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{{Short description|King of Khazaria}}
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'''Busir''' or '''Bazir''' ({{cns|{{langx|el|Ibousiros Gliabanos}}, ''Busir Glavan'';|date=February 2022}} {{floruit}} 688–711) was the [[Khazar Khaganate|Khazar]] ''[[khagan]]'' in the late 7th century and early 8th century.

In 704 [[Justinian II]], who had been exiled at [[Chersonesos Taurica|Chersonesos]] for nine years, arrived at Busir's court. Busir, perhaps seeking to use him in his political maneuverings with the [[Byzantine Empire]], welcomed Justinian and gave him his sister in marriage (the woman's [[Khazar language|Khazar]] name is unknown, but she took the baptismal name of [[Theodora of Khazaria|Theodora]]). Busir provided the couple with funds and a house in [[Phanagoria]].

However, the winds of realpolitik soon shifted, and the new emperor, [[Tiberius III]], offered Busir a substantial bounty for his brother-in-law's head. Busir dispatched two agents, [[Balgitzin]] and [[Papatzys]], to kill Justinian, but the latter was warned by his wife, who bribed the assassins' slaves to learn the nature of their mission. Turning the tables on his would-be killers, Justinian murdered the pair after a banquet and fled Phanagoria by ship, seeking aid from Khan [[Tervel of Bulgaria]], with whose help he retook Constantinople.

Busir now attempted to make [[peace]] with Justinian, sending Theodora to [[Constantinople]]. He later became involved with, possibly instigating, a revolt by Justinian's officers in the [[Crimean Peninsula|Crimea]], which led ultimately to the crowning of [[Philippikos Bardanes]] as emperor and the death of Justinian in 711.

== References ==
*{{cite book|author=Arthur Koestler|title=The thirteenth tribe: the Khazar empire and its heritage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xWDAAAAIAAJ|date=1 July 1976|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-394-40284-0}}
*{{cite book|author=Kevin Alan Brook|title=The Jews of Khazaria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hEuIveNl9kcC&pg=PA255|date=27 September 2006|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-0302-0|pages=255–}}

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