rabbi who converted the Khazars to Judaism according to Jewish sources.
Khazars were judged according to the Torah, while the other tribes were judged according to their own laws.[15]

Being a surprisingly tolerant and pluralistic society, even its army incorporated Jews, Christians, Muslims and Pagans at a time when religious warfare was the order of the day around the Mediterranean and in Western Europe. By welcoming educated and worldly Jews from both Christian Europe and the Islamic Middle East, Khazars rapidly absorbed many of the arts and technologies of civilization. As a direct result of this cultural infusion, they became one of the very few Asian steppe tribal societies that successfully made the transition from nomad to urbanite. Settling in their newly created towns and cities between the Caspian Sea and the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea, they became literate and multi-lingual agriculturalists, manufacturers and international traders.[20]

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Your opinion- many of the Jewified Khazars moved into Europe and being know just as Jews?