Anonymus 745

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L IX
EthnicityKhazar
LocationsKhazaria (residence)
TitlesKhagan of the Khazars (office)
Textual SourcesConstantine 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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