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Khazar|kəˈzɑː(r)|
Also Chazar, Chozar, Khozar.
[Heb.]
A member of a people of Turkish origin who from the 8th to the 10th or 11th century occupied a large part of southern Russia. Also attrib.
1854J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks ii. i. 63 The horde of Chozars, as this Turkish tribe was called,..transported their tents..into Georgia. 1854R. G. Latham Native Races Russ. Empire x. 143 The Khazars poured themselves over eastern Europe in the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th centuries. 1863[see Turkic a.]. 1878R. G. Latham Russian & Turk viii. 210 The Khazars seem to play the same part in the history of Eastern Russia that the Avars played in that of Southern Bavaria... We meet the term Chazaria as the land of the Khazars. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 60/1 Merchants from every nation found protection..in the Khazar cities. 1903Jewish Encycl. IV. 1/1 The Chazars..established themselves in the territory bounded by the Sea of Azov, the Don and the lower Volga. 1930C. A. Macartney Magyars in 9th Cent. 62 From a short time after the arrival of the Khazars, the Cuban Bulgars disappear from history. 1934A. G. Chater tr. Undset's Stages on Road i. 29 The Khozars of the Crimea..were Tartars who had been converted to Judaism and were ruled by a Jewish king. 1952E. Hyams Soil & Civilization 171 The Jewish religion was adopted by the Chazar princes. 1965[see Bulgar n.]. |