The Arab–Khazar wars were a series of conflicts, usually grouped into the First Arab–Khazar War (с. 642/652) and Second Arab–Khazar War (c. 722-737), fought between the armies of the Khazar Khaganate and the Umayyad Caliphate (as well as its Abbasid successor) and their respective vassals.
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| - The Arab–Khazar wars were a series of conflicts, usually grouped into the First Arab–Khazar War (с. 642/652) and Second Arab–Khazar War (c. 722-737), fought between the armies of the Khazar Khaganate and the Umayyad Caliphate (as well as its Abbasid successor) and their respective vassals.
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| - Caucasus temporarily controlled by Umayyads; Azerbaijan temporarily controlled by Khazars
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| - Map of the Khazar Khaganate in the 7th–9th centuries
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| - The Arab–Khazar wars were a series of conflicts, usually grouped into the First Arab–Khazar War (с. 642/652) and Second Arab–Khazar War (c. 722-737), fought between the armies of the Khazar Khaganate and the Umayyad Caliphate (as well as its Abbasid successor) and their respective vassals. The Arab–Khazar wars came about as the Khazars confronted the efforts of the Umayyad Caliphate to expand its control over and beyond the Caucasus. The first war was fought in the 640s and early 650s and ended with the defeat of an Arab force led by Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah outside the Khazar town of Balanjar. Hostilities broke out again with the Caliphate in the 710s, with raids back and forth across the Caucasus but few decisive battles. The Khazars, led by a prince named Barjik, invaded northwestern Iran and defeated the Umayyad forces at Ardabil in 730, killing the Arab governor al-Jarrah al-Hakami and briefly occupying the town. They were defeated the next year at Mosul, where Barjik was killed. Arab armies led first by the Arab prince Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik and then by Marwan ibn Muhammad (later Caliph Marwan II) poured across the Caucasus and eventually (in 737) defeated a Khazar army led by Hazer Tarkhan, briefly occupying Atil itself. The instability of the Umayyad regime made a permanent occupation impossible; the Arab armies withdrew and Khazar independence was re-asserted. The last major battle between Khazar and Caliphate forces took place in 799/800, when a Khazar army invaded Azerbaijan and Arran, and was driven back by the local governor, Yazid ibn Mazyad al-Shaybani. Low-intensity warfare continued thereafter in the region between the Khazars and the local Muslim principalities of the North Caucasus, until the collapse of the Khazar state in the late 10th century, but the great wars of the 8th century were not repeated.
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