Sabir people

The Sabirs were a late Roman people, who settled in the Caspian Depression prior to the arrival of the Avars.

The Sabirs seem to have been a Turkic people, possibly with hunnischem origin, but much remains uncertain. They lived mainly in the Pontic steppe, which was bounded on the east by the Caspian Sea to the west by the Black Sea and the south by the Caucasus.

Around the middle of the 5th century they beat several neighboring tribes, including the Onogurs. The Sabirs were partly allied with the Persian Sassanids partly with the Oströmern. In the early 6th century (c. 515) they advanced into the Caucasus area and on to Asia Minor. In the 570er years they suffer a defeat against the Eastern Romans and partly relocated. Shortly thereafter, the remains of Sabirs were probably first conquered by the Avars and after. Kok - Turks of the They disappeared at least from the Byzantine history records. However Sevordik and Savardija mentioned in Armenian and Arabic sources, which should be identical to the Sabirs.

Byzantine documents describe the Sabirs usually as Sabiroi. The Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, however, writes in his administrando imperio that a Hungarian delegation visiting his court in the 10th century, he reported that the Tourkoi ( the Byzantine name of the Magyars ) " sabartoi asphaloi " (generally, this is usually with strong / staunch / dependable Sabirs translated) would be called. In addition, they would send still regularly embassies to those who had remained in the Caucasus near the Persian frontier.

It is sometimes assumed that a strain or rest of the Sabirs called Suaren settled on the middle Volga, where they later merged with Volga Bulgars. In fact, one of the earlier cities of the Volga Bulgars Suar or Suwar was called. Today, some Chuvash historians assume that their nation in part goes back to the Sabirs.

Some Russian historians, among others, Lev Gumilev believe that the Slavic tribe of the Sewerjanen, residents of Kievan Rus and later called by Russia and Ukraine, the ethnic group could be Sewrjuki descendants of Sabirs. Gumilev thereby lifting out that the Sewrjuki differed from the other Russians and Ukrainians to the 17th century and that there are still places available with ajar because names such as Novgorod - Seversky. Gumilev 's true here agree with those who assume that the Sabirs were part of the Huns, but not descended from the Turkic area, but rather attributable to the Ugrians were ( partly because of the strong links to the Hungarians ).