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Peak of the Khazar Khaganate

Type Event Region East European steppe Time 701–800

Around the 8th century, the Khazar Khaganate controlled the North Caucasus, lower Volga, Don steppe, and northern Crimea, becoming a Eurasian steppe …

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  1. 701–750Lower Volga · Volga steppeThe Khazar Khaganate consolidated control over the North Caucasus, the northern Crimean coast, and the Don steppe, commanding the northern trade route between Byzantium and the Abbasid Caliphate, collecting tolls, and acting as a political intermediary.
  2. 740–800Khazar Khaganate core territories · North CaucasusAccording to Arabic and Jewish sources, the Khazar khagans and nobility may have converted to Judaism around this time, forming a distinctive steppe-nomad–Jewish cultural hybrid; the khanate maintained its independence amid Eurasian political rivalries.

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