Kotzager

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 Kotzager were a people who fled from the Göktürks into Europe, together with the Tarniach. They joined the followers of the khan of the Avars.^[1] Theophylact Simocatta says that they too came from the Var and Chunni.^[1] The Avars gained ten thousand men by the flight.^[1]

Some scholars identify the Kotzager with the Kutrigurs, the people of the steppe west of the Don.^[2] Others count them, with the Tarniach and probably the Zabender, among the peoples of Var-Hun origin.^[3] Their flight is told in the flight of the Tarniach and Kotzager.

References

^ a b c Theophylact Simocatta; Whitby 1986, p. 191
^ Marquart 1903, p. 504
^ Golden 1992, p. 109,111

Sources

Theophylact Simocatta

Literature

Michael Whitby, Mary Whitby (trans.), The History of Theophylact Simocatta (1986)
Peter B. Golden, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (1992)
Josef Marquart, Osteuropäische und ostasiatische Streifzüge (1903)