Theophanes the Confessor
Saint Theophanes the Confessor( c. 758/760 – March 12, 817/818) was a member of the Byzantine aristocracy who became a monk and chronicler.
He served in the court of Emperor Leo IV the Khazar before taking up the religious life.
Theophanes attended the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 and resisted the iconoclasm of Leo V the Armenian, for which he was imprisoned.
He died shortly after his release.
Theophanes is venerated on March 12 in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
( He should not be confused with Theophanes of Nicaea, whose is commemorated on October 11.)
Igor Ponomaryov
Igor Anatolyevich Ponomaryov( born 24 February 1960 in Baku) is a retired Soviet football player and currently manager of the Khazar Lankaran.
Serach (Khazar)
In the Schechter Letter, Serakh is the wife of the Khazar ruler Sabriel.
A Jew, she encourages her husband and other Khazars to convert to Judaism and establish it as the official religion of Khazaria.
Serakh is not mentioned in the Khazar Correspondence or the Kuzari.
Some scholars have postulated that the Khazar conversion to Judaism came as a result of contact with existing Jewish populations in the Crimea and the Caucasus, possibly the ancestors of the Krymchaks or Mountain Jews.
As with so much of Khazar studies, the absence of documentary evidence renders the question of whether Serakh belonged to one of these groups a matter of speculation.
Kurszán
Kurszán( died 904), was a kende of the Magyars in the dual leadership with Árpád serving as a gyula- according to a mainstream theory.
While probably kende was roughly correspondent to the Khazar title khagan, Kurszán's role equated to the Khazar military title bek.
In Latin sources he was referred to as" rex" and some scholars say he had a political status as a sacred king until he was massacred in a political plot of Western rulers and was temporarily succeeded by Árpád.
Constantine V
Constantine V (July, 718 AD – 14 September 775 AD) was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775.
His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats.
As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of civil war in the Muslim world to make limited offensives on the Arab frontier.
With this eastern frontier secure, he undertook repeated campaigns against the Bulgars in the Balkans.
His military activity, and policy of settling Christian populations from the Arab frontier in Thrace, made Byzantium's hold on its Balkan territories more secure.
Religious strife and controversy was a prominent feature of his reign.
His fervent support of Iconoclasm and opposition to monasticism led to his vilification by later Byzantine historians and writers, who denigrated him as "Kopronymos" or "Copronymus" (Κοπρώνυμος), meaning "the dung-named".
Oshin of Korikos
Oshin of Korikos( or Corycos)( died 1329) served as regent of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1320 to 1329.
He was the son of the historian Hayton of Korikos.
He became regent for Leo IV on the death of King Oshin in 1320, whom he was rumoured to have poisoned.
Oshin was also probably responsible for the deaths of King Oshin's sister Princess Isabella of Armenia and two of her sons, in order to remove rival claimants.
Oshin married twice: Oshin and his daughter Alice( Leo's wife) were assassinated in 1329 at the behest of Leo IV.
Bihar (Khazar)
Bihar was a Khagan of the Khazars during the 730s.
Bihar was the father of Tzitzak, the Khazar princess who married the son of Byzantine Emperor Leo III who later ruled as Constantine V. Bihar was thus the grandfather of Emperor Leo IV the Khazar.
He is called" Viharos" in Armenian sources.
Leo IV the Khazar
Leo IV "the Khazar"
(Greek:
Λέων Δ΄ ὁ Χάζαρος, "Leōn IV ho Khazaros"; 25 January 750 – 8 September 780) was Byzantine Emperor from 775 to 780 AD.
He was born to Emperor Constantine V and Empress Tzitzak in 750.
He was elevated to caesar the next year, in 751, and married to Irene of Athens in 768.
When Constantine V died in September 775, while campaigning against the Bulgarians, Leo IV became senior emperor on 14 September 775.
In 778 Leo raided Abbasid Syria, decisively defeating the Abbasid army outside of Germanicia.
Leo died on 8 September 780, of tuberculosis.
He was meant to be succeeded by his son Constantine VI, but rule instead transferred to his wife Irene, who assumed the role of regent and later empress.
Ali Rahuma
Ali Khalifa Rahuma( born May 16, 1982) is a Libyan football midfielder who's nationality is Libyan.
He currently plays for Al- Ittihad, and is a member of the Libya national football team.
Aguk Shain
Aguk Shain was an 8th- century Chechen commander in the Arab- Khazar Wars.
Shain is mentioned in the book Yu Aidaeva" Chechens: Past and Present", where he is described as the head of the Chechen- auhovtsev( auharov), which was involved in the Khazar wars with the Arabs.
He was, the author assumes, the second person in the Khazar army.
In addition, excavations on the outskirts of the Giachalk( Khazar- Kala) village show that he had close economic ties with Akkins Khazars.
Shain led some of the Khazar troops.
This confirmed the inclusion of Chechens in the Khazar Khanate, to which they were loyal.
The 735–736 Arabic commander Nirvana managed to destroy the fortress" Hasni- Hisnumma"( Khazar- Kala) and capture the fortress auhovs" KeshKeshen" Keshne).
These fortresses were inhabited by Chechens auhar( Akkins); however, he was then captured himself.

Question: What nationality is Leo Iv The Khazar's father?
Answer: Byzantine