Timeline (Judea on the Danube)

This timeline is to illustrate some key points in the history of "Judea on the Danube", as this alternate Hungary was poetically named (its actual name was Yisrael Khadash, "New Israel", but most people typically called the new country Israel). The timeline's original POD is lost somewhere in the wanderings of the mysterious Radhanites, Jewish traders who spanned Europe and Asia in the early to mid Middle Ages, but we can place it at c. 950 CE.

There is an interesting (but dubious) hypothesis out there, called the "Khazar hypothesis", that claims the OTL Khazars were the ancestors of the Ashkenazi Jews. However, genetic research appears to put Ashkenazi ancestry closer to Italy and the Levant than to the southeastern Ukraine, where the Khazar homeland was.

In the OTL 10th century, the Kievan 'Rus state defeated the Khazars, after the Byzantine-Khazar alliance that had been in place collapsed, and the 'Rus converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 986.

The POD occurs around 950, as the Khazar Khaganate falls to the 'Rus about 18 or 19 years early. (The dates are inexact because of poor OTL record-keeping.)