page_title: Sarkel
hierarchical_section_title: Sarkel
caption_attribution_description: English: Migration of the Hungarians from Russia.
context_page_description: Sarkel was a large limestone-and-brick fortress in the present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia, on the left bank of the lower Don River.
  It was built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistance in the 830s or 840s. It was named Sarkel, or 'white-house', because of the white limestone bricks used in its construction.
context_section_description: Sarkel (or Sharkil, literally white house in Khazar language) was a large limestone-and-brick fortress in the present-day Rostov Oblast of Russia, on the left bank of the lower Don River.
  It was built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistance in the 830s or 840s. It was named Sarkel, or 'white-house', because of the white limestone bricks used in its construction.
caption: Migration of Hungarians
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