History of Armenia by Hovhannēs Drasxanakertc'i

History of Armenia by Hovhannēs Drasxanakertc

After the Avar supremacy in Mongolia was shaken by the Celestial Blue Turks (Kök Türks/Türküts) in 552, some Avars and Hephthalites (q.v.) arrived in the Volgan-Pontic steppe after 557, where they subjugated some Oḡur tribes, but were forced, by the attacking Turks, to migrate to Pannonia about 567. after 454 CE), Oḡur and other Turkic tribes driven westwards by the Sabirs, and the Sabirs themselves driven westwards by the Avars (Juanjuan, Uar-Hun). The kernel of the future Khazar confederation was made up of remnants of Attila’s European Huns (q.v. The Khazar state, like many other steppe states, was imported into Western Eurasia.

Contemporary sources often used the names “Khazar” and “Turk” interchangeably, reflecting thus the continuation of the Western Turkic Qaḡanate (see KHAGAN) rule among the Khazars. mostly Turkic), Finnic, Ugrian, Slavic, Iranian, and North Caucasian stock. The population included both nomadic and settled groups, of Altaic (q.v. The related Alans (q.v.), as well as other Eastern Iranian groupings, also featured prominently in Khazar history.

Parts of the territories of the Khazar state had been occupied in the past by Saka-Scythian tribes, some of whose remnants were later, possibly, assimilated by Turkic-speaking nomads. The Khazar confederation/empire was possibly the most long-lived steppe power of Eurasia. of Turkey, Hazar Old Rus’ian, Kozar Medieval Hebrew, Kozar and Qazar Greek, Xazaroi ), the name of a polyethnic tribal confederation in Eastern Europe, from the mid-7th century until the late 10th century, led by a Turkic tribe of the same name. A version of this article is available in print

History of Armenia by Hovhannēs Drasxanakertc'i