[gothic-l] Re: Greutung, Therving; Khazars

[Yair Davidiy]

At 15:33 30/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:

>--- Le Bateman <LeBateman at NetZero.Net> wrote:
> > Can someone tell who the Khazars were. Were  they
> > possibly Semetic.
> > Le
>
>*****GK: The Khazars were Turkic for the most part,
>though they also had Iranic and probably Ugrian
>symbiots. Their empire emerged in the mid-7th c. and
>lasted for over 300 years. Your feeling that they may
>have been Semitic is probably due to the fact that
>their leaders (and some though not all ordinary
>folk)converted to Judaism in the 8th century. The
>capital of their state was at Itil on the Volga. At
>the height of their power (ca. 800) they controlled
>(directly or through allied vassals) most of European
>Russia and much of Ukraine. The Crimean Goths were
>their subjects also.*****

Avraham Pollack wrote an authoritative work (in Hebrew) on the Khazars in
which he claims
the basic stock of the Khazars was Gothic.
Even so, the highest probability is that they were of Hebraic origin.
There is no proof that they were Turkish other than the fact that they
reached the height of their power
at a time when Turkish cultural influence was all-pervasive in the region.
Their presence was recorded in southern Russia centuries before the Turks
were even heard of.



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