A HISTORY OF THE WHITE RACE
Chapter 31 : The Fourth Great Race War -
Bulgars, Avars, Magyars and Khazars
The lands making up western and southern Russia, Asia Minor (Turkey)
and the southeastern Balkans were to be the scene of some of the most
dramatic racial conflicts between various tribes of Europeans on the
one hand, and various Asiatic, Mongol, and mixed race Muslim armies on
the other.
These wars started around 550 AD, a century after the crushing of the
Mongolian Hunnish invasion of Europe. They only finally stopped with
the defeat of new Asian invaders some 400 years later, with the defeat
of an Asiatic alliance known as the Magyars, in Bavaria in 954 AD.
This massive struggle against Asian and Mongolian hordes can rightly be
grouped into one heading, even though different players acted in the
drama.
If these combined Asian invaders had not been turned back, then it
would most certainly have given the non-White Moorish invasion in
Spain, which took place in the same time span, a far better chance of
success. The White race might have been exterminated between the Asians
and the Moors - but it was not.
Above: Magyars raiding a White settlement. The Magyars were an Asiatic
race who burst over the Danube river at the close of the 10th Century,
ravaging wide areas of central Europe. Although they were to be
ultimately driven out, a small number of their genes remained behind in
the areas they subjugated - the origin of the small number of slightly
Asiatic looking southern Slavs. This process was by no means complete,
and of course huge numbers of Slavs retain the characteristics of their
Indo-European forebears. Nonetheless, the impact of the Magyars was so
great that in the Hungarian language to this day, the name for Hungary
and Hungarian is still Magyar - although the original Asiatic Magyars
have long since vanished.
RUSSIA - BULGARS FROM THE SEA OF AZOV
In the year 372 AD, the easternmost White peoples in what is today
Russia were the Sarmatians, or Alans. This group was closely related to
the ancient Medes, Persians and Aryans, all of whom had penetrated
southwards and had slowly become mixed with the darker inhabitants of
the regions they had conquered.
The Alans were also the last Indo-European tribe to emerge from the
ancestral Nordic homeland between the Caspian and Black seas. The Alans
had for a time ruled a larger part of modern day Russia, but had been
forced to reduce the area under their control by the eastward invasions
of the Ostrogoths, who had left northern Europe in a second migratory
wave which had also pushed the Slavs eastward.
For more than a century, the Ostrogoths mixed with the Alans and the
Slavs, and as they were all originally of the same Nordic stock,
retained their racial characteristics to the greatest degree.
The Alans and Ostrogoths were then decimated before the Asiatic Hunnish
invasion, with the White survivors fleeing both south and west.
After the Germans had warded off the Hunnish invasion in 454 AD, the
Huns retreated to the area around the Sea of Azov, where in the course
of time they acquired a new name - the Bulgars.
Above: Magyar raiders set fire to a German homestead. The Magyars were
eventually defeated, but small traces of their gene pool remain in a
minority of the Slavic population today. This is particularly evident
in modern southeastern Russia.
THE AVARS - ASIATIC INVASION IN MID-16TH CENTURY
In the middle of the sixth century, a new wave of Asiatics, the Avars -
possibly descendants of the Bulgars - swept into Europe from the east.
They reconquered the Slavs as they proceeded west, and were the cause
of the movement of many Indo-European tribes westwards, including the
Lombards who moved into Italy.
The Avars were only finally halted by the Franks in one of the
increasing number of openly racial wars which had followed the collapse
of the Western Roman Empire.
Remnants of the Avars however wreaked havoc on central Europe, on
German and Slav alike. They had occupied large areas of present day
eastern Europe - Hungary, Russia to the Volga river and a strip of
territory reaching right up to the Baltic sea. However, the further
west the Avars progressed, the more thinly they became spread.
Vastly outnumbered by the subjugated Slavs, it was only a matter of
time before they lost control of their empire. By the year 626 AD, an
Avar assault on Constantinople had been repulsed and most of the Slavic
nations had risen up in rebellion and overthrown the Asiatic Avars.
EXTERMINATION BY THE SWORD AND ABSORPTION
The Avars were overthrown either through their physical expulsion, or
in some cases, their biological absorption - again contributing to the
"Slavic" look which can still be found amongst certain groups of Slavs.
This is not to say that all present day Slavs are of mixed ancestry -
huge numbers are not - but what is regarded as the typically "Slavic"
look has its roots in the absorption of the various Asiatic invaders.
As any traveler to Eastern Europe or Russia can vouch, the "Slavic"
look is not nearly as common as is often believed, and confined mainly
to the southeastern reaches of Russia itself.
KHAZARS - FORCE BULGARS INTO BULGARIA
In 576 AD, a new force invaded from the east - a mixed race grouping
calling themselves Khazars, occupied territory on the northwestern
shore of the Caspian Sea in southern Russia.
Originally from Asia Minor (Turkey), the Khazars were the product of
the integration process which had taken place in the Middle and Near
East over a process of centuries. Made up of Old European, Semitic and
Mongolian elements, the Khazars physically closely resembled many other
peoples in that region.
The Khazars began to expand their territory westwards, occupying the
land east of the Dniester River by 650 AD. In this process they drove
the Bulgar Huns from the territory around the Sea of Azov, forcing them
on into modern Bulgaria which they ruled for about 150 years and which
bears their name to this day.
At this stage then there were three major groupings of Mongols and
mixed race Asiatics in eastern Europe - the Bulgar Huns; the Avars; and
the Khazars. To this group was added remnants of a Mongoloid people who
had originally settled in Finland (and whose descendants to this day
form part of the Lapp people in that country) but who were in part
driven south by the Indo-European invaders over the centuries.
Above: A bust of a Khazar warrior circa 800 - 1000 AD. This is a
remarkably accurate statue, with the Asiatic influence being
particularly marked with the eye shape and the protruding lower lip.
MAGYARS
Three of these groupings - the Khazars, the Avars, and the Finno-Ugric
- then formed what was at first an informal alliance, which was later
formalized as these groups began to physically mix with each other.
Calling themselves Magyars, this confederation of Mongoloid/Asiatic
tribes began moving westwards in the 8th Century, setting the stage for
yet another racial struggle between White Europeans and Asiatic and
mixed race invaders from the east.
KHAZARS AND JUDAISM
The Khazars themselves had also undergone a transformation during this
period. After wandering aimlessly for centuries, waves of Jewish
Semites who had fled north from Palestine following the Roman-Jewish
Wars and Diaspora of 70 AD, finally reached southern Russia around the
beginning of the 7th Century. At the precise time of their arrival, the
Khazar king was looking for a religion to adopt as the formal Khazar
belief: Judaism was decided upon.
This did not represent a radical racial sea change for the Semitic Jews
- they, like virtually all the peoples who inhabited the Middle East
over the previous centuries, were themselves mixes of original Old
European, Semitic, Arabic and Asian peoples. The Khazars themselves
were not that different, perhaps a little lighter than the original
Semites, but that was all. In this way the core of what was to become
the European Jews was formed - the basis of the Ashkenazim.
KHAZAR SLAVE TRADERS - ORIGIN OF THE WORD SLAVE
Even before their conversion to Judaism, the Khazars, like the Huns and
other Asiatics, were active slave traders. The Slavs however bore the
brunt of the Khazar slave catching expeditions - so much so that the
word slave was to derive from the word Slav - and with the Khazar
conversion to Judaism, an association of Judaism with slave trade in
the east became firmly established. This was the origin of the
association of Jews with slave trading - an allegation which had some
basis in fact at this stage in history.
THE NORSEMEN DEFEAT THE MAGYARS
In the midst of the rise of Magyars, a new Nordic power entered the
fray - the Norsemen. As early as the 6th Century, these tall blond
Germanic tribesmen, emerging from Denmark and southern Scandinavia, had
started to establish settlements along the Baltic Sea and had sent
expeditions into central Russia up the western Dvina River.
By the end of the 8th Century the Norsemen had built fortified
settlements at Novgorod and Kiev and had set up smaller trading posts
further down south, into Khazar territory. In short order they were at
war with the emerging Magyars. The Asiatics were defeated by the Nordic
Norsemen, and the entire area around the lower Don River became known
as Great Sweden as a result of the dominance and immigration into the
area by Norsemen and their families.
The Norsemen, who called themselves Varangers, mixed with the
Indo-European remnants in western Russia, the Alans and parts of the
original Slavs. The Alans had originally called themselves the As, and
a leading clan amongst them was known as the Rukhs-As (the "shining" or
"leading" Alans). From this developed a tribal name, the Rus. After a
while the Norsemen also began taking on the customs of these original
Indo-Europeans, eventually calling themselves the Rus. It is from this
time that the word Russia originated.
VIKINGS AND THE BIRTH OF RUSSIA - 856 AD
The Khazars then attacked the Rus without warning. Initially taken
aback by the ferocity of the Khazar attack, the Rus called for
re-enforcements from Scandinavia. The call was answered by Rurik, ruler
of southern Jutland and Friesland in Denmark, who set off for the
steppes of Russia with an army, arriving in 856 AD. It is from this
date that the Russians formally count the history of their country as
having started.
Rurik had already established a reputation as an adventurer, warrior
and pirate - in the West he would have been called a Viking (as indeed
many of his compatriots who went west on their forays, were called).
MAGYAR SETBACK
In the interim, the Magyar alliance had suffered a grievous setback: in
central Europe the Frankish King Charlemagne, had utterly destroyed the
Avars, rooting them out of their stronghold in eastern Austria and
Hungary, managing in the process to kill off most of them. Charlemagne
established a buffer state in central Europe to ward off further
incursions (the Ostmark, or 'Eastern March' - Austria) and extended
Frankish protection over the areas now known as Bohemia, Moravia,
Austria and Croatia.
This defeat, combined with arrival of yet more Norsemen under Rurik,
caused the Magyars to desist from further attacks on the Indo-Europeans
for the time being. Instead, spurred on by the arrival of yet another
non-White tribe from Turkey, the Magyars turned on the Bulgar Huns and
in 893 seized their territories in modern day Bulgaria and Hungary.
RUS EXPANSION UNDER RURIK AND OLEG
Rurik had in the interim become king of the city Novrogod, and led the
emerging Rus successfully until his death in 879. His successor, the
Norwegian born Oleg, united the principalities of Novrogod and Kiev and
then started expanding the territory under the control of the Rus.
DESTRUCTION OF THE KHAZARS - 965 AD
In 964 AD, Oleg's grandson, Svyatoslav, became ruler of the Rus. A
fierce warrior who adhered strictly to his Scandinavian upbringing -
even refusing to become a Christian after his mother had converted -
Svyatoslav set as his first task the destruction of the Jewish Khazar
empire in the south.
In 965, the Rus army under Svyatoslav, crashed through the Khazar
borders and utterly defeated the Jewish slave trading empire forever.
The Khazars who survived this great assault were scattered throughout
the region, with many moving west into what became western Russia and
Poland. There they re-established Jewish communities and absorbed some
Nordic elements (mainly through marrying Jewish women to non-Jewish
men; Jewish law dictating that only persons born of a Jewish mother can
be classified as a Jew), creating the basic stock of today's modern
European Jews, known as the Ashkenazim.
BULGARS CRUSHED - SVYATOSLAV KILLED
Not content with smashing the Khazars, Svyatoslav then turned his
attention to the remaining Bulgar Huns along the Danube River, and in
967, he decisively defeated them, occupying large areas of Bulgaria in
the process. He would have finished off the Bulgar Huns, but was forced
to return to Kiev when that city was attacked by an invasion of Turks
called the Patzinaks (a mixed race tribe forming part of a Islamic
Turkish invasion all along the southeastern borders of Europe,
concentrated on Constantinople). Svyatoslav saved Kiev, but in a follow
up operation against the Patzinak Turks in 972, he was killed in
battle.
In 1068, new waves of Muslim invaders, the Cumans, occupied the Crimean
peninsula while pushing the Patzinaks westwards into the Balkans. In
the south, the Eastern Roman Empire was on its last legs, having lost
the decisive battle of Manzikert to another group of invading Muslims,
the Seljuks, in 1071. This allowed the Seljuks to occupy large parts of
western Turkey and prepare the way for the final assault on
Constantinople.
MAGYAR ASSAULT ON WESTERN EUROPE
In central Europe, the Magyars started moving out from their base in
Hungary, which they had earlier seized from the Bulgar Huns. They
launched raiding parties as far afield as Bremen in Germany, Orleans in
France and Constantinople, raping, pillaging, looting and destroying
where they went. In 954, a Magyar raiding party consisting of an
estimated 100,000 soldiers crossed Bavaria and the Rhine River,
penetrating France as far as Rhiems and Burgundy, then crossing the
Alps to pillage Lombardy in Italy.
MAGYARS CRUSHED: THE BATTLE OF LECHFELD
Left: The White victor over the Magyars, Otto I. Called Otto the Great,
he was crowned 'Holy Roman Emperor' in 962 AD. His name will always be
remembered as the leader of the great White victory at the Battle of
Lechfeld, where the Asiatic Magyars were crushed. The victory was so
complete that the Magyars were never again to threaten Europe. From a
statue in Magdeburg.
The following year, another Magyar army invaded Bavaria and besieged
the town of Augsburg, northwest of modern day Munich. This time however
the Bavarians were prepared. The Saxon king, Otto I, counter attacked
with a specially prepared army and annihilated the Magyars in the
Battle of Lechfeld. Contemporary accounts have it that the Saxons slew
retreating Magyars for three days after the battle. Whether this is
true or not, the fact remains that after the Battle of Lechfeld, the
Magyars were never again to threaten Europe.
The defeat and dissolution of the Magyars marks the end of the second
great Asian invasion - the next would occur in 1221, when an even more
cruel Mongol leader would establish a reign of terror in eastern and
central Europe so terrible his name is still a byword for tyranny today
- Genghis Khan.
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