Battle of Shirvan
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| Battle of Shirvan | |||||||
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| Part of Arab-Khazar wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Khazar Khanate | Abbasid Caliphate | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Ras Tarkhan |
Musa ibn Ka'B † Yazid ibn Asid ibn Zafir al-Sulami | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 10.000-30.000 | 63.000[2] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | The entire army was killed, 50,000 captured[3] | ||||||
The Khazars entered Arab-dominated Georgia in 764. They returned, taking many prisoners and plundering.[4] The Arabs were able to land a total of 63 thousand soldiers against the Caspian attack. Yazid reported the Caspian attack. The letter, written about the Caspian attack, aroused great fear in Baghdad. As a matter of fact, Ahmed ibn A'sam uses the following expressions to describe this fear: "The caliph read the letter and was saddened, the outcome of the job scared him."[5]
Meanwhile, a large Arab army of 63 thousand people set out for Shirvan. They faced the army under the rule of the Khazar Khan, who had been waving his arms in the region for a long time. In the war, the Arab army was devastated by the Khazars. 63 thousand Arabs were killed; This battle was such a great defeat for the Arabs that Ibn al-A'sam called the battle "Muslims have never seen such a day of fear and horror." He expresses the Arab army with his words and immediately after that, he gives the news that the Arab army was defeated "Many of them were broken."[6] Musa bin Ka'b also said that He was killed by the Khazars in the war.[7] However, Yazid bin Usayd escaped from the battlefield and took refuge in Barda.[8] After this war, the Khazars descended to the south and approached Baghdad. and they plundered countless places and took 50 thousand prisoners[9] At the end of the battle, the decisive Khazar domination began in the Caucasus and this war ended the Khazar-Arab Wars. After that, there would be small-scale raids organized by the Khazars. As the Arabs did not have the strength to attack, they would take the defensive position.
- ↑ Altay Tayfun Özcan,Khazar Khaganate And The World Around It,p.203
- ↑ Ahmad ibn Asam Al-Kufi,Al-Futuh,p.74
- ↑ Ahmad ibn Asam Al-Kufi,Al-Futuh,p.75
- ↑ K. Czeglèdy, Khazar Raids in Transcaucasia in 762-764 A.D. pp. 84-85
- ↑ Ahmed ibn A'sam al-Kufi, Kitab al-Fütuh, p. 74
- ↑ Ahmed ibn A'sam Al-Kufi, Kitab Al-Fütuh, p.74
- ↑ Al-Tabari XXIX, p. 15
- ↑ Altay Tayfun Özcan, Khazar Khanate and the World Around it, p. 204
- ↑ Ahmed ibn A'sam Al-Kufi, Kitab Al-Fütuh, pp.74-75
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