Kharsciu in Crimea

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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Kharsciu in Crimea **
     The city was located in the Crimea and was an important administrative center. In addition to the fortress of Kharsciu, history also remembers the area of Kharsciu, which is mentioned in an 8th-century Byzantine one of the manuscripts.
     It is assumed that the word «hara-siu» is a local Crimean hydronym, which may correspond to the river Kara–su, now Karasevka.
     According to another version, the word «harai» could mean free people among the khazars, with whom this city and its districts abounded in the middle of the 8th century.
     The name of this fortress is derived from the word «khatsyr» or «akatsir», which in ancient times, at the end of the 6th century, was called khazar.
     There is a gloss from mid-8th-century issued by one of the bishops of Constantinople, which mentions the diocese of Fulls, which was located near the city of Kharsciu. In the turkic reading, you will get a city on Black water, maybe on a Black river.
     In general, the fortress should be considered built by the Khazars. Since there was a Khotsir diocese, it covered those khazars in the Crimea who professed christianity. This is a fair enough position, considering that the influence of Byzantium in the Crimea was much stronger than in the Khazaria themselves.
     Here the khazars and byzantines had a political alliance and parity. As mentioned in the glossa on Khotsir diocese in a certain city Khara-siu on the river Kara-su suggests that the greek bishops spoke at the time with the local khazars, which confirms the interest of the Emperors of the time to joint participation with the khazars in the colonization of the Crimea.
     There is nothing in any subsequent documents of Constantinople about this city or about the bishopric in it. Apparently, this notification or glossa was a statement of some of the missionary plans of Byzantium to christianize the Khaganate, which was easier to start with its colonies in the Crimea.
     This process, in its diplomatic format, was conducted by Byzantium during all three centuries of Khazaria's existence. We can recall assistance in the construction of Sarkel, many joint fortress objects in the Crimea, participating in disputes about religions among the khazars, one of which was attended by the Emperor's favorite, his recluse and linguist Kirill, then still Konstantin.
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