Territorial change of Khazars (Khazaria)

“Khazars”(Khazaria) — appears in this map’s data from AD 630 to 979. Its territory was largest in AD 763 – 767, at ≈ 803 thousand km².

Territory by period

Outline at its largest extent

Outline of the territory in AD 763 – 767 (map drawing). Neighbouring countries are not drawn.

Area and rank by frame

For each frame in which borders change: this country’s territory and its rank by area among the countries that have territory in that frame.

Its highest rank was in AD 763: number 74 of 6.

Neighbouring countries

In order of the number of frames in which they share a border (a parent state, its colonies and other names of the same country are counted as one group).

• Byzantine Empire — 55 frames
• First Bulgarian Empire — 51 frames
• Georgia — 51 frames
• Kimak–Kipchak confederation — 44 frames
• Oghuz Khagan — 44 frames
• Abbasid Caliphate — 33 frames
• Shirvan — 27 frames
• Lazica — 24 frames
• Kievan Rus' — 16 frames
• Hungarians — 16 frames
• Umayyad Caliphate — 11 frames
• Old Great Bulgaria — 10 frames
• Principality of Iberia — 7 frames
• Sajid dynasty — 6 frames
• Hamdanid dynasty — 5 frames
• Sasanian Empire — 3 frames
• Rashidun Caliphate — 3 frames
• Balasagan — 3 frames
• Byzantine Empire — 1 frames

Territory exchanged with

Computed from changes in territory between frames (only changes of about 20,000 km² or more are counted; these are not actual routes of advance). Top 5 by area.

Wikipedia summary

The Khazars (/kəˈzɑːrz/) were a semi-nomadic Turkic people who established a major commercial empire in the late 6th century CE spanning the south of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, and western Kazakhstan.

Wikipedia (English) “Khazars”, introduction (first sentences) · text under CC BY-SA 4.0 · read more on Wikipedia

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