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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Azerbaijani Jews, Jewish Azerbaijani history, Khazars, Lev Landau, Leo IV the Khazar, Zecharia Sitchin, List of Azeris, Kuzari, Lev Nussimbaum, Mountain Jews, Khazars in fiction, Teimour Radjabov, Juhuri language, Mirza Khazar, Subbotniks, List of Khazar rulers, Emil Sutovsky, Stass Shpanin, Khazar language, Dov Gazit, Telman Ismailov, Max Black, Taman Peninsula, Q rm z Q s b, Yuli Gusman, Bella Davidovich, Lala Hasanova, Yitzhak ha-Sangari, Pax Khazarica, Valery Belenky, Red Jews, Albert Agarunov, Yevgeny Petrosyan, Misha Black, Sara Ashurbeyli, Al-Fadhl ibn Muhammad, Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Yosef Shagal, Abraham Prochownik, Brutakhi, Solomon Grobshtein, Alp Iluetuer, Jews of Azerbaijan, Ohr Avner Chabad Day School, Lebedias, Yarmaq, John of Gothia, Leon II of Abkhazia, Gazaria, Kozar, Khvaliskoye. Excerpt: The Khazars were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus (Circassia, Dagestan), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey. A successor state of the Western Turks, Khazaria was a polyethnic state with a population of Turkic, Uralic, Slavic, and Palaeo-Caucasian peoples. Khazaria was the first feudal state to be established in Eastern Europe. During the 9th and 10th centuries, Khazaria was one of the major arteries of commerce between northern Europe and southwestern Asia, as well as a connection to the Silk Road. The name "Khazar" is found in numerous languages and seems to be tied to a Turkic verb form meaning "wandering" (Modern Turkish: Gezer). Because of their jurisdiction over the area, the Caspian Sea was named the "Khazar Sea," and even today the Azeri, Turkish, Persian, ...
