Khan-Tuvan Dyggvi, according to

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, was the name of 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 ...

khagan Khagan or Qaghan (Mongolian:; or ''Khagan''; otk, 𐰴𐰍𐰣 ), or , tr, Kağan or ; ug, قاغان, Qaghan, Mongolian Script: ; or ; fa, خاقان ''Khāqān'', alternatively spelled Kağan, Kagan, Khaghan, Kaghan, Khakan, Khakhan ...

of the mid 830s. He led a rebellion of the

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against the

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. As this rebellion took place roughly contemporaneously with the conversion of the Khazars to

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, Pritsak and others have speculated that the rebellion had a religious aspect.

speculated that a

khagan named Khan-Tuvan Dyggvi, exiled after losing a civil war, settled with his followers in the Norse-Slavic settlement of

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, married into the local Scandinavian nobility, and fathered the dynasty of the Rus' khagans.

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dismisses Pritsak's theory as untenable speculation, and no record of any Khazar khagan fleeing to find refuge among the Rus' exists in contemporaneous sources. Nevertheless, the possible Khazar connection to early Rus' monarchs is supported by the use of a stylized trident

tamga A tamga or tamgha (from otk, 𐱃𐰢𐰍𐰀, tamga, lit=stamp, seal; tr, damga; mn, tamga; ; ); an abstract seal or stamp used by Eurasian nomads and by cultures influenced by them. The tamga was normally the emblem of a particular tribe, ...

, or seal, by later Rus' rulers such as

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; similar tamgas are found in ruins that are definitively Khazar in origin.Brook 154; Franklin and Shepard 120-121; Pritsak, ''Weights'' 78-79.

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* Brook, Kevin Alan. ''The Jews of Khazaria .'' 2d ed. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006. *Duczko, Władysław.
Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe
'. Brill, 2004. *Franklin, Simon and

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. ''The Emergence of Rus 750-1200.'' London: Longman, 1996. . *Pritsak, Omeljan. ''The Origin of Rus'''. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. *Pritsak, Omeljan. ''The Origins of the Old Rus' Weights and Monetary Systems. Cambridge, MA:

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, 1998. Khazar rulers 9th-century rulers in Europe {{Europe-royal-stub

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