Kazarki was 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 ...
settlement. It was located west of the
Volga River
The Volga (, ) is the longest river in Europe and the longest endorheic basin river in the world. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchment ...
and north of
Sarkel
Sarkel (or Šarkel, literally "white house" in the Khazar language) was a large limestone-and-brick fortress in what is now Rostov Oblast of Russia, on the left bank of the lower Don River.
It was built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistan ...
(probably in the present-day
Penza Oblast
Penza Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Penza. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, its population was ...
), 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 (; ; ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ).
The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicised from , an Irish diminutive form.''A Dictiona ...
. ''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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