Kazarki was a
Khazar
The Khazars ; he, כּוּזָרִים, Kūzārīm; la, Gazari, or ; zh, 突厥曷薩 ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a semi-nomadic Turkic people that in the late 6th-century CE established a major commercial empire coverin ...
settlement. It was located west of the
Volga River
The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchme ...
and north of
Sarkel
Sarkel (or Šarkel, literally ''white house'' in the 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 ass ...
(probably in the present-day
Penza Oblast
Penza Oblast (russian: Пе́нзенская о́бласть, ''Penzenskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Penza. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,386,186.
Geogra ...
), from roughly the 7th through the 10th centuries CE. The area around it was known in early Russian sources as ''Volost' Kazarskaya'', or "Khazar region."
[Brook 38; Golden 75.]
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Kevin Alan Brook
Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ).
The variant '' Kevan'' is anglicized from , a ...
. ''The Jews of Khazaria,'' 3rd ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018.
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Peter B. Golden. ''Khazar Studies: An Historico-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars,'' Vol. 1. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980.
Khazar towns
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