The Khazars opposed the Arab advance into the Caucasus Mountains and were instrumental in containing a Muslim push toward eastern Europe. He compared their role in eastern Europe to that of the French knights who defeated Arab forces at the Battle of Tours in France in 732. The study of the Khazar empire was discouraged in the Soviet Union. The dictator Josef Stalin, in particular, detested the idea that a Jewish empire had come before Russia's own. He ordered references to Khazar history removed from textbooks because they "disproved his theory of Russian statehood," Satanovsky said. What does Satan say?
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The Khazars are the most hilarious steppe people I ever read about. These badasses whupped ass and then converted to Judaeism of all things.
I read about them in Riasanovsky's History of Russia and made people in New Orleans coffee shops nervous since I was laughing so hard at a book about millenia of tragedy.
While I was there, this drunk guy I knew was collecting comic books. Sure enough in Peoria Effect fashion, Number 1 of a new comic book came out and it was called Khazar!
What fun to think of Jews going berserker way back then on the steppes, carrying torahs and not lighting fires on saturdays.
Of course, the Khazars ended up in Romania.
And look where Iberia was, just before that.
They were badasses, no doubt about it. Turkic creeps about like Mongols, I guess.
You still didn't tell me what the heck the Iberians were doing around Georgia at the time. Looking to pick up a fight with the Rooskies, toe to toe?
I guess the Spaniards are simply the Georgians of the West. Powww!!
Sorry, AI. Ididn't and still don't understand the question. I saw the map, but don't see any damned Iberians.
Just look at Georgia -- even Sarah Palin knows where there is!
Interesting! Must be a weird coincidence or it's related to the French word ivre. Hey, check your email.
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