Map: Khazar Khaganate, 650–850 Byzantine sources refer to Hungary as Western Tourkia in contrast to Khazaria, Eastern Tourkia.  The Byzantines called Khazaria Tourkía, and by the 9th century referred to the Khazars as “Turks” The Khazars[a] (/ˈxɑːzɑːrz/) were a semi-nomadic Turkic people that in the late 6th-century AD established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan.[10] They … Continue reading Eastern Tourkia, Khazaria