Alp Tarkhan

A Khazar general active in the Khazar-Arab Wars wars of the early 700s. It is unclear whether "Alp Tarkhan" is a name or a title. The Old Turkic word Alp means hero, and was an element in such names as Alp Arslan, but could also be used as a title for a victorious general. Similarly, Tarkhan or "warlord" could be used as both a personal name and a military rank.

Khazaria

Byzantium Bulgaria Abbasids Kipchaks Meshchera Pax Khazarica Radhanites Rus Volga trade route Dnieper trade route

Khazar rulers	Irbis Busir Bihar Parsbit Zachariah Bulan Obadiah Benjamin Aaron II Joseph David George

Other figures	Alp Iluetuer Alp Tarkhan Balgatzin Barjik Hazer Tarkhan HLGW John of Gothia Lebedias Leo IV Papatzys Pesakh Ras Tarkhan Serach Sfengus Sviatoslav Theodora Tzitzak Yitzhak ha-Sangari

Places	Atil Azaq Balanjar Bar Chersonesos Daghestan Güsliyev Golden Hills Kaffa Kavkaz Kazarki Kerch Kerem Khamlij Khazaran Khumar Levedia Saltovo-Mayaki Samandar Sambalut Sambat Samiran Samosdelka Saqsin Sarkel Semikarakorsk Sudak Taman Tamatarkha

Tributaries	Abkhazians Alani Arsiya Baranjars Barsils Bashkirs Burtas Crimean Goths East Slavs Huns Juhuri Kabars Kassogs Lazica Lezgins Magyars Mordvins Oghuz Onogurs Pechenegs Sabirs Sarir Volga Bulgars

Scholars	Mikhail Artamonov Vasili Barthold D.M. Dunlop Norman Golb Peter B. Golden Lev Gumilev Alexander Harkavy Roman K. Kovalev Thomas S. Noonan Svetlana Pletneva Omeljan Pritsak

Other topics	Khazar Correspondence Khazar language Kuzari Kievian Letter Mandgelis Document Red Jews Schechter Letter Khazars in fiction The Thirteenth Tribe

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Name	Tarkhan, Alp
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Short description	Khazar general
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