A Karaim of Trakai talking in Karaim language in a documentary says We, descendants of Khazars of Kipchaks, came to Lithuania from Crimea long time ago.

Coupled with the military barrier presented by the Khazars themselves, this protected Europe from more direct and intensive assaults by the forces of Islam.

Khazars were judged according to Tōra ( orders of the Khagan ; coming from the root Tōr meaning customs ; unwritten law of people in Old Turkic ) ( Modern Turkish: Töre ), while the other tribes were judged according to their own laws.

By welcoming educated and worldly Jews from both Christian Europe and the Islamic Middle East, Khazars rapidly absorbed many of the arts and technologies of civilization.

Many artifacts from the Khazars, exhibiting their artistic and industrial talents, have survived to the present day.

Golden, considered the Khazars to be connected with a Uyghur or Tiele confederation tribe called He ' san in Chinese sources from the 7th-century ( Suishu, 84 ).

Within a few years, the Dulo " Ten Tribe " Confederation in Atyrau Province allied themselves to the Ashinas forming the Western part of the Gokturk Empire and were able to snatch Phanagoria back from the Avars renaming the Sabirs as Khazars under the rule of Kaghan Kazarig.

However, the Dulo clans Ten Tribes soon seceded from the Gokturks to become the Western Turkic Kaghanate which thrived until 630s AD when they became the Khazars.

* Byzantine Empire: The deposed Byzantine emperor Justinian II flees from his exile at Cherson to the Khazars.

Then, in 582, Onogur Bulgars settled in southeastern Bessarabia and northern Dobruja, from which they moved to Moesia Inferior ( allegedly under pressure from the Khazars ), and formed the nascent region of Bulgaria.

Pressure from the Khazars led to the subjugation of Great Bulgaria in the second half of the 7th century.

In the 7th century, the Turkic Khazars took control of Bospor, and the city was named Karcha from Turkic " karşı " meaning ' opposite, facing.

What mainly issued from Muslim Central Asia was the trade of the Samanids, which resumed the northwestern road leading to the Khazars and the Urals and the northeastern one toward the nearby Turkic tribes.

Conversely, Eldad ha-Dani argued that the tribe of Simeon had become quite powerful, taking tribute from 25 other kingdoms, some of which were Arabians ; though he names their location, surviving versions of his manuscripts differ as to whether it was the land of the Khazars or of the Chaldeans-Chaldeans would be an anachronism, though it could possibly refer to Buyid Dynasty Persia.

He escaped from Cherson and received help from Ibusirus Gliabanus ( Busir Glavan ), the khagan of the Khazars, who received him enthusiastically and gave him his sister as a bride.

Ibn Fadlan was sent from Baghdad in 921 to serve as the secretary to an ambassador from the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir to the iltäbär ( vassal-king under the Khazars ) of the Volga Bulgaria, Almış.

Christian Identity asserts in addition that these ( White European ) Israelites are still God's Chosen People, that Jesus was an Israelite of the tribe of Judah, and that modern Jews are not at all Israelites nor Hebrews, but are instead descended from people with Turco-Mongolian blood, or Khazars, or are descendants of the biblical Esau-Edom, who traded his birthright for a bowl of red stew ( Genesis 25: 29 – 34 ).

According to Peter Golden, " steady pressure from Turkic nomads was typical of the Khazar era, although there are no unambiguous references to permanent settlements ", while Vladimir Minorsky stated that, in Islamic times, " the town of Qabala lying between Sharvan and Shakki was a place where Khazars were probably settled ".

Meanwhile, in 704, Justinian II escaped from exile in Cherson, fleeing to the court of the khagan of the Khazars, Busir Glavan.

By the 700s they largely vanish from the historical record ; probably being assimilated into the Khazars and Bulgars.

This theory refers to the belief among some that Chechens are primarily descended from Khazars or Jews ( specifically probably Mountain Jews, later supplemented by Russian Jews fleeing the pogroms ); or to a much more credible ( and moderate ) version of the theory, that Chechens are partially descended from Jews, and that the importance of this root of descent is no more than the influence of other peoples the Chechens absorbed throughout history ( Georgians, Kypchaks, Scythians, etc.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

And although these insights into the nature of art may be in themselves insufficient for a thoroughgoing philosophy of art, their peculiar authenticity in this day and age requires that they be taken seriously and gives promise that from their very substance, new and valid chapters in the philosophy of art may be written.

It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

These peoples, desperately hoping to lift themselves to decent levels of living must not, by our neglect, be forced to seek help from, and finally become virtual satellites of, those who proclaim their hostility to freedom.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud, through intellectual toughness, perception, through experience in fact, have obviously liberated themselves from any sentimental Krim self-indulgence they might have been tempted to.

His suggestion that the prestige colleges be made the training institutions for medical, law and graduate schools will run into strong opposition from these colleges themselves -- even though what he is recommending is already taking shape as a trend.

Southern whites themselves are realizing that they had been wrong in using violence to try to stop Negroes from claiming equal rights.

It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.

This financial assistance from the state has become necessary because the local governments themselves found the property tax, or at least at the rates then existing, insufficient for their requirements.

We should hope that peace corps projects will be truly international and that our citizens will find themselves working alongside citizens of the host country and also volunteers from other lands.

Then during washing, the greasy soil rolls back at the edges so that emulsified droplets can disengage themselves from the sorbed oil mass, with the aid of mechanical action, and enter the aqueous phase.

They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.

Rather, it is typical of the thousands of quacks who use phony therapeutic devices to fatten themselves on the miseries of hundreds of thousands of Americans by robbing them of millions of dollars and luring them away from legitimate, ethical medical treatment of serious diseases.

Not all, as a matter of fact, consider themselves `` mediums '' in the sense of receiving messages from the deceased.

And still another witness, one who had crawled out from under a heap of corpses, had to tell how the victims had been forced to lay themselves head to foot one on top of the other before being shot.

A Massachusetts soldier, who seems to have been a Civil War version of Bill Mauldin, wrote: `` the officers consider themselves as made of a different material from the low fellows in the ranks.

They were not capable of supporting themselves off the plantation, and Louisiana law required their removal from the state.

Some of them came from people who identified themselves.

They can hardly restrain themselves from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been in power, would have made `` amateurish and monumental blunders '' in Cuba.

The Texans made themselves a comforting break on the opening kickoff when Denver's Al Carmichael was jarred loose from the ball when Dave Grayson, the speedy halfback, hit him and Guard Al Reynolds claimed it for Dallas.

The statement also points to a classic paradox: The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another.

Some of the New York Philharmonic musicians who live in the suburbs spent yesterday morning digging themselves free from snow.

They sit alone in their rooms and try to paint, and only succeed in isolating themselves still farther from life.