Sorosgi

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 Sorosgi were a people of Scythia. After the treaty of Margus, Priscus writes, Attila and Bleda set out to subdue the Scythian peoples. They made war on the Sorosgi.^[1] No other source mentions them.^[2] Some scholars suggest that they may have attacked the Hun heartland in 442 and so ended the war in the Balkans that year.^[3] They call the equation with the Saragurs not a good guess. It does not rule out that the name stands for the Ogurs.^[4]

References

^ Priscus; Müller 1851, fr. 1, p. 72
^ Thompson 1948, p. 75
^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 116
^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 439

Sources

Priscus

Literature

Karl Müller (ed.), Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, Bd. IV (darin: Menandri Protectoris fragmenta, griechisch mit lateinischer Übersetzung) (1851)
Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen, The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture (1973)
E. A. Thompson, A History of Attila and the Huns (1948)