The Thirteenth Empire: The Rise, Fall, and Erasure of the Khazar Khaganate

The Thirteenth Empire: The Rise, Fall, and Erasure of the Khazar Khaganate

For three centuries, the Khazar Khaganate stood at the hinge of the medieval world — a Jewish-ruled steppe empire that stopped the Arab conquests at the Caucasian passes, organized one of history's most important commercial arteries, and governed a polyethnic population through institutional arrangements the surrounding civilizations were ideologically incapable of replicating. Yet the Khazars were so thoroughly erase...