Chelarevo

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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Chelarevo **
     Also Chilarevo settlement.
     Here, near the village of Chelarevo on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, archaeologists have unearthed an ancient city that researchers believe belongs to the Khazaria State.
     In any hronicles, historians have not yet found anything about the existence of the city here. Therefore, in research it goes as unnamed with the archaeological designation Chelarevo or Chelarevo settlement.
     Pavich mentioned the famous khazar city here in his sublime works. He believed that the last Khazarian Princess, Ateh, lived here.
     If the city really belonged to Khazaria, it was the westernmost of its many cities.
     However, the city's belonging to the khazar architectural culture is disputed by hungarians, who believe that the city could not belong to the khazars, because of its extreme remoteness from the khazar steppes.
     The hungarians believe that it was a magyar or at least avar city, while giving many arguments, from which it follows that their culture itself was at that time one of the branches of the saltov culture, the main one for the khazar peoples, which in the early middle ages also included hungarians.
     In the Early Middle ages, on the site of the Chelarevo settlement was a fortress, whatever one may say, of khazar architecture. At the fortress there were villages where hungarians, avars and khazars of the jewish religion lived.
     The fact that jews lived here is evident from the large number of graves with jewish symbols on memorial stones. But all the burials are also full of typical khazar cultural remains. These are, first of all, fragments of gray-clay pottery products typical of the saltov-mayatsk culture. In addition, the anthropology of the people buried in jewish graves is characterized by mongoloid character.
     Thus, the city with the fortress was built here not by jews, but by judaized turks, whose appearance here can be explained by the fact that they could not live with their relatives in Khazaria itself, apparently due to differences in religious worship.
     Most likely, the exodus of the khazar jews to the Danube river was associated with the destruction of the Khazarus state in the 10th century by Rus. At this time, many khazarian jews are scattered throughout Eastern Europe, the Crimea, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia.
     Many researchers attribute the khazars who arrived here to the kavar tribe, which, in the 9th century, were captured by the hungarian movement to Pannonia. This fact is confirmed by various sources.
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