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O. B. Bubenok The Khazars in the History of Eastern Europe
Today, the Khazar studies are very popular in Eastern Europe and
the Northern Caucasus. However the modern scholars can not explain
many questions on the Khazar history. So, we know very little about
the origin of the Khazars. We do not know when the Khazars ap-
peared in the South of Eastern Europe 袈rstly. It is not known as well
when the Khazars converted to Judaism. We can not explain the cha-
racter of the relationship between the Khazars and some peoples of
Eastern Europe. We will never know who the descendants of the
Khazars were.
Therefore incredible hypothesis about the Khazars have spread to
a wide audience. Thus, the main purpose of the proposed work is to
identify the Khazar factor in the ethnopolitical and cultural develop-
ment of the population of South of Eastern Europe in the early and
developed Middle Ages.
The different sources were used for the completing it. There are
the written texts in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Greek, Old Rus’ian,
Latin, Armenian languages and also the data of archeological, folk-
lore researches.
The history of the Khazars has traditionally been practiced by both
Orientalist historians and researchers of the history of Ancient Rus’,
and also by archaeologists. Among them O. Pritsak was as the major
specialist on the Khazar studies. He was a founder of the A. Krym-
sky’s Institute of Oriental studies. In 2019 we celebrate his 100th an-
niversary.
When investigating sources on the history of the Khazars, quite
often a paradoxical situation arises – the researchers tend to interpret
information about the Khazars from the same medieval sources in dif-
ferent ways. Therefore the author of this book tried to explain it.
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