Kazarki

Kazarki

Kazarki was a Khazar settlement. It was located west of the Volga River and north of Sarkel, probably in the present-day Penza Oblast. from roughly the 7th through the 10th centuries CE. The area around it was known in early Russian sources as "Volost' Kazarskaya", or "Khazar region." [Brook 43; Golden 75.]

References

Resources

*Kevin Alan Brook. "The Jews of Khazaria," 1st ed., Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1999. (Second edition forthcoming)
*Peter B. Golden. "Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars," Vol. 1. Budapest: Akademia Kiado, 1980.


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