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- noun Plural form of
Chozar .
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In the course of the following centuries, under the shadow of their more civilized brethren, other similar hordes were introduced, nomad and pagan still; they might indeed happen sometimes to pass down from the east of the Caspian as well as from the west, hastening to the south straight from Turkistan along the coast of the Aral; -- either road would lead them down to the position which the Chozars were the first to occupy in Georgia and Armenia, -- but still there would be but one step in their journey between their old native sheep-walk and horse-path and the fair region into which they came.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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This horde of Turks, the Chozars, was nomad and pagan; it consisted of mounted shepherds, surrounded with their flocks, living in tents and waggons.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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And now I have said enough, and more than enough, of the original state of the Turkish race, as exhibited in the Chozars and Turcomans: -- it is time to pursue the history of that more important portion of it with which we are properly engaged, which received some sort of education, and has proved itself capable of social and political union.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity John Henry Newman 1845
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Sila, -- the uttermost parts of Turkestan, and the country of the Chozars, and then it enters at the strait, till it washes the shore of Syria.
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With a band of followers, attached to his person by common hope or common despair, Justinian fled from the inhospitable shore to the horde of the Chozars, who pitched their tents between the Tanais and Borysthenes.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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In the short interval, the Chersonites had returned to their city, and were prepared to die in arms; the khan of the Chozars had renounced the cause of his odious brother; the exiles of every province were assembled in Tauris; and Bardanes, under the name of Philippicus, was invested with the purple.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Patzinacites, Chozars, and Turks, repaired to the standard of victory; and the ambassador of Nicephorus betrayed his trust, assumed the purple, and promised to share with his new allies the treasures of the Eastern world.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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At his liberal invitation, the horde of Chozars [98] transported their tents from the plains of the Volga to the mountains of
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Constantine the Fourth, with the daughter of the king of the Chozars, the nuptials of the granddaughter of Romanus with a Bulgarian prince, and the union of Bertha of France or Italy with young Romanus, the son of Constantine Porphyrogenitus himself.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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For himself, that emperor had chosen a Barbarian wife, the daughter of the khan of the Chozars; but in the marriage of his heir, he preferred an Athenian virgin, an orphan, seventeen years old, whose sole fortune must have consisted in her personal accomplishments.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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