E-Y6938 is one of the founding Ashkenazi male lineages also present in the Cozlone noble House of Aba. According to Magister P, Kéza and Kálti, Aba descends through Pota from Csaba the Cuman and his Cozlone wife. The only problem with this is that Cumans are typically represented by Y-DNA Haplogroup R. How did a typically Jewish marker like Y-DNA Haplogroup E-B405 come to be a marker for Cozlone nobility? This project fuses together Family legends from members of the House of Aba as well as from the Houose of Yitzhak Sangari / Mangari (M and the Samekh S can be mistaken for each other in some Hebrew scripts, if Mangari s the original it could be a misspelling of Malgari meaning from Bulgaria. If Sangari is correct it means from the area of Troy) sharing the same E-Y6938 Y-DNA markers to re-construct a valid history of the family originating among the Cozlones (Kazár) of Etelköz (Khalyzia) better known in English as the Principality of Halych on the Prut. 

But before we get started, we have to nip in the bud some of the mistaken assumptions about the ancient origins of this Haplogroup. 

E-L791 KEINITES BEFORE 5th CENTURY AD

The Semitic people of HaShem first began to appear by the start of the 4th Millenia BC (according to legend among a group of Keinites who were seeking spiritual communion with Adam Kadmon by expressing that  their "punishment" was too much for them to bare -Gen 4:13). Tradition holds that the history of our particular Semitic lineage begins with E-L791 Keinites in the land of Tubal. In the first century of the Hebrew calendar, these Keinites grouped into E-Y45801 and E-Z20942. By the second century of the Hebrew calendar, E-Z20942 had grouped into the E-Y179036 and E-Y4971 Keinite lineages. By the fourth century of the Hebrew calendar, E-Y4971 had grouped into 5 Keinite lineages including E-Y6926 of Tubal. Eight centuries later, E-Y6926 had grouped into the E-Y290837 and E-Y6936 Nesite lineages. Twelve centuries later, at the time of the Exodus from Egypt, E-Y6936 had grouped into E-FT8873 and the E-Y6923 dynasty among the Mittani (מדין).

5th CENTURY ROMAN E-Y6923 JEWS

Eighteen centuries later, in the Current Era's early 5th century Byzantine Empire, E-Y6923 dynasty of social hierarchs finally began to form into four new groups. This was centuries before there was such a thing as Sephardi Jews and Ashkenazi Jews. At that time there was only Romaniote Judaism in the Eastern Roman Empire. Romaniote Jews are the ancestors of both Sephardic and the Italian Nusach as well as the Ashkenazi Jews. The descendants of the four unique Late Roman Jewish branches of the E-Y6923 MRCA did not prosper until the following century. Phylogeography indicates that this particular family of Jews actually lived in Pannonia in-keeping with historical data about Jews in Pannonia under the Roman Empire.

6th CENTURY BYZANTINE E-Y6938 JEWS IN EASTERN EUROPE DURING THE GREAT MIGRATIONS

The Byzantine Jewish E-Y6938 MRCA lived in the early 6th century. Romaniote Judaism spread out from the Byzantine aka Eastern-Roman Empire westwards along the Mediterranean and Northward into Central Europe. Three of the four Byzantine Jewish E-Y6923 lineages began to prosper along the Mediterranean sea routes, while the fourth, E-Y6938 prospered exclusively in Eastern Europe. Thus E-Y6923 reflects the migration of Romaniote Judaism from Byzantium to the East and to the west whereby the E-Y6938 branch is the Eastern Branch of the family and all other known branches continued in the Mediterranean until after 1492. Although Jews have been recorded as present in Eastern Europe from the time of the Roman empire we are currently unable to state when exactly E-Y6938 first arrived in Eastern Europe. If it was in the 5th century then the evidence so far suggests that only a thin father-son thread survived until the 8th century when it began to thrive. This would have been very lucky considering the various peoples who had passed through the Northern reaches of the Roman Empire's East European provinces, starting with the Empire of Attila the Hun in the mid 5th century. Nevertheless, since Romanians survived in the area throughout those raids it is not unreasonable to imagine that Jews survived among them too. One way or another the first E-Y6938 carrier, from a Romaniote cluster, lived in the Byzantine Empire some time between 400 and 550 CE. 

E-Y6940 YITZHAK HA-SANGARI'S 8th CENTURY KHALYZIANS

Later, some time between 550 and 750, his descendant E-Y6940 found himself in a very secure position in Eastern Europe so that his progeny thrived certainly as a result of the conversion of the Bulanid House of Pota on the Northern Prut Basin's Kingdom of Black Khazaria. The lineage arrived from the main Anatolian hub of Byzantine Jewry to White Croatia (ancient Carpathian Galicia) in the mid 8th century (NB long before the Kalomymous dynasty ever existed) when E-Y6938's only known successful descendant E-Y6940 (Yitzhak HaSangari כהן מדין) began to branch out from that region through 2 sons, E-B405 and E-Y179930, with descendants reaching present day Poland (13), Belarus (12), Ukraine (11), Lithuania (9), Russia (6), Germany (3), Austria (1), Slovakia (1), Hungary (1), Latvia (1) and naturally also but only several centuries later, America (2). If the lineage had only migrated to Eastern Europe from elsewhere one would expect to find more ancient examples of it in other locations but none have been found. Furthermore, the non-Jewish branch of the E-B405 cluster is also East European. The E-Y6940 cluster is distributed around the area called Carpathian Galicia (the main hub of the Khalyzian Principality of Halych). The non-Jewish branch of the cluster is a Cozlone noble family nestled within the Jewish branches of E-Y6923 indicating a Jewish family which benefitted from converting to the Christian faith. Therefore E-Y6940 clearly emerged in and flourished from an East European location forcing us to look for a Jewish History in Carpathian Galicia from the 8th century onwards paying special attention to any picture which resembles these facts. At least one branch of E-B405 joined the Messianic Hebrew Nobility of Eastern Europe.

THE COZLONE BRANCH OF E-B405

The story of the Cozlones (Kazarig/Kotrag/Kazárok/Kutrigur) seems to begin with one of Attila's "White Croatian" descendants referred to in Hungarian Chronicles as Csaba the Cuman. He had only two known Cuman sons, Ed & Edumean although the Cozlone House of Pota (the Hungarian term for the Cozlone Dukes at least until the 13th century) is also said to have come from him. Cozlones are Kalyzok in Hungarian but were called Cozar by Magister P and called Corosmi by Simon Keza. Cozar is the Hungarian word for a goatherd (Kazár / Kozár). Pota was only a "nephew" to the fraternal Cuman Houses of Ed & Edumean indicating that the Pota line descended from Ed & Edumen's sister, Csaba's otherwise unmentioned daughter. Csaba's wife was a Cozlone and since Pota was the father of a Cozlone lineage it is obvious that the ancestral mother of this lineage was also married to a Cozlone prince. It is the story of Pota's lineage which proves crucial to understanding the history of the E-Y6940 lineage.

THE 9th CENTURY COZLONE KAGHAN OF ETELKÖZ

Obadiah (786-809), the son of Bulan and Sarakh was the first Jewish Chagan of the Halych-Khalyzians. He had invited E-Y6940 Yitzhak Sangari who convinced him to establish Noahite Judaism among his fellow Chernivtsi-Khalyzian militia in the 790s. Although the Edumean-Horvat branch of Cozlone nobility in Banat were not affected by Obadiah's Judaic policies, significant traces of Obadiah's Chernivtsi-Khalyzian mercenaries can be identified in Transylvania and Hungary even as far south as Chelarevo in the Southwest. Obadiah also expanded to the Dniepr in the east. Obadiah (contemporary with Sulabi b. Timer) was succeeded by Hanukkah (contemporary with Ayyar b. Sulabi) then Isaac/Canizauci (contemporary with Tat Ugyek b. Ayyar) then Zebulun. 

Baring in mind that Pota is the Hungarian way of referring to the Leaders of the Cozlones, Magister P writes concerning the late 9th century Pota: "When [Ed & Edumen's nephew] the prince of Khalyzia heard this, he with all his men went barefoot to prince álmos and presented diverse gifts for his pleasure and, having opened the gate of the city of Khalyzia, he welcomed him as his lord and he gave as hostage his only son together with the sons of the leading men of the kingdom and, in addition, he gave ten of the very best steeds and 300 horses with saddles and bridles, and 3000 marks of silver and 200 marks of gold and the most noble raiment both for the prince and all his warriors as well. After prince Álmos had taken repose in Khalyzia for a month, [Pota] the prince of Khalyzia and his other companions, whose sons had been given as hostages, told prince álmos and his noblemen to descend westwards beyond the Havas [Mountain] into the land of pannonia. for they said to them that the land there was very good and that there flowed there the most noble springs, whose names were, as we said above, the Danube, Tisza, Vág [Wag], Maros [Morisius], Körös [Crisius], Temes [Temus] and others, that it had first been the land of King Attila and that after his death the Roman princes had taken possession of the land of Pannonia, up to the Danube, where they had gathered their shepherds. But the great Kean [Keanus magnus], Duke of Bulgaria, grandfather of Duke Salan [Salanus], had taken possession of the land that lies between the Danube and the Tisza, as far as the borders of the Ruthenes and the Poles, and had made the Slavs and Bulgarians live there. Duke Morout, whose grandson was called by the Hungarians Menumorout, because he had concubines, had taken possession of the land between the Tisza and Igfon wood, that lies towards Transylvania [ad Erdeuelu], from the Maros river up to the Szamos [Zomus], and the peoples that are called Cozar inhabited that land. A certain Duke called Glad coming from the castle of Vidin [Bundyn] had with the help of the Cumans [of Ed & Edumen] taken possession of the land from the Maros [Mors] river up to the castle of Orsova [Vrscia]. " Magister P also tells us that Arpad gave a great land in the forest of Matra to Ed & Edumen where their nephew Pota built a castle (between Kozárd, Kazár and Abasár) and that from this lineage, a long time later, came Samuel who was called Aba because of his religion and whose descendant Oliver son of Pata of the Aba clan was killed by Tatar Cumans during the reign of Ladislaus IV the last Arpad. It is important to note just as Kig Charles of England claims the title Windsor from his wife even though he is a Mount Batten by paternal line it is very likely that the House of Aba's descent from Pota is likewise more than likely through a Maternal link rather than a Patrilineal descent. Hence rather than the typical Haplogroup R of the Cumans, the House of Aba are represented by E-B405.   

Hasdai ibn Shaprut tells us in his letter to Khazaria that the Slavic ambassadors promised to deliver the message to the King of Slavonia, who would hand the same to Jews living in "the country of Hungarin", who, in turn, would transmit it farther. This lets us know that Pota's "Lost Jewish Kingdom" was on or perhaps even within the easternmost borders of Hungary not far, far away on the Volga. Chernivtsi (Jerusalem on the Prut) in Ruthenian Galicia later known as Ashkenazia due to its dense jewish population certainly fits the bill.

COZLONES = KALYZOK / COROSMI / COZAR= COZRI

Moreover, the Aba clan were Jews descended from Yitzhaq Sangari, the same religion of Samuel Aba prior to his conversion to Christianity. This is because the House of Aba were Black Khazars which is nothing but another way of referring to the Cozlones. Armed with this information we can now flesh-out the Cozlone history with Jewsh traditions concerning the Cozri (כוזרי) usually misinterpreted as a reference to the Islamic and Pagan and Christian White Khazars of the Volga where there is no evidence of Judaism. The better interpretation of the Cozri as Cozlones (Black Khazars) makes much more sense. Black-Khazars were called Black because they were a mixture of Akatzirs and Jews. 

This application reveals that what the Hungarian tradition refers to as Khalyzia (Ἀτελκούζ) is the Jewish kingdom of Khazaria. Likewise the Pota leadership coincides with the Bulanid leaders of the Cozri. The Pota leader who met Almos was therefore the Bulanid Aaron I and his hostaged son was therefore the Bulanid Menahem. In fact, Samuel Aba would coincide with the Pota who would have succeeded the last known Bulanid Joseph. This causes no contradiction with the known Christian Kahans of the White Khazars (Zakariya, David and George) who ruled the White Khazars of the Kuban before Samuel Aba was converted with the Black Magyars which is otherwise regarded as a contradiction to the fact that Khazars are supposed to have tried to convert the Rus to Noahide Judaism in 987. But now that we know only the Cozlones (Black Khazars) adhered to Judaism there is no contradiction. Moreover, the appearance of Judaic or other Khazar artefacts in the area of greater Hungary is likewise no longer any mystery. Jewish Khazaria was always Chernivtsi and was never situated on the Volga.

According to older Semitic traditions, the Cozri (now understood to be Cozlone Black Khazars) were certain Romaniote Jews (KOHENS, JOSEPHITES & SIMEONITES) from South Judah (between Philistia and Edom) who had settled in the Roman Empire's province of Lesser-Armenia (Ancient Ashkenaz/İşkenaz/Eşkenaz, Eşkenez/Eşkens, Aşhanas, and Aschuz) before migrating to Eastern Europe. Because of the Edumean origin of the Simeonites the Cozri were sometimes referred to as "Royte Yidlekh" or Red Hebrews.

Here is the Simeonite Coat of Arms for the Cherniv Kalpaki branch of the Romaniote Tribe of Simeon. Cherniv Kalpaki means Black Hats. 

The Group Coat of Arms is the Family Crest of the E-Y6940 House of Aba who ruled the Romaniote Branch of the Tribe of Simeon into Hungary. 

THE E-A14039 HOUSE OF ABA

SAMUEL ABA'S FAMOUS PEYYOTE