<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Yep pretty intresting find, especially if you are intrested in Eastern Europe.</DIV>
<DIV>I found a slightly diffrent posting that I sent to some of the Eastern European lists that I am on</DIV>
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<DIV>Lord Wilhelm von Winkleried (OHSS)<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Ulf Gunnarsson <ulfie@cox.net><BR>To: namron@lists.ansteorra.org<BR>Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:51:41 AM<BR>Subject: [Namron] The empire before the Rus<BR><BR>Khazaria was a large empire that stretched from the Black Sea to the<BR>Caspian and north halfway across Russia. The growing power of the Rus<BR>in the 10th century eventually displaced it (yay Rus!), but for several<BR>hundred years there was an interesting nation that had a mixed religious<BR>acceptance and was thought of as a Jewish state.<BR><BR>Archaeologists believe they have found the capital, Itil. A brief and<BR>historically spotty account went out on AP and was picked up by some<BR>news sites, including:<BR><BR><A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/20/tech/main4463020.shtml"
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