The Kabars (Gr. Kabaroi) were a confederation of three Khazar tribes that rebelled against the authority of the Khazar khagan in the 9th century. The word itself is believed to derive from a Turkic word meaning "rebel." The Khazars were a Turkic semi-nomadic people from Central Asia who adopted Judaism. ... Khagan, alternatively spelled Chagan, Qaqan etc. ... This earthenware dish was made in 9th century Iraq. ... The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ...

The Kabars joined the proto-Magyar migration from the steppes of the Ukraine to the Danubian Steppes of modern Hungary, assisting the Magyars in conquering Pannonia. Many Kabars settled in the Bihar region of the later Kingdom of Hungary and Transylvania. Some people believe that the character recorded by Gesta Hungarorum as lord Marot and his grandson Menumorut, dux of Biharia, were of Kabar descent. One of the names on the Kievian Letter is "Kiabar", which may suggest that Kabars settled in Kiev as well. Magyars are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. ... The steppe of Western Kazakhstan in early spring In physical geography, steppe (from Slavic step) is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally reckoned as being dominated by tall grasses, while short grasses are said... The Pannonian plain is a large plain in central/south-eastern Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea (see below) dried out. ... Position of the Roman province of Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. ... Bihar is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. ... The Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Királyság) is the name of a multiethnic kingdom that existed in Central Europe from 1000 to 1918. ... Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania or Ardeal, Hungarian: Erdély, German: Siebenbürgen, Serbian: Трансилванија / Transilvanija, Bulgarian: Трансилвания (Transilvaniya) or Седмоградско (Sedmogradsko), Седмиградско (Sedmigradsko), Turkish: Erdel, Slovak: Sedmohradsko or Transylvánia, Polish: Siedmiogród) forms the western and central parts of Romania. ... There are two works with the name Gesta Hungarorum. ... Menumorut or Menumorout (translated into Hungarian as Mén-Marót) was the ruler of a dukedom based in Biharea, in the northwestern part of Transylvania (nowadays in Romania), in the 9th century. ... Dux is Latin for leader (from the verb ducere, to pull) and could refer to anyone who commanded two or more legions. ... Bihor (Hungarian: Bihar) is a county (judeÅ£) in North-Western Romania, Western Transylvania in the CriÅŸana region, with capital city at Oradea (population: 206,527). ... Introduction The Kievian Letter is an early 10th century letter written by a Khazarian Jewish community in Kiev. ...

The Kabars eventually assimilated into the general Magyar population, leaving scattered remains and some cultural and linguistic imprints. Some scholars believe that the Szekely are their descendents. The Székely (Szeklers in English, Secui in Romanian) are a Hungarian-speaking ethnic group, historically centered in the Transylvanian town of Székelyudvarhely, (now Odorheiu Secuiesc, Harghita county, Romania). ...

• You may also be looking for the Kabards, a modern ethnic group related to the Caucasian Avars of Dagestan; or the Ka-bar, a type of knife.