Irbis (Khazar)
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Irbis (fl. 650 or 652)[1] was according to a number of Russian sources the founder of the Khazar Khaganate.[2] The Khazars traced their origin to the Turkic Ashina clan who also founded the Onok Khaganate and Turkic Khaganate in Central Asia.[3]
Peter Golden notes that Chinese and Arabic reports are almost identical, making the connection a strong one, and conjectures that the Khazar leader may have been Irbis Seguy, who lost power or was killed around 651.[4]
