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"Khazars" in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1897 |
 | | This vanished people, who appear also as Chozars, as 'Akatziroi or Xazaroi in Byzantine writers, as Khazirs in Armenian and Khwalisses in Russian chronicles, Ugri Bielii in Nestor, and Kosa (?) in Chinese, occupied a prominent place amongst the secondary powers of the Byzantine state-system. |
 | | They are identified with good reason (by Zeuss, V. St. Martin, Howorth, Latham) with the 'Akatziroi (perhaps Ak-Khazari, "White Khazars") who appear upon the Lower Volga in the Byzantine annals, and thence they have been deduced, though with less convincing proof, either from the 'Agathirsoi or the Katiaroi of Herodotus, iv. |
 | | The emperor Theodosius, with reason terrified for civilization, sent envoys to bribe the Khazars ('Akatziroi) to divert the Huns from the empire by an attack upon their flank. |
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