From: tolgs001
Message: 58059
Date: 2008-04-26
>****GK: Called "Khwalis" in the Old UkrainianOh, so this is why some Hungarian authors (rather
>chronicle. The Caspian Sea was the "Khwalis Sea".
>There is an additional complication (mentioned by
>Pritsak in his "Khazarian Hebrew documents of the
>tenth century"(pp.149-150, citing Ibn-Hauqal c. 977
>CE): "Khwalis" was also the name of the western part
>of the Khazar capital on the Volga(a "twin" city),
>inhabited by "Kalis-Khazars".****