Irbis (Khazar)
The Pontic steppe in ca. 650, showing the early territory of the Khazars and their neighbors.
Irbis (fl. 650 or 652) was according to a number of Russian sources the founder of the Khazar Khaganate.[1] The Khazars traced their origin to the Turkic Ashina clan in modern Mongolia.[2]
References[]
- ^ Kevin Alan Brook (1999). The Jews of Khazaria. Jason Aronson. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-7657-6032-6.
- ^ Timothy Reuter; Rosamond McKitterick (1995). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024. Cambridge University Press. p. 500. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.
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