Chorpan Tarkhan
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Chorpan Tarkhan is recorded in Armenian sources as a Khazar general who invaded and devastated Armenia around the year 630 CE. He was most likely an officer in the army of the Western Gokturks and may have been part of Ziebel's (or Tong Yabghu Khagan's) campaign against Persia in alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
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- Peter B. Golden. Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars. Budapest: Akademia Kiado, 1980.