''Babaghuq'' was the title of an elected chieftain who was involved in the governance of a
Khazar
The Khazars ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a nomadic Turkic people who, in the late 6th century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, an ...
town, either in place of or in conjunction with a
tudun
A tudun was a governor resident in a town or other settlement in the ancient Bulgar, Avar or Gokturk empires, particularly those of the Bulgars and the Khazars. The tudun was the personal representative of the imperial government and could ...
or governor. The name means "father of the city".
Babaghuqs are recorded as being involved in city politics in
Cherson Cherson (or Kherson) may refer to the following places and jurisdictions :
* Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Kherson Oblast (province)
* Chersonesus Taurica, an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 ...
and
Tamatarkha.
References
Further reading
*Kevin Alan Brook. ''The Jews of Khazaria.'' 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006.
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Omeljan Pritsak
Omeljan Yosypovych Pritsak (; 7 April 1919 – 29 May 2006) was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of History of Ukraine, Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Rese ...
. "The Khazar Kingdom's Conversion to Judaism." ''Harvard Ukrainian Studies'' 3:2 (Sept. 1978): 278–279.
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Khazar titles