Hemlige on Ethillia river

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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Hemlige on Ethillia river **
     It was one of the names of Itil, the capital of Khazaria. Fortress Kagan also called Hemlige.
     Arab authors note that in the 8th century, inside the capital of Khazaria, on an island in the middle of the khazar river Ethillia, as they called Itil, there was a fortress of the Kagan, his castle, which the khazars themselves called Hemlige. This fortress was called al-Bayda by some arabic authors, while others called it Sarashen, both meaning White fortress.
     In 880, the name Hemlige is mentioned in the report of a spanish jew, it is assumed that it was Eldad Gadani. Gadani in one of his travels crossed the capital of the khazars from west to east, and then back. However, he called the main city of Khanate of Hemlige.
     Along the way, Gadani noted that the khazars 30 years before his campaign, in the middle of the 9th century, were extremely numerous, they were subject to 25 peoples and Kingdoms, among which there are muslim countries.
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