Angisciri

Rouran epoch Göktürk epoch Uyghur epoch Kirghiz epoch

Rouran First Göktürk Tang rule Second Göktürk Uyghur Kirghiz Huns Western Göktürk Türgesh Karluk Khazar

Rouran 400–554
First Göktürk 552–630
Tang rule 630–682
Second Göktürk 682–744
Uyghur 744–840
Kirghiz 840–924
Huns 370–469
Western Göktürk 552–659
Türgesh 699–766
Karluk 766–800
Khazar 650–969

The Angisciri were one of four peoples that Jordanes names among the last followers of Attila’s son Dengizich. The other three are the Ultzinzures, the Bittugures and the Bardores. These followers were with Dengizich when he besieged Bassiana in Pannonia. The Goths drove him off.^[1]^[2] The name occurs nowhere else.^[3]

Some scholars took the name to be Germanic, the “grassland Sciri”. Others hold that the name is more likely Turkic, because the other three peoples have Turkic names. Scribes may have assimilated an unfamiliar name to that of the Sciri. On this view Angis- recalls the Turkic word for field, so that the name might be Angisgiri.^[3]

References

^ Jordanes; Mierow 1915, § 272–273, p. 129–130
^ Golden 1992, p. 92
^ a b Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 439

Sources

Jordanes (after Priscus and Ammianus Marcellinus)

Literature

Charles Christopher Mierow, The Gothic History of Jordanes in English Version, with an Introduction and a Commentary (1915)
Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen, The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture (1973)
Peter B. Golden, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (1992)