Battle of Balanjar (730s)

Battle of Balanjarl

Date	c. 732 CE
Location	Balanjar
Result	Arab Muslim victory

Belligerents

Khazar Khaganate

Umayyad Caliphate

Commanders and leaders

Unknown

Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik

Strength

Casualties and losses

Arab–Khazar wars

1st Balanjar 2nd Balanjar Marj Ardabil Bajarwan Armenia 3rd Balanjar Atil Azerbaijan

The Battle of Balanjar was fought around 732 near the Khazar city of Balanjar. The Umayyad army, commanded by the prince Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, was victorious and advanced on towards Samandar.

References

Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006.
Douglas M. Dunlop. The History of the Jewish Khazars, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954.
Peter B. Golden. Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars. Budapest: Akademia Kiado, 1980.
Norman Golb and Omeljan Pritsak, Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.

Khazaria

Byzantium Bulgaria Abbasids Arab–Khazar wars Kipchaks Meshchera Pax Khazarica Radhanites Rus Volga trade route Dnieper trade route

Khazar rulers	Irbis Busir Bihar Parsbit Zachariah Bulan Obadiah Benjamin Aaron II Joseph David George

Other figures	Alp Iluetuer Alp Tarkhan Balgatzin Barjik Hazer Tarkhan HLGW John of Gothia Leo IV Papatzys Pesakh Ras Tarkhan Serach Sfengus Sviatoslav Theodora Tzitzak Yitzhak ha-Sangari

Places	Atil Azaq Balanjar Bar Chersonesos Daghestan Güsliyev Golden Hills Kaffa Kavkaz Kazarki Kerch Kerem Khamlij Khazaran Khumar Levedia Saltovo-Mayaki Samandar Sambalut Sambat Samiran Samosdelka Saqsin Sarkel Semikarakorsk Sudak Taman Tamatarkha

Tributaries	Abkhazians Alani Arsiya Baranjars Barsils Bashkirs Burtas Crimean Goths East Slavs Huns Juhuri Kabars Kassogs Lazica Lezgins Magyars Mordvins Oghuz Onogurs Pechenegs Sabirs Sarir Volga Bulgars

Scholars	Mikhail Artamonov Vasili Barthold D.M. Dunlop Norman Golb Peter B. Golden Lev Gumilev Alexander Harkavy Thomas S. Noonan Svetlana Pletneva Omeljan Pritsak

Legacy	Crimean Karaites Khazar Correspondence Khazar language Khazar theory The Thirteenth Tribe Khazars in fiction Kuzari Kievian Letter Mandgelis Document Red Jews Schechter Letter Subbotniks

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Battle of Balanjar (730s)

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