The Origins of the Khazars | DNA - Geneticist Razib Khan

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In this episode I host Geneticist Razib Khan on the origins of the Khazars and we explore what ancient and medieval DNA can tell us about the rise, fall and legacy of this mighty empire.

Rising from obscurity this once nomadic Turkic people settled in modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan and went on to create a commercial empire that would dominate the Medieval world surrounding it.

From warring with other Turks, making alliances with the Byzantine Empire and their eventual fall to the Kievan Rus' we watch as another Steppe epic is carved into history.

Lastly we approach the legacy of the Khazars exploring controversy and who they are today.

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[studyofantiquityandthemidd]

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[MTB]

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[cloudninetherapeutics]

Sending love and prayers for comfort at this very difficult time. The world was a much better place with Nick in it, but he left a legacy that will outlast time.

[rdum]

I think it would be relevant to mention modern turkic Judaist ethnicities still exists. Krymchak and Karaim. They live not that far from former khazar territories. In Crimea

[helenge]

Yes, I read an article about Jewish DNA wrote by a professor in John Hopkins. There were only 10% Jews who had the DNA of Semitic people, and majority of Jews, the Ashkenazi Jews, are the offsprings of Khazarian. So the Anti-Semitism is falsely claimed by the Jewish population. I also Watched a documentary video from YouTube that after 1948, the Jews occupied the land from the Palestine people, they built many symbolic structure and falsely claimed that those symbolic building were left from their ancestor.

[deputyify]

This is my first time stumbling upon this channel. 😢 😔 I’m glad just as a traveler on this history search for the truth I now know who Nick was and know that he existed on this magical earth. A friend even in death you have made. Fly High Nick

[ahmedabdi]

Really heartbreaking to hear Nick’s condition. Is he still alive or did he pass away? If he’s alive but sick, I wish him quick healing. If he passed away, my thoughts are with his loved one’s bed. Nick, rest in peace.

[papazataklaattiranimam]

The Khazars were as powerful as the Byzantine Empire, which they befriended in the 10th century and who wanted to use them as allies in the struggle against the equally powerful Arabs of the Muslim Caliphate.

Khazaria lasted for about five hundred years. It is believed that without the Khazars, Europe (or at least a sizable part of that continent) would have been completely Islamic.

Arthur Koestler says in The Thirteenth Tribe: “As Charles Martel's France saved Gaul and Western Europe, so the Khazars saved the eastern approaches to the Volga, the Danube, and the East Roman Empire Itself.” (P. 30).

[greenlitmining]

Keep up the good fight bro! I have loved your channel and look forward to enjoying more of it with you at the helm!

[jackcarraway]

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

[conservativemike]

My uncle in California has a recurring dream for years that he’s riding across the steppe firing arrows in a dusty swirling battle. Now we know why!

[HistoryandHeadlines]

Wishing you a marvelous March, Nick and fellow subscribers!

[AnyahEMB]

Praying for recovery. This is such an informative channel. 🙏🏽

[papazataklaattiranimam]

To understand a biological tribal affiliation (in terms of Y-chromosomal haplogroups, subclades, and haplotypes) of two excavated Khazar bone remains in the lower Don region in the south of Russia, we have extracted and analyzed their DNA and showed that both belonged to haplogroup R1a and its subclade Z93. The pattern could be considered typically “Turkic”, and not a Jewish DNA lineage. Their haplotypes were also identified and reported here. The haplotypes indicate that both Khazars were unrelated to each other in a sense that their common ancestor lived as long as 1500 - 2500 years earlier than them, in the middle of the II millennium BC—beginning of the I millennium BC, during typically Scythian times or somewhat earlier. Their haplotypes are unrelated to well-known Jewish haplotypes of haplogroup R1a.

Klyosov, Anatole & Faleeva, T.. (2017). Excavated DNA from Two Khazar Burials. Advances in Anthropology. 07. 17-21. 10.4236/aa.2017.71002.

[BulanGoldstein]

Russians didn't "crush" Khazars alone but with Oghuzes and pechenegs both of them are Turkic people. Actually he could not beat Khazars and Bulgars without Turkic people. Eventually he was killed by Pechenegs and he couldn't hold any of those territories.
Another point is Sviatoslav himself wore a Turkic prince headdress and it seems wear Turkic clothing with lapels closing to the left side. Just interesting.

[aliciahowell]

Hi I hope you let Nick know his fillers are sending healing thoughts and prayers his way! I hope he recovers and feels better soon! I’m a kidney transplant candidate and know how scary dealing with sepsis and dialysis can be. Hang in there and rest up so we can enjoy your talks again.

[CharmOfRGE]

HIS DEATH SOUNDS SUSPICIOUS TO ME. I think someone should continue his research, so that the entire world may finally know the truth.

[papazataklaattiranimam]

They were warrior nomadic Turkic people and closely related to Avars, Huns, Bulgars, Onogurs, Utigurs, Kutrigurs, Sabirs, Tuoba(?), Saragurs, Hephthalites, Kidarites, Xiongnu, Tiele, Dingling, Yueban, Jie, Di etc.

[ketherwhale]

I think the reason they don’t want to be associated with Khazars origins is that “ their people” didn’t actually exit Egypt and wander the desert. It’s less impactful to know your group wasn’t as far back. They’re old and definitely Jewish, but recent additions so to speak.

[christymcdonel]

I love this YouTube channel! I am so saddened to hear how sick Nick is. I just prayed for him & will continue to do so. He does AMAZING work!I enjoy & appreciate his programs so much!
Prayers for Nick & for his wife & family as well.
Prayers for Healing in Jesus’ Name! 🙏💛