Khazar Khaganate
Journal: The Encyclopedia of Empire
Year: 2016

Abstract The Khazar Khaganate, or Qaganate (mid‐7th century to c.969), a successor state of the Western Türk Khaganate, constituted one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, extending from the Middle Volga region to the North Caucasus and Crimea and from the Don–Dnieper zone to the borders of Khwarazm. In a series of wars in the 8th century, it halted the Arab advance beyond the North Caucasus and subsequently became one of the major links in trans‐Eurasian trade and in the commerce of th