Battle of Balanjar (730s)
Battle of Balanjarl | |||||||
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Part of the Second Arab–Khazar War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Khazar Khaganate | Umayyad Caliphate | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Unknown | Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik | ||||||
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The Battle of Balanjar was fought around 732 near the Khazar city of Balanjar. The Umayyad army, commanded by the prince Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, was victorious and advanced on towards Samandar.
See also
References
- Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006.
- Douglas M. Dunlop. The History of the Jewish Khazars, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954.
- Peter B. Golden. Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars. Budapest: Akademia Kiado, 1980.
- Norman Golb and Omeljan Pritsak, Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.
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