Kevin Alan Brook. CHUFUT - KALE Another settlement in the Khazar realm was the cave town of Chufut - Kale , located south of Eski - Kermen and present - day Simferopol , and northeast of Mangup . It is near the city of Bakhchisarai ...

... Chufut - Kale ( or , very rarely , in the Karaite manner , Kale ) , i.e. , the " Jews ' Castle . " The only point of disagreement was the spelling of this place name ; it is possible to come across such variants as Chufudkalesi , DsChufut - ...

... Chufut- Kale ( a survey of sources and historiography ) . " In Problemy istorii " peshchernykh gorodov v Krymu " , edited by Yu . M. Mogarichev , 151-63 . Simferopol , 1992. ] 3473 БОГДАНОВА , Н. А. , и И. И. Лобода . Бахчисарайский ...

Their enigmatic past still engenders debate and discussion: their supposed descendancy from the ancient Judeans, their association with the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel and the nomadic Khazars, and the heated controversy surrounding their ...