Surviving Khazaria?

Elfwine laconically has a point. THe Khazars were beset by a lot of enemies along its periphery. Especially, in its last century as a coherent polity. I always was amazed at how easily one campaign by the Kievan Rus was enough to destroy Khazaria as a power. Obviously some tipping point had occurred earlier.
 
Because the Khazars Khanate ceased to exist a millennium ago.

And?

The question was "how is it possible for it to survive as long as possible?"

I think it arguably did, for the reasons Herzen's love child spelled out.

Having a polity from that far back reach the present is not easy or inevitable, especially in this part of the world, which is so easily overrun by invasion.
 
And?

The question was "how is it possible for it to survive as long as possible?"

I think it arguably did, for the reasons Herzen's love child spelled out.

Having a polity from that far back reach the present is not easy or inevitable, especially in this part of the world, which is so easily overrun by invasion.

Surviving Khazarian culture at the least?
 
Surviving Khazarian culture at the least?

Again, OTL might - and I use the word might intentionally - be the best case scenario.

I don't want to be a wet blanket, but I do want to point out that their survival in any form is far from easy, so I'm not sure how you would prolong it.
 
I might add that some Khazar statelets may have survived as long as 2 or centuries longer in the Crimea and the Caucasus. As for surviving Khazarian culture, the most romantic component, the Jewish adherence of the ruling and some of the merchant classes, dwindled with the end of Khazaria. It was a semi-nomadic Turkish culture with an overlay of cosmopolitan sophistication. The underlaying culture lived on in the myriad Turkish stepe tribes including the such as the Magyars.
Finally, the surviving documentation of Khazaria, especially in it's final period is so scant that it is hard to seperate fact from folktale.
 

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It is possible that some Khazar rulers survived as Cuman vassals. There are some records that talk about Khazars post the destruction of the Khanate.
And Khazar culture was probably beside religion, close to it's Turkic neighbors culturally, and most Khazars were probably only Jews in name, so they were easily assimilated.
 
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