Khazarn.

1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks ii. i. 63 The horde of Chozars, as this Turkish tribe was called,..transported their tents..into Georgia.

1854 R. G. Latham Native Races Russ. Empire x. 143 The Khazars poured themselves over eastern Europe in the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th centuries.

1863 C. L. Brace Races Old World xi. 86 Another Turanian tribe are the Khazars, probably Finnic, though with Turkic mixture. They appear in Europe between the seventh and tenth century,..between the Caspian and the Dnieper. They are followed by the Pechenegs, a Turkic tribe, who occupy Bessarabia, Cherson, and part of Taurida, in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

1878 R. G. Latham Russian & Turk viii. 210 The Khazars seem to play the same part in the history of Eastern Russia that the Avars played in that of Southern Bavaria... We meet the term Chazaria as the land of the Khazars.

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 60/1 Merchants from every nation found protection..in the Khazar cities.

1903 Jewish Encycl. IV. 1/1 The Chazars..established themselves in the territory bounded by the Sea of Azov, the Don and the lower Volga.

1930 C. A. Macartney Magyars 62 From a short time after the arrival of the Khazars, the Cuban Bulgars disappear from history.

1934 A. G. Chater tr. Undset Stages on Road i. 29 The Khozars of the Crimea..were Tartars who had been converted to Judaism and were ruled by a Jewish king.

1952 E. Hyams Soil & Civilization 171 The Jewish religion was adopted by the Chazar princes.

1965 H. M. Smyser in J. B. Bessinger & R. P. Creed Medieval & Linguistic Stud. 93 The Bulgars and..the so-called Jewish Khazars, about whom Ibn Faḍlān learned from his Bulgar hosts.