Sheleg minted in Kabir, Khazar Khaganate since ca 5th c AD
Yarmaq was name for Khazar Khaganate currency. The term for silver coin was sheleg (it might have direct connection to the term sheqel). The currency was mentioned in the Tale of Bygone Years as tribute money for Vyatichi and other Khazar subjects Old East Slavic: щеляг, romanized: schelyag. Shelegs were probably minted in Kabir (Moxel, client state of Khazar Kaghanate) since approximately 5th c AD.[1] The term for the gold coin might be oka, as they were minted in the same place and called oka (Moksha: ока, romanized: oka, lit. 'gold')[2]
sanakirja. Turku: University of Turku. p. 54. ISBN 951-29-1244-9. Khazarcoinage Kabir coinage centre Mokshin 2012 Herrala & Feoktistov 1998 p.54 Serebrenikov...
The Khazars (/ˈxɑːzɑːrz/) were a nomadic Turkic people that, in the late 6th-century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern...
led an expedition against the Khazars around 1030. The Khazars reportedly killed 10,000 of his soldiers. Since the Khazar Khaganate had been destroyed...
their early history, until the tenth century, under the suzerainty of the Khazar Khaganate. No medieval records from Volga Bulgaria itself have survived;...
also resumed, with renewed annual raids against the Byzantines and the Khazars in Transcaucasia. The final son of Abd al-Malik to become caliph was Hisham...
peninsula, in present-day Krasnodar Krai, Russia, roughly opposite Kerch. The Khazar fortress of Tamantarkhan (from which the Byzantine name for the city, Tamatarcha...
the late 7th century, however, an Avar-Slavic alliance in the west, and Khazars in the east, defeated the Bulgars, and Great Bulgaria disintegrated. Successor...
and Bosporan king. Like Roman coinage, Bosporan coinage became increasingly debased during the 3rd century. The coinage makes their lineages fairly clear...
offered a bribe by Tiberius to kill his brother-in-law, and dispatched two Khazar officials, Papatzys and Balgitzin, to do the deed. Warned by his wife, Justinian...
religious inscriptions in Arabic instead. This became the model of Islamic coinage for several hundred years. The Umayyads controlled the vast territory of...
ended with another truce in 1000. He also conducted a campaign against the Khazar Khaganate that gained the Byzantine Empire part of Crimea and a series of...
Press. p. 91 The World of the Khazars: New Perspectives. Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 1999 International Khazar Colloquium. (2007). Nederländerna:...
goods. On their return, the northern raiders were attacked and defeated by Khazar Muslims in the Volga Delta, and those who escaped were killed by the local...
the polity of Old Great Bulgaria c. 630–635, which was defeated by the Khazar Empire in 668 AD. In 681, Khan Asparukh conquered Scythia Minor, opening...
revenge. Most of Roman Crimea fell under Khazar overlordship in the late 7th century. In the mid-8th century, the Khazars put down the rebellious Crimean Goths...
It was the administrative center of Murunza and one of the centres of coinage. In 1237 century the city was taken over by Batu Khan and became the capital...
740. His military efforts were supplemented by his alliances with the Khazars and the Georgians. Leo undertook a set of civil reforms including the abolition...
single series of coins, issued while he was besieged in Cologne in 260. Coinage issued after his death honor him as caesar; probably because Gallienus...
He is said to have received baptism on his deathbed. He also reformed coinage through the introduction of the gold solidus, and initiated a large-scale...
rights over various items (Rurikid symbols). Very likely, these are of Khazar (Turkic) origin and have been adopted along with the expansion of the Rus...
was the son and successor of Khosrow I (r. 531–579) and his mother was a Khazar princess. During his reign, Hormizd IV had the high aristocracy and Zoroastrian...
ancestors of the Khazars. Thus Muslim scholars associated the Khazars with Dhul-Qarnayn just as the Christian legends associated the Khazars with Alexander...
The title implied the greatest prestige. Augustae could issue their own coinage, wear imperial regalia, and rule their own courts. Wife of Claudius, Agrippina...
and the Khazar Khanate, the latter two very often acting as allies against Sassanid Persia. In 628, during the Third Perso-Turkic War, the Khazars invaded...
Georgian-Sasanian force when the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, in alliance with the Khazars (see Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628). In 627, the Byzantine Empire and...
to circa 700 AD. After this transitory period, Turk Shahi coinage adopted the Sasanian coinage style, and added a trilingual legend in Greco-Bactrian, Pahlavi...
Theophanes the Confessor and others, Chersonesus was the residence of a Khazar governor (tudun) in the late 7th century. Between approximately 705 and...
History Through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-century Ikhshidid Coinage. American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 76–77. ISBN 978-977-424-930-3. Holt...
Sarai, commanding the lower stretch of the Volga River, on the site of the Khazar capital of Atil. Shortly before that, the younger brother of Batu and Orda...
At the end of the 9th century, a new trade route developed, bypassing Khazar territory and connecting Central Asia with Europe across Volga Bulgaria;...