Anonymus 745 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L IX |
Ethnicity | Khazar |
Locations | Khazaria (residence) |
Titles | Khagan of the Khazars (office) |
Textual Sources | Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. G. Moravcsik, trans. R. J. H. Jenkins (Washington, D.C., 1967) (history) |
Anonymus 746 was the khagan of the Khazars (χαγάνος ἄρχων Χαζαρίας): Const. Porph., DAI 38, 17ff., 31ff. He held the Turkish race (i.e. the Magyars or Hungarians) in respect and gave a noble Khazar lady (Anonyma 103) as bride to Lebedias 1, the first voivode of the Turks: Const. Porph., DAI 38, 17ff. Later he proposed to appoint Lebedias as ruler (ἄρχων) of the Turks (the Hungarians); Lebedias declined and advised the appointment of either Almoutzes 1 or Arpades 1, and the khagan followed his advice and appointed Arpades 1: Const. Porph., DAI 38, 31ff. The date was probably around the mid ninth century; cf. Arpades 1.
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