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ID: 8711774
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8711774

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Balanjar (lost settlement)  Balanjar (lost settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 43 09 03 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 43.1510  decimal degrees
Long: 046 51 25 E  degrees minutes   Long: 46.8575  decimal degrees

Note: Former first capital of the Khazar Khaganate. A hill fort in Russia's Dagestan has been identified as Balanjar's location, though other sources state that the location of the ancient city is still uncertain.

Names:
Balanjar (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Khazar Empire (former nation/state/empire)  ........  Khazar Empire (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Balanjar (lost settlement)  ............  Balanjar (lost settlement) (P)

Place Types:
lost settlement (preferred, C)
inhabited place (H)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Khazar Empire .......... (former nation/state/empire)
..................  (World, Europe) [6003066]
possibly identified as ....  Gel'bakh .......... (inhabited place)
........................................  (World, Asia, Russia, Respublika Dagestan) [8711775]

Sources and Contributors:
Balanjar..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Brook, Jews of Khazaria (2010) 22
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Brook, Jews of Khazaria (2010) 22
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Brook, Jews of Khazaria (2010) 22
..........  History of al-Tabari 15 (1985) 94

 

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