Battle of Balanjar (730s)

The Battle of Balanjar was fought around 732 near the Khazar city of Balanjar. The Umayyad army, commanded by the prince Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, was victorious and advanced on towards Samandar.

Battle of Balanjarl
Part of the Second Arab–Khazar War
Date c. 732 CE Location Balanjar Result Arab Muslim victory
Belligerents
Khazar Khaganate	Umayyad Caliphate
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik
Strength
?	?
Casualties and losses
?	?

See also

• Battle of Balanjar (disambiguation)

References

• Kevin Alan Brook. The Jews of Khazaria. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006.
• Douglas M. Dunlop. The History of the Jewish Khazars, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1954.
• Peter B. Golden. Khazar Studies: An Historio-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars. Budapest: Akademia Kiado, 1980.
• Norman Golb and Omeljan Pritsak, Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1982.