Battle of Balanjar (730s)
| Battle of Balanjarl |
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| Part of the Second Arab–Khazar War |
Khazar warrior with captive |
| Date | c. 732 CE |
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| Location | Balanjar |
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| Result |
Arab Muslim victory |
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| Belligerents |
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Khazar Khaganate |
Umayyad Caliphate |
| Commanders and leaders |
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Unknown |
Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik |
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| Casualties and losses |
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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.
See also
- Battle of Balanjar (disambiguation)
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.
