Tarniach

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 Tarniach were a people who fled from the Göktürks into Europe together with the Kotzager. They joined the followers of the khan of the Avars.^[1] Theophylact Simocatta says that they came from the Var and Chunni. In his account, the Avars of Europe also came from this stock.^[1] The force that the Avars gained by this flight was reckoned at ten thousand.^[1]

Some scholars take the Tarniach, the Kotzager and probably the Zabender for peoples of Var-Hun origin.^[2] The date of the flight of the Tarniach and Kotzager is disputed. One dating sets it in 582, with the end of the revolt of Turum. A second dating sets it in 598.

References

^ a b c Theophylact Simocatta; Whitby 1986, p. 191
^ 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)