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	Khazars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Khazars were important allies of the Byzantine Empire, and were a major regional power at their height.
		Early Khazar history is intimately tied with that of the Gokturk empire, founded when the Ashina clan overthrew the Juan Juan in 552 CE.
		Khazar coin minted in imitation of Caliphate dirhem and bearing the legend "Moses is the prophet of God", early 9th c.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khazar (5985 words)

	Jewish Warriors
		As the Khazar tribal confederacy developed, the Jews who had lived in Central Asia since the late centuries BCE, as well as those who came as a result of subsequent purges and forced conversion attempts from Persia, Byzantium, and elsewhere, were drawn in and became part of the Khazar entity.
		Khazar research and publication is, probably more than any other historical topic, extremely prone to misuse by extremist groups for self-serving agendas.
		The Khazars were among the first tribes to fully adopt the curved Saber in preference to the straight sword.
	www.geocities.com /jewishwarriors/khazar.html (928 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Khazars
		In the 7th century AD they founded an independent Khaganate in the Northern Caucasus along the Caspian Sea, where over time Judaism became the state religion.
		The possible Khazar contribution to the bloodline of modern Ashkenazi Jews is politically sensitive and has been the subject of much discussion, but most geneticists now believe that it is not substantial.
		Khazar warrior with captive, based on reconstruction by Norman Finkelshteyn of image from an 8th-century ewer found in Romania (original at http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/page2.html)
	www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=khazars (5530 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Khazars" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The first significant appearance of the Khazars in history is their aid to the campaign of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius against the Sassanid Persiansns.
		Some researchers have suggested part of the reason for this mass conversion was political expediency to maintain a degree of neutrality: The Khazar empire was between growing populations; Muslims to the east and Christianss to the west.
		Polish coins from the 12th and 13th centuries sometimes bore Slavic inscriptions written in the Hebrew alphabet [1] [2] though connecting these coins to Khazar influence is purely a matter of speculation.
	omnipelagos.com /entry?n=khazars (5490 words)

	Khazars - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Khazar warrior with captive, based on reconstruction by Norman Finkelshteyn of image from an 8th-century ewer found in Romania (original at [1] (http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/page2.html))
		Polish coins from the 12th and 13th centuries sometimes bore Slavic inscriptions written in the Hebrew alphabet [2] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/images.jsp?artid=479andletter=Randimgid=1665) [3] (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/images.jsp?artid=479andletter=Randimgid=1666) though connecting these coins to Khazar influence is purely a matter of speculation.
		Some have argued this suggests Middle Eastern men marrying into local European communities [4] (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C15F83F5D0C778DDDAC0894DA404482)[5] (http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts.html) meaning that Ashkenazim are either not related to Jewish Khazars or that Jewish Khazars represent only a small element of Ashkenazi ancestry rather than the dominant element suggested by Koestler.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Khazar (5772 words)

	Khazaria - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Khazaria also known as Khazar khaganate or Khazar khanate was the country of the Khazars, neighboring the Byzantine Empire in the southwest, Kievan Rus' in the northwest, Volga Bulgaria in the north, and Azerbaijan in the southeast.
		Its supreme ruler was known by the title khagan.
		Much of Khazaria was covered by steppe land.
	www.iridis.com /Khazaria (104 words)

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