Bardores

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 Bardores were a Hun tribe in the decades after Attila’s death. Jordanes names them among the few peoples who still remained under the rule of Attila’s son Dengizich. The others were the Ultzinzures, the Angisciri and the Bittugures. Dengizich besieged Bassiana in Pannonia, and the Goths drove him off.^[1]^[2] Nothing else is known of them.

The name is compounded of var and -dor. The second element also occurs in the personal name Ultzindur and in Bayundur, the name of an Oghuz tribe.^[3]

References

^ Jordanes; Mierow 1915, § 272–273, p. 129–130
^ Golden 1992, p. 92
^ 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)