Zabender

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 Zabender were a people whom Theophylact Simocatta names directly after the Tarniach and the Kotzager. These two peoples fled from the Göktürks to the Avars.^[1] It was said, he writes, that the Zabender also came from the race of the Var and Chunni.^[1] He does not say in plain words that they too joined the Avars.

The Zabender, with the Tarniach and the Kotzager, are counted among the peoples of Var-Hun origin. All three then went over to the Avars in the flight of the Tarniach and Kotzager.^[2]

References

^ a b 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)