Battle of Balanjar (730s)

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Battle of Marj Ardebil

Khazar warrior with captive, based on reconstruction by Norman Finkelshteyn

Date	c. 732 CE
Location	Balanjar
Result	Arab victory

Combatants

Khazar Khaganate

Umayyad Caliphate

Commanders

Unknown

Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik

Strength

Casualties

Khazar-Arab Wars
1st Balanjar – 2nd Balanjar – Marj Ardebil – Mosul – 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 sacked the town, advancing on towards Samandar.

[edit] See also

Battle of Balanjar

[edit] 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.

	Byzantium \| Abbasids \| Kipchaks \| Meshchera \| Pax Khazarica \| Radhanites \| Rus \| Volga trade route \| Dnieper trade route
	Khazaria (c) (t)
	Khazar rulers: Irbis \| Busir \| Bihar \| Parsbit \| Zachariah \| Bulan \| Obadiah \| Benjamin \| Aaron II \| Joseph \| David \| George
	Other personalities: Alp Iluetuer \| Alp Tarkhan \| Balgatzin \| Barjik \| Hazer Tarkhan \| HLGW \| John of Gothia \| Lebedias \| Leo IV \| Papatzys \| Pesakh \| Ras Tarkhan \| Serach \| Sfengus \| Sviatoslav \| Tzitzak \| Yitzhak ha-Sangari
	Places: Atil \| Balanjar \| Bar \| Chersonesos \| Daghestan \| Golden Hills \| Güsliyev\| Kavkaz \| Kerch \| Kerem \| Khamlij \| Khazaran \| Levedia \| Saltovo-Mayaki \| Samandar \| Kazarki \| Sambalut \| Sambat \| Samiran \| Saqsin \| Sarkel \| 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
	Other: Khazar Correspondence \| Khazar language \| Kuzari \| Kievian Letter \| Mandgelis Document \| Red Jews \| Schechter Letter \| In fiction

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	Byzantium \| Abbasids \| Kipchaks \| Meshchera \| Pax Khazarica \| Radhanites \| Rus \| Volga trade route \| Dnieper trade route
	Khazaria (c) (t)
	Khazar rulers: Irbis \| Busir \| Bihar \| Parsbit \| Zachariah \| Bulan \| Obadiah \| Benjamin \| Aaron II \| Joseph \| David \| George
	Other personalities: Alp Iluetuer \| Alp Tarkhan \| Balgatzin \| Barjik \| Hazer Tarkhan \| HLGW \| John of Gothia \| Lebedias \| Leo IV \| Papatzys \| Pesakh \| Ras Tarkhan \| Serach \| Sfengus \| Sviatoslav \| Tzitzak \| Yitzhak ha-Sangari
	Places: Atil \| Balanjar \| Bar \| Chersonesos \| Daghestan \| Golden Hills \| Güsliyev\| Kavkaz \| Kerch \| Kerem \| Khamlij \| Khazaran \| Levedia \| Saltovo-Mayaki \| Samandar \| Kazarki \| Sambalut \| Sambat \| Samiran \| Saqsin \| Sarkel \| 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
	Other: Khazar Correspondence \| Khazar language \| Kuzari \| Kievian Letter \| Mandgelis Document \| Red Jews \| Schechter Letter \| In fiction

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