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(historical) A polity, established in medieval Eurasia by Khazars, that occupied much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus, parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey. quotations
An impartial evaluation of the relations between Khazaria and Rus' (or Eastern Slavs) within the limits imposed by official Soviet historiography was rather uncommon: the role of Khazaria was mainly pictured as an obstacle in the highly progressive processes of the development of the Russian state.
2007, Vladimir Ja. Petrukhin, Khazaria and Rus': An Examination of Their Historical Relations, Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai, András Róna-Tas (editors), The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives, Brill Publishers, page 245
Jews continued to migrate to Khazaria from the Muslim and Byzantine lands circa 943 because they were still being forcefully converted to Christianity by Romanus, according to al-Masudi.
2018, Kevin Alan Brook, The Jews of Khazaria, 3rd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, page 81
In 860, Byzantine Emperor Michael III Amorian and the Ecumenical Patriarch and Constantinopolitan Bishop Photios I who was Cyril's teacher dispatched the brothers on a missionary expedition to Khazaria, the Turkic Khazar Khaganate north of Persia to prevent the expansion of Judaism there.
2019, Jozef Borovský, Chrysalis I: Metamorphosis of Odium, FriesenPress, page 162