Khazar fortress

Cities of Khazaria. Kromos Estatium
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     The khazar cities here include not only those cities that were built by the khazar architects, but also those that were built before the arrival of the khazars, were used by the khazars for their needs and tasks for a long time.
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Khazar fortress **
     Also the Mokhnach settlement.
     This city is known only from archeology, myths, legends and traditions, as well as from the results of informographic analysis.
     The city with a fortress on the hillfort at the village of Makhnach south of Kharkiv, on the right bank of the Seversky Donets, belonged to the saltov-mayatsk culture, the main carriers of which were the saviro-bulgars, also called khazars.
     In the 7th century, after the establishment of the Khazarus state's rule over this area, this settlement received the status of a city, since a fortress appeared in it, and accompanying settlements with workshops of gunsmiths, potters, and bone cutters. Behind the townships were farmlands with villages.
     Before the khazars, there was a fortified settlement left over from the Kingdom of the huns and the Western Turkic Khanate.
     The khazars attached great importance to the city, since its fortress was part of the system of defensive fortresses on the trade route along the banks of the Seversky Donets.
     The khazars significantly improved the defensive system of the settlement, deepened and expanded the ravine ditches, raised the ramparts by two meters, and in some places they covered the slopes of the ramparts with stone slabs.
     The main activity of the townspeople was based on the production of agricultural products. The city became the center of grain, honey, and cattle trade in the region for three centuries.
     The city and surrounding area were inhabited by the remnants of the scythians and sarmatians, as well as more or less organized turks of the Turkic Khaganate. In the 8th century, the main population here became alans, who manifested themselves in the alanian version of the saltov culture, characteristic of the saviro-bulgars and khazars.
     Judging by the burials, remains of dwellings and treasures found here, people lived here well.
     After the defeat of the Khazaria in the 10th century, which was committed by Rus, many russian-slavs of the northern type arrive in the khazar fortress.
     Archaeological material indicates that since the 11th century, a separate type of culture began to develop here, which could be called ruso-khazar.
     The process of combining the peoples of the russian-khazar culture was interrupted by the appearance of the Horde steppe dwellers, who interrupted this idyll in 1239.
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