Sakatin

Sakatin (на ПРОЗА.РУ)

The city of khazars, where the karaite community lived, as reported by M. Aga. However, he does not disclose how they got there and when.

From the analysis of chronicle historical data, it can be concluded that this city was the seat of the descendants of the saks, the co-founders of Scythia. Most likely, it was located on one of the trade routes on the territory of Khazaria east of the Volga. A little later, the saks also joined the balkhs, some of whom made up Khazaria.

The name of the city was formed, apparently, from the name of the main ethnic group that lived here - the saks, the second part may come from the word «tau», which means a valley, a flat place among the balkhs.

It can be assumed that in the 9th century, settlers moved through Sakatin, who reached the left bank of the Dnieper, where they took part in the life of the city of Sakov, founded by their ancestors in the time of Scythia.

The descendants of the saks arrived on the territory of Khazaria after its destruction by Rus and the first point of their movement was Sakatin, which can be placed somewhere on the river bank halfway between the Ural and Volga rivers.

It was mainly a yurt-type town, which played the role of a military and commercial base for the oguzs, who carried out ethnic expansion in the lower Volga in the 11th century.

In the mid-13th century, this military transport road was interrupted by the invasion of the Mongol hordes.

The researchers attribute the city Skatin and karaites with Tokhtamysh, who supported them in the 14th century.

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