318 Index
Arti/Artivah, Iranian goddess 109
Artimpasa, Scythian goddess 103, 109
Aryans 107, 124 n. 511, 279, 282
Arzhantseva, Irina 220 n. 228, 258
Ases 23–24, 63, 233, 241 n. 75, see also Alans
Ashina, Turkic dynasty 23, 46, 50, 52–54, 56,
61, 77, 277
Ashkenaz, son of Gomer 43 n. 110
Ashvini twins 120 n. 484
Asia 25, 27–29, 35, 136, 159, 166, 192, 269
Central 24, 25 n. 36, 27–28, 31, 280 n. 49
Middle 6, 21–22, 25 n. 36, 29–32 and
n. 62, 33, 37 n. 78, 47, 62, 78, 105,
150–151, 159, 165, 168, 218, 225, 241–246,
248–249, 253, 261, 265, 270, 275, 277
Aspandiat, supreme god of the Caucasian
Huns 116 and n. 461, 117, 233 n. 37
Asparukh, Bulgar ruller 123, 190 n. 86
Assyria/Assyrians 110, 124 n. 511
Astarte, Assyrian goddess 109, 111
Astrakhan 159 n. 43, 206 n. 151
Atanasov, Georgi 220
Atsirukhs, Ossetian (Nart) goddess 123
Attila, Hunnic ruler 185 n. 65, 277
Attis, Phrygian god 106
Augsburg 164
Avar Khaganate/ Avars 28 n. 46, 53,
185 n. 65, 205 n. 149, 276–277, 280–281
Avchi Tarkhan 61
Avesta 74
Avitochol, ancestor of the Bulgars 122
Ay Ana (Moon Mother) 123
Ay Khagan, mother of Oghuz Khagan 81, 123
Azerbaijan 44 and n. 112, 244 n. 87
Azov, Sea of 5, 27, 122 and n. 499, 129, 139,
144 n. 87, 151, 173, 183–184, 192–193, 195,
196 n. 106, 263 n. 194
B-d-shan River 211
Bactra River 40
Bactria 31, 33, 115 n. 456
baghatur 23 n. 25, 116, 233
Baghatur, name of the Khazar khagan
233 n. 37
Baghdad 15, 86–87, 90, 150, 156 n. 29, 158, 166
baghpur, Khwarezmian title 63
Bakhmutino culture 35
Al-Bakri, Abu ʿUbaid 136
Balanjar 44–45, 204 n. 144
Balanjar, son of Japheth 44–45
balgitzi/bolushchi 232 and n. 34
Bálint, Csanád 171 n. 5
Balkan Mountain Range (Stara Planina)
198 n. 118
Balkan Peninsula 24, 264, 273, 279
Balkh 15, 62
Al-Balkhi, Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl 137,
139, 142–143, 159 n. 44
Baltic Sea 148–149, 165
Band-e Amir River 40
Bansko 69
Baranov, Igor 5, 145, 183–184, 197, 204, 216,
232 n. 32, 236, 256–257 and n. 158,
259 n. 170, 264
Bardas, Byzantine noble 161
Barfield, Thomas 271
Bars-bek, Kyrgyz Khagan 65
Barsil/Barsul, brother of Khazar 39–40, 42,
45
Barsilia/Barsils 28, 37–41, 45, 57 n. 172, 75,
80, 95, 138
Bartol’d, Vasilii 262
Bashkiria/Bashkirs 32, 258
Basil II, Byzantine Emperor 266 n. 208
Basmils 53, 225
Batbayan, Bulgar ruler 138, 228–229 and
n. 25
Al-Bayda 239
Bedi Barsil, Oghuz hero 41
Beilis, Vol’f 141
bek 23, 60 and n. 183, 61–65, see also Khazar
bek
Belaia Vezha 239, 263 n. 196
Belgrad 239 n. 62
Benjamin, Khazar ruler 93
Benovska-Subkova, Milena 100 n. 383
Beshevliev, Veselin 230
Bible (Old Testament) 18, 87–89, 92–93, 107
Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 41
Prophet Isaiah 230
bident, see tamgas
Bilge Khagan, see Mojilian (Bilge) Khagan
Biliar 16, 241, 244 n. 87, 246
bird
bird of prey 78, 97 n. 363, 115–116, 118–119
camel-bird 78
dog-bird, see Simurgh
water bird 78, 121, 124–125