A group of Caucasus Jews circa 1876. While there were many Jews living in Georgia, Armenia and the Caucasus, the claims that all of European Jewry stemmed from the 8th century Khazar empire is not ...

This Aug. 15, 2005 photo gives an aerial view of the citadel of Itil, a Silk Road city that served as the Khazar capital, near Astrakhan, about 800 miles (1280 km) south of Moscow.

The Khazar Empire was overrun by Svyatoslav of Kiev around the year 969, and little was heard from the Khazars after. Yet a widely held belief that the Khazars or their leaders at some point ...

The Khazars succeeded in holding off the Arabs, but a young, expanding Russian state vanquished the Khazar empire in the late 10th century. Medieval Russian epic poems mention Russian warriors ...

A Russian archaeologist says he has found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago, only to disappear leaving ...

This does not mean that there were not Jews of different origins who moved up into Russia from the Ottoman Empire and around the Black Sea. Some Khazars might have migrated north, as did Sephardi ...

Map of the Khazar kingdom and surrounding regions, ... and many believed that in the intervening millennium since the demise of the Khazar empire in the 10th century, ...

While the theory that Jews are descended from Khazars has been discredited, many historians think that the aristocracy of the Khazar empire did in fact convert to Judaism in seventh-century C.E.

The 8 th-century leaders of the Khazar Empire, famously, converted from their shamanistic religion and worship of a deity named Tengri to Judaism. A semi-nomadic Turkic tribe, ...

“The Khazar Empire,” the first and only Jewish Empire outside the Holy Land, will be the topic of Hassan (Sam) Mahmoud at the first Wednesday Luncheon of the Westfield Historical Society at ...