The Battle of Balanjar was fought around 732 near the Khazar city of

Balanjar Balanjar (''Baranjar'', ''Belenjer'', ''Belendzher'', ''Bülünjar'') was a medieval city located in the North Caucasus region, between the cities of Derbent and Samandar, probably on the lower Sulak River. It flourished between the seventh and t ...

. The

Umayyad The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE; , ; ar, ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, al-Khilāfah al-ʾUmawīyah) was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was ruled by the ...

army, commanded by the prince Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, was victorious and advanced on towards Samandar.Brook p. 112

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* Kevin Alan Brook. ''The Jews of Khazaria.'' 3rd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018. *

Douglas M. Dunlop Douglas Morton Dunlop (1909–1987) was a renowned British oriental studies, orientalist and scholar of Islamic and Eurasian history. Early life and education Born in England, Dunlop studied at Bonn and Oxford under the historian Paul E. Kahle, Pa ...

. ''The History of the Jewish Khazars,'' Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954. *

Peter B. Golden Peter Benjamin Golden (born 1941) is an American historian who is Professor Emeritus of History, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. He has written many books and articles on Turkic peoples, Turkic and Central Asian Studies, ...

. ''Khazar Studies: An Historico-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars.'' Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980. Battles involving the Khazars Battles involving the Umayyad Caliphate Balanjar 730s History of the North Caucasus 730s conflicts {{battle-stub

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