>>508422129 (OP)I know. I found out in my researches.
What happened was the Romans chased every one of the revolting Jews they could all the way out of their sphere of control. Jews fled toward Khazaria, eventually reaching there after alternately taking refuge with their many cousins in the civilizations of the area at the time and then fleeing after being ejected, through places like (modern day) Turkey, Armenia, and Georgia, finally coming around and settling in the area north of the Crimea. Romans chased them all the way up there.
There are strings of ruined forts, signs of massive siege engines being used on places, vitrification with Greek fire, etc. Then later, the Rus kicked them out of there and they fled to the west.
Simple as. Romans sealed Jerusalem off from the time of the suppression of the second big Jewish revolt, nobody could enter but the legion posted there to keep people out. Any Jew caught within sight of Jerusalem was summarily executed. They'd check your penis. It stayed sealed until Constantine's mother came with another legion to dig it up, hundreds of years later. Where'd all the Jews go? Well, they ran away.
They became the Khazarians. I have even traced back the origin of the word, ironically these Khazarians were known as Ghazars for a long time. Ghazars first appeared in Armenia around 150-200 AD. They got chased further north progressively, finally settling in "Khazaria," usurping the dynasty there (which we only know existed historically from found coins), and turning the place into a bandit kingdom. Put two and two together and you have one of the greatest ironies. Sound change rule + all the other evidence shows their origin. And explains why they have distinct DNA markers shared with other very distant populations of Jews.
I suspected so much after reading about the Jewish Wars, but when I heard about the Ghazars I knew I had my proofs.
