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The Khazar alliance with the Byzantine empire began to collapse in the early 10th century. Byzantine and Khazar forces may have clashed in the Crimea, and by the 940s emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus was speculating in De Administrando Imperio about ways in which the Khazars could be isolated and attacked. The Byzantines during the same ...
The next objective of the Turkic-Byzantine offensive was the Kingdom of Iberia, whose ruler Stephanus was a tributary to Khosrow II. In the words of Movses Kagankatvatsi, the Khazars "encircled and besieged the famous and great sybaritic trade city of Tbilisi," [11] whereupon they were joined by Emperor Heraclius with his mighty army.
Leo IV the Khazar (Greek: Λέων ὁ Χάζαρος, Leōn ho Khazaros; 25 January 750 – 8 September 780) was Byzantine emperor from 775 to 780 AD. He was born to Emperor Constantine V and Empress Tzitzak in 750. He was elevated to co-emperor in the next year, in 751, and married to Irene of Athens in 769.
Increasingly thereafter the Syro-Jaziran army, that provided the manpower for the raids against Byzantium, was diverted in the hard and fruitless wars against the Khazars in the Caucasus: the Khazars inflicted a heavy defeat on the Muslims in 730, and a Byzantine–Khazar alliance was sealed by the marriage of Leo III's son and heir Constantine ...
Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik (Arabic: مسلمة بن عبد الملك, romanized: Maslama ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, in Greek sources Μασαλμᾶς, Masalmas; fl. 705 – 24 December 738) was an Umayyad prince and one of the most prominent Arab generals of the early decades of the 8th century, leading several campaigns against the Byzantine Empire and the Khazar Khaganate.
During the siege of Constantinople, Heraclius formed an alliance with people Byzantine sources called the "Khazars", under Tong Yabghu Qaghan, now generally identified as the Western Turkic Khaganate of the Göktürks, [1] plying him with wondrous gifts and the promise of marriage to the porphyrogenita Eudoxia Epiphania.
Khazar Jews are known to have lived in Kiev [14] [15] and even to have emigrated to the Byzantine Empire [16] and studied Judaism in Spain. [17] According to some sources the majority may have gone to Hungary , [ 18 ] Poland and the Crimea , mingling with Jews in those areas and with later waves of Jewish immigrants from the west.
The Arab–Byzantine wars or Muslim–Byzantine wars were a series of wars from the 7th to 11th centuries between multiple Arab dynasties and the Byzantine Empire. The Muslim Arab Caliphates conquered large parts of the Christian Byzantine empire and unsuccessfully attacked the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. The frontier between the ...