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Sarkel (or
Šarkel,
literally "white house" in the
Khazar language) was a
large limestone-and-brick
fortress in what is now
Rostov Oblast of Russia, on...
- was
sufficiently notable to be
fortified for over two
thousand years. The
Sarkel fortress on the left bank of the
lower Don was the main
control of this...
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Khazar fortresses like
Sarkel and Tamatarkha, and
reached as far as the
Caucasian K****ogians/Circ****ians and then back to Kiev.
Sarkel fell in 965, with the...
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Khazar city of
Sarkel around 965,
possibly sacking (but not occupying) the
Khazar city of
Kerch on the
Crimea as well. At
Sarkel he
established a Rus'...
- Belarusian) may
refer to:
Belaya Vezha, Russia– the
Khazar fortress of
Sarkel (White Tower) on the Don River,
Russia Belaya Vezha,
Belarus – the tower...
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allied prin****lities,
attacked Sarkel, a city of the Khazars, in the 900s. The
Khazar army was
defeated and the
Sarkel prince and his
surviving army were...
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European sources. The
casus belli was the
construction of the
fortress Sarkel by
Byzantine engineers,
restricting the Rus'
trade route along the Don River...
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Modern day "Axe of Perun"
amulet based on a
finding from the
Khazar fortress Sarkel (Саркел),
excavated in the 1930s. The
Kievan Rus'
controlled the fortress...
- Sea commerce. The
Byzantines also
helped the
Khazars build a
fortress at
Sarkel on the Don
river to
protect their northwest frontier against incursions...
- then into the Sea of Azov, then up the Don
River past the
Khazar city of
Sarkel, and then by a
portage reached the Volga,
which led them into the Caspian...
