Boisci

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 Boisci were a people on the lower Danube in the fifth century. Priscus names them among the peoples, together with the Amilzuri, Itimari and Tounsoures, on whom the Hun king Rua meant to make war. These peoples had fled to the Romans and joined their alliance.^[1] Jordanes counts the Boisci among the peoples on the shore of Scythia. According to him, the Huns overran these peoples as soon as they had crossed the Maeotic marshes.^[2] Nothing else is known about them.^[3]

Some scholars take the name as the “little Boii”, a Celtic people. They hold that a confederacy of Hunnic, Celtic and other tribes existed north of the Black Sea before the Huns of Attila’s house came.^[4] Others link the name with the Celtic Boii.^[3]

References

^ Priscus; Müller 1851, fr. 1, p. 71
^ Jordanes; Mierow 1915, § 126, p. 86
^ a b Golden 1992, p. 87
^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 438, 453–454

Sources

Priscus
Jordanes (after Priscus and Ammianus Marcellinus)

Literature

Karl Müller (ed.), Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, Bd. IV (darin: Menandri Protectoris fragmenta, griechisch mit lateinischer Übersetzung) (1851)
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)