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| | Re: [CTRL] Khazaria....... |
 | | There was a tradition, believed by the Khazars themselves, that Bulan decided to become a Jew after he had listened to a disputation participated in by an Arab mullah, a Christian priest, and a rabbi on the relative merits of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. |
 | | In 969, the Khazars were driven out of the entire Caspian Sea region and retreated into the Bosporus region of the Black Sea where, in a smaller and more compact area, they were able to stem the advance of the invaders. |
 | | It is also significant that Tshagataish, the language of the Khazar Jews, a Turkish dialect, is still spoken in Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania by the Karaites, the Jewish sectarians whose homeland was originally in the Crimea. |
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