Cities of Khazaria. Kromos Estatium
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The khazar cities here include not only those cities that were built by the khazar architects, but also those that were built before the arrival of the khazars, were used by the khazars for their needs and tasks for a long time.
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Samvatas in Kiev **
Also Sambat. Sambatas. Shanvatos.
It was a jewish-khazar city, enclosed in the city of Kiev, where both jews and khazar jews of the merchant Guild lived.
Among the karaites, the word «san» or «shan» means a good name, honor, glory, dignity, and the word «vatys» means a fight. Thus, it turns out that Samvatas means the city of glorious victory, the city of good fighters, the Upper Outpost.
In the middle of the 10th century, Sambatas, by which the chronicler understood Vyshgorod, was the residence of Princess Olga, ruler of Rus at a time when Svyatoslav was still earning military glory as a young man.
According to chronicles from the middle of the 10th century, slavs from Novgorod, Smolensk, Lyubech, Chernigov, and Vyshgorod converge in the khazar Fortress of Kiev, called Samvatas, to conclude trade agreements.
This fortified settlement, gorodets in the city, was founded by khazar jews at the end of the 8th century with the help of jews who fled from Persia and Byzantium. And they called it Sambat, like Shabbat, Saturday, or something?
This jewish-khazar name of the settlement in Kiev, which the jews called both a city and a Fortress, belonged to the Khaganate for a certain time, when a large jewish-khazar community lived in Kiev at that time.
Apparently, the jewish khazars named their area of settlement in Kiev Samvatas, linking this naming with the legend of the mythical Sambation river, that is, the Sabbath river, beyond which the khazars, according to medieval authors, lived.
When the lost brethren of the jews cross the Sambathion and come to take revenge on those who oppress them, the messianic liberation, that is, geulla, will begin.
The Sambation river was localized in various places, including in the Northern Black sea region. Constantine Porphyrogenitus mentions a Fortress in the city of Kioawa, called Samvatas by its inhabitants of jewish origin.
It should be borne in mind that the jews, when describing their places of residence, always somewhat exaggerated the importance of their community in the affairs of the entire city. However, archaeology indicates that the territory attributed to the khazar site in Kiev, there are traces of them in the form of products of the saltov-mayatsk culture, which the jews successfully traded in Kiev.
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