History Answer - Where are the Khazars Now?

The Khazars were a semi-nomadic Turkic people with a confederation of Turkic-speaking tribes that in the late 6th century CE established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia. The Khazars created what for its duration was the most powerful polity to emerge from the break-up of the Western Turkic Khaganate. Astride a major artery of commerce between Eastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, Khazaria became one of the foremost trading emporia of the medieval world, commanding the western marches of the Silk Road and playing a key commercial role as a crossroad between China, the Middle East and Kievan Rus’. For some three centuries (c. 650–965) the Khazars dominated the vast area extending from the Volga-Don steppes to the eastern Crimea and the northern Caucasus. Between 965 and 969, the empire began to descend. The Kievan Rus’ ruler Sviatoslav I of Kiev conquered the capital Atil and destroyed the Khazar state. But did the Khazar kingdom wholly succumb to Kievan Rus campaign along with its people? That the question we tried to answer in this video. Music: It Is Lost by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license () Source: Artist: