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Lakz is a land and a fortress in the high Caucasus. Marwan ibn Muhammad settled a group of the Khazars on its plain, between al-Samur and al-Shabran. ¹

The lord of the fortress had refused to pay the tribute, and went out intending to reach the king of the Khazars, but a shepherd killed him with an arrow without knowing who he was. Marwan made peace with the people of Lakz for twenty thousand medimnoi, to be carried to the granary of the gate, and appointed over them Khashram al-Sulami. ¹

It is connected with Marwan's campaign in the Caucasus.

The Khazars

The Khazars in al-Baladhuri are the people beyond the Caucasus whose great king bears the title Khaqan; Salman ibn Rabi'a warred on them until slain at Balanjar, and they surged across the Rass in al-Jarrah's day until he met and fell fighting them near Ardabil; when their great king learned the numbers Marwan ibn Muhammad trod into his lands it filled him with dread, and he sent summoning him to Islam or war — Marwan answering 'I accept Islam', whereupon the Khaqan showed forth Islam, Marwan compounding with him confirming his kingdom, and settled a body of them between al-Samur and al-Shabiran in the Lakz plain; and Yazid ibn Asid married into their king's house at al-Mansur's command, the Khaqan's daughter bearing him a son who died while she died in her lying-in.

Al-Lakz

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