Avars
Avars or Varkoni can refer to:
The earliest mention of the Hvariz in European history is by Priscus, who declared in 463 AD that a mixed Saragur, Urog and Unogur embassy asked Byzantium for an alliance, having been dislodged by Sabirs in 461 due to the Hvariz' drive towards the west.[1] The Caucasian Avars migrated from Hvarezam, to their present location south of Transcaucasian Iberia which was originally populated by the Alarodian Hurrians from Subartu.[2] The Y-Chromosomal J Haplogroups typical of Avar men are still common today in the area of ancient Subartu and Szekelyland. The modern Arab Encyclopaedia states that the Magyars originated in this area. The Avar invasion of the Caucasus resulted in the establishment of an Avar ruling dynasty in Sarir, a Moseian state in the Dagestani Highlands, where the Caucasian Avars now live. It is known that with the mediation of Sarosios in 567, the Göktürks requested Byzantium to distinguish the Avars of Pannonia as "Pseudo-Avars" as opposed to the true Avars of the east, who had come under Göktürk hegemony.[3]- ↑ Priscus. Excerpta de legationibus. Ed. S. de Boor. Berolini, 1903, p. 586
Also mentioned in the Syrian compilation of Church Historian Zacharias Rhetor bishop of Mytilene - ↑ "Ancient Khwarezm" (Moscow 1948), Sergei Pavlovich Tolstov (1907-1976)
- ↑ "Sixth Century Alania: between Byzantium, Sasanian Iran and the Turkic World" Agustí Alemany Vilamajo