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

The Byzantine Hebrew 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 East into Armenia. Three of the five Byzantine Jewish E-Y6923 lineages began to prosper along the Mediterranean sea routes, while the fifth, E-Y6938 migrated from Armenia exclusively to Eastern Europe where it prospered. 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 East's Branch of the family and all other known surviving branches continued West in the Mediterranean until after 1492 when some crossed the Atlantic. Although Hebrews 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 from Armenia. The story is that it arrived fleei g Persecutions from Persia. If it arrivedin 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 beyond 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 Hebrews survived among them too. One way or another the first E-Y6938 carrier, from a Romaniote cluster, lived in the Byzantine Empire (probably Iskenaz, Eskenaz and Ashanaz western Armenia) some time around 425 CE. MRCA E-Y6938's descendant E-Y6940 appeared aaround 525 CE. The Schechter Letter tells us that before the Khazars absorbed many Jewish refugees from Armenia. It also tells us that upon their conversion they were circumcised but only few of them observed Sabbath. 

E-Y6940 8th CENTURY JEWISH KHAZARS & KHAZARIA (CRIȘMEN & CRIȘANA) 

Around 775 CE, E-Y6940's MRCA found himself in a very secure position in Eastern Europe so that his 2 offspring lineages and their 9 offspring lineages thrived. This was could be as a result of the conversion of a group such as the one ruled by Khaqan-Beg Adon Sabriel. The conversion is supposed to have happened in the 740s which fits the timeframe and the Schechter Letter tells us that Hebrew Hakhams began to rule at this time who named the Chief Officer as Sabriel. If Ha-Sangari is the correct spelling of the name, it means from the area of Troy indicating that the lineage had arrived from the main Anatolian hub of Byzantine Jewry to ancient Carpathia because the idea that there was a Kingdom of Jewish Khazars in the Caucasus at this time has to be dismissed as a completely bogus fantasy with no evidence of a Jewish kingdom there at all whatsoever. People known as Khazars did exist in the Caucasus but they were by no means Jewish. Meanwhile the existence of a Judaized people living in the vicinity of the Carpathians and who were also regarded as as "Khazarian" is a historic fact. That a conversion event certainly did take place in the vicinity of BANAT around this time is evidenced by convert graves in Chelarevo. These "Khazars" are mentioned in Hungarian sources as the Cozlone entourage with Edumen who evicted Asparukh's Kubers from the Vlach Hills and established Sibiu in 677. This became the Hakhan Bek's Jewish Khazaria in the 740s (better known to us as Romania) which conquered the "Alan" (ie Iași) who ruled an area equivalent to the Crimean Khaganate in the 900s according to the Khazar correspondence. Black Khazaria was the area known today as Crișul Negru immediately to the north of Crișul-Alb (White Khazaria) where the Akatzirs (Kutrigurs) had originally established a base. These Jewish "Khazars" were the Alanic Crișmen also known as Korosmin or Cozlones or as Erzya who having made alliances with Galad from Vidin and the Marót (Mojmirid) clan of Moravia then evicted the Edumen family in preference for the Gyalu family. The entire area of greater Crișana was the original "Jewish" Khazaria which ruled by the "Three Romanian Dukes" began to be attacked by Arpad's Magyars who encouraged by the evicted Edumen, began to arrive from 895. 

It is in the mid 8th century (NB long before the Kalomymous dynasty ever existed) that 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. 

White Khazars were said to be in the original Khazar nobility while Black Khazars were supposed to be the polity. In time "Black Khazar nobility emerged being from the powerful influence of Black Khazars around the White Khazar throne. Khaqan-Beg Adon Sabriel was probably one of these. Isaac Sangari was certainly another one. Because the Gyalu line is also E-B405 we know that at least one branch of E-B405 joined the Noahide leaders of Crișana as "Black Khazar" nobility by the time Arpad's Magyars arrived. 

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 the East European location of the Cozlones forcing us to look for a Hebraic History in Carpathia from the 8th century onwards paying special attention to any picture which resembles these facts. 

THE COZLONE NOBILITY OF E-A14039

The story of the Cozlones seems to begin with a descendant of Avitohol. Avitohol has frequently been identified as Attila or at least his name has been translated as Attila but he was in fact the main leader of the 6th century Avars' Kazarig/Kotrag/Kazárok/Kutrigur (originally Akatzir) horde which settled in Crișul-Alb (White Khazaria). Identifying Avitohol with Attila only leads to confusion. Nevertheless, we should not imagine that Hungarian legends establishing the continuity from Attila are based on nothing. It is possible that Avitohol was a descendant of Attila's leader of the Akatzirs and that is why the two have been identified as one. Perhaps we should regard Hungarian legends about Attila as being references to the Kotzil dynasty rather than to a person. But for our purpose it is not necessary to think about the entire dynasty, it is only necessary for us to focus on the heirs to Avitohol himself. 

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). These Goatherds were the Romanized Dulovs of Carpathia, the original White Khazars who also supplied a leadership to the Bisseni. But from Ha-Sangari's descendants would arise the Black Khazar Noble house of Gyalu.