The Kievan state destroyed the Khazar Empire shortly before the turn of the first millennium.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Multiple sources report that Sviatoslav of Kiev (Kievan Rus') destroyed Khazar imperial power, sacking Sarkel in 965 and the capital Atil around 968-969, so the core assertion holds.
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… in, um, starting really the turn of the first millennium comes from the conversion of the Caucasus peoples in the Kazar Empire to Talmudic Judaism as a way to differentiate themselves from the Orthodox on the one hand and the, um, Muslims on the other, and it was very much a trading, slave-dealing, merchant economy that was finally smashed by the Kievan state not too long before the turn of the first millennium. That's the group of people that flooded Europe. They don't speak Hebrew, they speak Yiddish, um, which is an amalgam of Turkish and several other, you know, German, some Slavic words in there. …
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Supports. Encyclopaedia Iranica reports that the Old Rus' chronicle's Svyatoslav destroyed Khazaria in 965 and took the city of Bela Vezha (Sarkel).[1]
Supports. Wikipedia and Britannica state that Sviatoslav I of Kiev conquered the Khazar capital Atil by 969 and crushed Khazar power in the 960s.[2][3]
Supports. Academic and encyclopedic compilations date the Khazar fortresses of Sarkel and Tamatarkha falling to the Rus' in 965, with Atil following around 968-969.[4][5]
Context. Sources date the destruction to 965-969, roughly three decades before the year 1000; 'shortly before' is a loose characterization of that timing, which no source disputes.[1][2][6]
Context. Some sources describe the Khazar state as weakened by Pechenegs, Arab trade shifts and Oghuz attacks before the Rus' campaigns, so Kievan Rus' was the decisive but not sole cause.[2][6]
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- 1KHAZARS - Encyclopaedia Iranicairanicaonline.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 2Khazars - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 3Khazar | Origin, History, Religion, & Factsbritannica.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Khazars - Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopediasen-academic.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Altruistic World Online Librarysurvivorbb.rapeutation.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6Khazars and Khazaria: History, Religion, Map and Falltheworldthroughtime.com · not rated · cited for: context
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