Re: Djilas

--- tolgs001 <george_st@...> wrote:

> >GK: Called "Khwalis" in the Old Ukrainian
> >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".
>
> Oh, so this is why some Hungarian authors (rather
> "backbenchers") assert that Kalizes were Jewish!
> (BTW, others, colleagues of them insist that Kalizes
> were... Muslims. :-))

****GK: Do any of them suggest that the Kabars might
also have been Jewish? Not necessarily "rabbinical"
but professing some form of Judaism. One of the
quarters of pre-Mongol era Kyiv was called the
"Kopyriv kinets" ("the quarter of the Kabars"). It was
basically the Jewish section of the city, though
Christians also lived there. The Jews shared the fate
of their co-citizens when Batu Khan destroyed the city
in December 1240.*****



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