The "HAZAR EMPIRE"

The "HAZAR EMPIRE" - 602 - 1016 A.D
(Hazar İmparatorluğu)

Founder - There are no historical data as to the original founder, however, its greatest ruler was Hakan Yusuf.
Additional information:
The Hazars or Khazars were a nomadic people who set up an extensive state in the steppelands east and west of the lower Volga in the VIth century AD. They were converted to Judaism around 800 (that is, they chose this religion in preference to Islam and Christianity). In the later Xth century the rulers of Kiev broke their power. Some writers such as Arthur Koestler have claimed that the majority of the European or European-descended Ashkenazic community of today are not really Semites but are actually the descendants of these Hazars. They allegedly traveled westwards into Eastern Europe when the other Turkic peoples embraced Islam.
The Hazara of Afghanistan are an ethnic group which has been around for ages but which have only recently developed a sense of ethnic identity. There is no relation whatsoever to the medieval Hazars or Khazars.
Flag: The alleged flag of the Hazar Empire is blue with an unidentified white device in canton and five white stars arranged in a > pattern.
Area: The Hazars who are believed to be an offshoot of the Gokturks migrated to the West and formed a state stretching from the Caucasian Mntns to the Danube and to the middle of and Southern Russia.