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Old October 28th, 2013 #65
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Khazars were instrumental in the creation of the Magyar homeland of Hungary.
Hungarian rulers were always referred to as "Princes of the Turks".



The Kabars or Khavars were Khalyzians, Turkic Khazar people who joined the Magyar confederation in the 9th century.

The Kabars consisted of three Khazar tribes who rebelled against the Khazar Khaganate some time in the ninth century; the rebellion was notable enough to be described in Constantine Porphyrogenitus's work De Administrando Imperio. Subsequently the Kabars were expelled from the Khazar Khaganate and sought refuge by joining the Magyar tribal confederacy called Hét-Magyar (meaning "seven Hungarians.") The three Kabar tribes accompanied the Magyar invasion of Pannonia and the subsequent formation of the Principality of Hungary in the late 9th century.

It is thought to have been the Alano-As and Oğuric Turkic tribes, who were numerically superior within Khazaria.

Around 833 the Hungarian tribal confederacy was living in Levedia, between the Don and the Dnieper rivers, within the orbit of the Khazar empire. Russian chronicles, commenting on the role of the Khazars in the magyarization of Hungary, refer to them as "White Oghurs" and Magyars as "Black Ogurs.

Many Turkic nations had a similar division between a "white" ruling warrior caste and a "black" class of commoners.

The proto-Hungarian Pontic tribe, while perhaps threatening Khazaria as early as 839, developed its institutional models, such as the dual rule of a ceremonial kende-kündü and a gyula administering practical and military administration, under Khazar tutelage. A dissident group of Khazars, the Qabars, joined the Hungarians in their flight from the Pechenegs as they moved into Pannonia. Elements within the Hungarian population can be viewed as perpetuating Khazar traditions as a successor state. Byzantine sources refer to Hungary as Western Tourkia in contrast to Khazaria, Eastern Tourkia. The gyula line produced the kings of medieval Hungary through descent from Árpád, while the Qabars retained their traditions longer, and were known as “black Hungarians” (fekete magyarság). Some archeological evidence from Čelarevo suggests the Qabars practiced Judaism.

Christian of Stavelot in his Expositio in Matthaeum Evangelistam (ca.860-870s) refers to Khazars as descendants of Gog and Magog, who were circumcised and observed all the laws of Judaism.

Persian historian Ibn al-Faqîh wrote that 'all the Khazars are Jews, but they have been Judaized recently'. Ibn Fadlân, based on his Caliphal mission (921-922) to the Volga Bulğars, also reported that 'the core element of the state, the Khazars, were Judaized'.

A tradition of the Iranian Judeo-Tats claims that their ancestors were responsible for the Khazar conversion.

Solomon (Hungarian: Salamon; 1053 – 1087) was King of Hungary.

A popular, if in academic terms minoritarian, thesis holds that the Khazar Jewish population went into a northern diaspora and had a significant impact on the rise of Ashkenazi Jews. Connected to this thesis is the theory, expounded by linguist Paul Wexler, that the grammar of Yiddish contains a Khazar substrate (
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).

Several scholars have suggested that the Khazars did not disappear after the dissolution of their Empire, but migrated West to eventually form part of the core of the later Ashkenazi Jewish population of Europe.

In 1909 Hugo von Kutschera developed the notion into a book-length study, arguing Khazars formed the foundational core of the modern Ashkenazi.


See also

The
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(Turko-Persian) whose founding traditions mention Khazar connections.