khazaria
/kəˈzɑːɹi.ə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A polity, established in medieval Eurasia by Khazars, that occupied much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus, parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.
Example Sentences
- "2007, Vladimir Ja. Petrukhin, Khazaria and Rus': An Examination of Their Historical Relations, Peter B. Golden, Haggai Ben-Shammai, András Róna-Tas (editors), The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives, Brill Publishers, page 245, An impartial evaluation of the relations between Khazaria and Rus' (or Eastern Slavs) within the limits imposed by official Soviet historiography was rather uncommon: the role of Khazaria was mainly pictured as an obstacle in the highly progressive processes of the development of the Russian state."
- "Jews continued to migrate to Khazaria from the Muslim and Byzantine lands circa 943 because they were still being forcefully converted to Christianity by Romanus, according to al-Masudi."
- "In 860, Byzantine Emperor Michael III Amorian and the Ecumenical Patriarch and Constantinopolitan Bishop Photios I who was Cyril's teacher dispatched the brothers on a missionary expedition to Khazaria, the Turkic Khazar Khaganate north of Persia to prevent the expansion of Judaism there."
Etymology
From Khazar + -ia.