The Khazar Khaganate and the Volga-Middle East Trade Route

800 CE · İtil (Volga deltası) — Bağdat · economic

In Itil the representatives of the three world religions (Muslim, Christian and Jewish) lived side by side with separate courts of law, and the fur and slave trade of the Volga flowed through Khazaria to Abbasid Baghdad.

Ibn Fadlan documents this multicultural commercial system in his travel account of 922.

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What was The Khazar Khaganate and the Volga-Middle East Trade Route?
In Itil the representatives of the three world religions (Muslim, Christian and Jewish) lived side by side with separate courts of law, and the fur and slave trade of the Volga flowed through Khazaria to Abbasid Baghdad.
When did The Khazar Khaganate and the Volga-Middle East Trade Route happen?
800 CE
Where did The Khazar Khaganate and the Volga-Middle East Trade Route take place?
İtil (Volga deltası) — Bağdat