Tar'mach was a

Khazar The Khazars ; 突厥可薩 ''Tūjué Kěsà'', () were a nomadic Turkic people who, in the late 6th century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, an ...

general, active in the

Arab–Khazar Wars The Arab–Khazar wars were a series of conflicts fought between the Khazar Khaganate and successive Arab caliphates in the Caucasus region from to 799 CE. Smaller native principalities were also involved in the conflict as vassals of the two ...

of the 720s and 730s CE. He was sent by

Parsbit Parsbit, also known as Prisbit (705 – 737 CE) was a Khazar noblewoman active in the 730s CE. In Armenian sources ( Lewond), Parsbit is called "the mother of the khagan". Whether she was the regent for an infant monarch (unlikely, since during th ...

to invade

Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...

in 730.

Sources

* Golden, Peter B. ''Khazar Studies: An Historico-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars.'' Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980. Khazar generals 8th-century generals People of the Arab–Khazar wars 730s in the Umayyad Caliphate {{Asia-mil-bio-stub