Not many people know that.
Here appear occasional jottings of my random musings. Profound or jejune, they reveal the contours of my mental universe, with world history, intellectual history, civilizations, philosophy, religion, society, knowledge, and books as some major themes. Since May 2011, this blog has been exclusively focused on Singapore. All my other reflections are now posted in "Notes from Noosphere" (see link under "Miscellany" on the right margin).
Monday, November 22, 2010
Khazaria: a Turkic Judaic empire
A remarkable, but obscure (from my perspective) fact of history: The royalty and nobility of Khazaria (see map below), an empire of the Turkic speaking Khazars from the 7th to the 10th centuries, converted to Judaism in the 8th century.
Not many people know that.
(map source)
Not many people know that.
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