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Member of a people of Turkish origin from the
lower Volga basin of Central Asia, who formed
a commercial link and a buffer state in the
7th-12th centuries between the Arabs and the
Byzantine empire, and later between the
Byzantine empire and the Baltic. Their ruler
adopted Judaism as the state religion in the
8th century. In the 11th century, Slavonic
and nomadic Turks invaded, and by the 13th
century the Khazar empire had been absorbed
by its neighbours. It has been suggested that
the Khazars were the ancestors of some of the
Jews living in E European countries and now
throughout the world.