Ultzinzures

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 Ultzinzures were a Hun tribe on the lower Danube in the decades after Attila’s death. Jordanes names them first among the few peoples who still remained under the rule of Attila’s son Dengizich. The others were the Angisciri, the Bittugures and the Bardores. Dengizich besieged Bassiana in Pannonia, and the Goths drove him off.^[1] The Ultzinzures lived between the rivers Utus and Almus in Dacia Ripensis.^[2] The historian Agathias, writing in the sixth century, says that the Ultizuri and the Burugundi were well known and considered brave until the reign of the emperor Leo. He adds that they had since disappeared.^[3]^[4]

The name is composed of Ultin and the title chur. It is probably Turkish.^[5] Some scholars hold that the tribe was named after Ultzindur, the kinsman of Attila’s sons. Ultzindur held fortresses on the Danube after the Nedao.^[6]

References

^ Jordanes; Mierow 1915, § 272–273, p. 129–130
^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 164
^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 453
^ Golden 1992, p. 98
^ Maenchen-Helfen 1973, p. 438
^ Thompson 1948, p. 182–183

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)
E. A. Thompson, A History of Attila and the Huns (1948)
Peter B. Golden, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (1992)