Khan-Tuvan Dyggvi also known as Tuğan Khagan, according to

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, was the name of a

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Khagan Khagan or Qaghan (Middle Mongol:; or ''Khagan''; ) or zh, c=大汗, p=Dàhán; ''Khāqān'', alternatively spelled Kağan, Kagan, Khaghan, Kaghan, Khakan, Khakhan, Khaqan, Xagahn, Qaghan, Chagan, Қан, or Kha'an is a title of empire, im ...

of the 825 AD. Per Pritsak, Dyggvi led a rebellion of the

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

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

speculated that a

khagan named Khan-Tuvan Dyggvi, escaped 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. Constantine Zuckerman 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. points out that the reconstruction by Pritsak is entirely speculative: Rostov did not exist that early in the 9th century, nothing is known about the presence of Rus at this time in this area, there are no records of

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royal family being involved (per Pritsak, the bride of Dyggvi's son was from Ynglingar). Nevertheless, the possible Khazar connection to early Rus' monarchs is supported by the use of a stylized trident

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, 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 Jonathan Shepard. ''The Emergence of Rus 750-1200.'' London: Longman, 1996. . *Pritsak, Omeljan. ''The Origin of

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''. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. *Pritsak, Omeljan. ''The Origins of the Old Rus' Weights and Monetary Systems. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1998. Khazar rulers 9th-century monarchs in Europe {{Europe-royal-stub

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