Battle of Balanjar (730s)

Infobox Military Conflict

http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/page2.html] )]
caption="Khazar warrior with captive", based on reconstruction by Norman Finkelshteyn
conflict=Battle of Marj Ardebil
partof=the Second Khazar-Arab War
date=c. 732 CE
place=Balanjar
result=Arab victory
combatant1=Khazar Khaganate
combatant2=Umayyad Caliphate
commander1=Unknown
commander2=Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik
strength1=?
strength2=?
casualties1=?
casualties2=?

The Battle of Balanjar was fought around 732 near the Khazar city of Balanjar. The Umayyad army, commanded by the prince Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, was victorious and advanced on towards Samandar.Fact|date=February 2008

ee also

*Battle of Balanjar

References

*Kevin Alan Brook. "The Jews of Khazaria." 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006.
*Douglas M. Dunlop. "The History of the Jewish Khazars," Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954.
*Peter B. Golden. "Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars." Budapest: Akademia Kiado, 1980.
*Norman Golb and Omeljan Pritsak, "Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century." Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.