KHAZARS
A Forgotten Turkish Nation in Europe
(Scripta Minora, vol iv, 2020)
“Within clear historical time — between the eighth and the eleventh centuries — we meet with, in what is at present southern Russia, one of the most extraordinary kingdoms, fully provable, from Arab and Byzantine writers, to have been founded and upheld by a Turkish people. It was a Jewish-Mahometan kingdom of no mean culture, marked by justice and religious toleration. It went down in the turmoil of attacks made upon it by the Warangian chieftains of Russia, by Byzantine arms, and by rough nomadic tribes.”
--Karl Blind, Khazars: A Forgotten Turkish Nation in Europe
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