Khan-Tuvan
| Tuğan Khagan | |
|---|---|
Tengriism |
Khan-Tuvan Dyggvi also known as Tuğan Khagan, according to
Khazar Khagan
of the 825 AD.
Per Pritsak, Dyggvi led a rebellion of the
Kabars against the Khagan Bek. As this rebellion took place roughly contemporaneously with the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism
, Pritsak have speculated that the rebellion had a religious aspect.
Constantine Zuckerman dismisses Pritsak's theory as untenable speculation,[2] and no record of any Khazar khagan fleeing to find refuge among the Rus' exists in contemporaneous sources.[3]
Ynglingar).[4]
Nevertheless, the possible Khazar connection to early Rus' monarchs is supported by the use of a
Sviatoslav I of Kiev; similar tamgas are found in ruins that are definitively Khazar in origin.[5]
See also
Notes
References
- Brook, Kevin Alan. The Jews of Khazaria . 2d ed. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
- Duczko, Władysław. Viking Rus: Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe. Brill, 2004.
- Franklin, Simon and ISBN 0-582-49091-X.
- Pritsak, Omeljan. The Origin of Rus'. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
- Pritsak, Omeljan. The Origins of the Old Rus' Weights and Monetary Systems. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1998.
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