{
  "g": "h,empire,asia",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Khazar Khaganate",
  "years": "650–969",
  "id": "khazar",
  "index": "e/khazar-khaganate",
  "title": "Banner of the Khazar Khaganate",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "sky-blue",
      "hex": "#73bced",
      "cmyk": "51/21/0/7",
      "note": "Turkic blue of the eternal sky."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Wolf emblem and star motifs."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Khazar Khaganate (c. 650–969) was a Turkic steppe empire centred on the lower Volga, famous for its ruling class's conversion to Judaism and its buffer role between Byzantium, the Caliphate, and the Rus'\n - **Construction:** a sky-blue field bearing a stylised wolf standard trailed by five stars — a modern reconstruction from the Turkish \"16 Great Turkic Empires\" series drawn from Khazar steppe iconography\n - No authenticated banner survives; the Khazars used Turkic tamgas and (for their Jewish elite) Hebrew lettering on coins",
  "flag": "empires/khazar.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Khazar Khaganate",
    "officialName": "Khazaria",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- The Khazar ruling elite converted to Judaism c. 740 — the only medieval state outside Yemen known to have done so\n - Khazar power collapsed after Sviatoslav of Kiev sacked their capital Atil c. 969\n - Khazarian history survives mainly through the Rus' Primary Chronicle, Arab geographers, and the King Joseph correspondence",
  "_name": "Khazar Khaganate",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "khazar"
}