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خروج الخزر على أرمينية

خروج الخزر على أرمينية

c. 798 CE · 183 AH

In year 183 the Khazars broke upon Armenia, slaughtering and carrying captive more than a hundred thousand souls — a calamity upon Islam the like of which had not been heard before 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Persia & Central Asia
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790800810 c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate

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In 183 AH the Khazars rose against Armenia, attacked the Muslims, shed blood and took more than a hundred thousand captive. 2

Al-Suyuti describes what happened as a great matter of which no like had been heard before. 2

The Gregorian date (around 798 CE) is derived.

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 461
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.461
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islam.museum contributors. “خروج الخزر على أرمينية”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/khazar-armenia-raid/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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