Following the fall of Khazaria to Kievan Rus' in the late 10th century, Kerch became the centre of a Khazar successor-state. Its ruler, Georgius Tzul, was deposed by a Byzantine-Rus expedition in 1016. From the 10th century, the city was a Slavic settlement named Korchev, which belonged to the Tmutarakan principality.

Atil was located along the Volga delta at the northwestern corner of the Caspian Sea.Following the defeat of the Khazars in the Second Arab-Khazar War, Atil became the capital of Khazaria.. Ibn Khordadbeh, writing in ca. 870, names Khamlij as the capital of the Khazars. This is presumably a rendition of Turkic khaganbaligh "city of the khan" and refers to the city later (in …

Tmutarakan (Russian: Тмутарака́нь, IPA: [tmʊtərɐˈkanʲ], Adyghe: Тамтаркъей, romanized: Tamtarqey; Ukrainian: Тмуторокань, romanized: Tmutorokan) was a medieval Kievan Rus' principality and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, between the late 10th and 11th centuries.

The Volga (/ ˈ v ɒ l ɡ ə, ˈ v oʊ l ɡ ə /; Russian: Во́лга) 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 3,531 km (2,194 mi), and a catchment area of 1,360,000 km 2 (530,000 sq mi) which is more than twice the size of Ukraine.It is also Europe's largest river in terms of ...

Il Gran Khanato di Khazaria o Khanato di Khazaria o Impero di Khazaria (618 – 1016) deriva il suo nome dai Khazari, una popolazione di origine ariana ma di idioma turco, che si era insediata nelle steppe del sud-est russo a partire dal VII secolo.Il Gran khanato confinava a sud-ovest con l'Impero Bizantino, a nord-ovest con la Rus' di Kiev, a nord con le terre abitate dai Bulgari del …

Alania was a medieval kingdom of the Iranian Alans (proto-Ossetians) that flourished in the Northern Caucasus, roughly in the location of latter-day Circassia, Chechnya, Ingushetia, and modern North Ossetia–Alania, from its independence from the Khazars in the late 9th century until its destruction by the Mongol invasion in 1238–39. Its capital was Maghas, and it …

Antisemitic canards, tropes or myths are "sensational reports, misrepresentations, or fabrications" that are defamatory towards Judaism as a religion or defamatory towards Jews as an ethnic or religious group. Since the Middle Ages, they have formed parts of broader antisemitic conspiracy theories.. Some antisemitic canards or false accusations date back to the birth of Christianity, …

Oleg the Prophet (Old East Slavic: Ѡлегъ Olegŭ; Old Norse: Helgi; Russian: Олег Вещий, romanized: Oleg Veshchy, lit. 'Oleg the Prophet'; Ukrainian: Олег Віщий, romanized: Oleh Vishchyi) was a Rurikid prince who ruled all or part of the Rus' people during the late 9th and early 10th centuries. He is credited by Rus' Chronicles with moving from either Staraya Ladoga (Old ...

The Kuzari takes place during a conversion of some Khazar nobility to Judaism. The historicity of this event is debated. The Khazar Correspondence, along with other historical documents, are said to indicate a conversion of the Khazar nobility to Judaism.A minority of scholars, among them Moshe Gil and Shaul Stampfer have challenged the documents claim to represent a real …

Kizlyar (Russian: Кизля́р; Avar: Гъизляр; Kumyk: Къызлар, Qızlar) is a town in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the border with the Chechen Republic in the delta of the Terek River 221 kilometers (137 mi) northwest of Makhachkala, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 48,984.