Javishgar

Javishgar - in the late Khazar Kaganate , according to the Yakut Dictionary , the fourth most important person of "royal dignity." Replaced kundur-hakan , who, in turn, could replace the king , and he - the Great Hagan . This message goes back to the work of Ibn Fadlan ( 922 ) and is the only case when the Khazar political hierarchy is presented in the form of a tetrarchy. In other sources, analogues of this title is not fixed. Similar in sound to the Chaushiar , the gatekeeper in Ottoman Turkey . In the Karaite language, javyshgyr means observer, overseer, boss.