Kutrigurs
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The Kutrigurs (Kotrags/Kotzagerek/Kazarig) were a horde of equestrian nomads better known as the Bulgars that wandered the Eurasian plains during the dark ages. They came into existence when the Eurasian Avars conquered half of the Hunno-Bulgars. Those remaining free under Sandilch in the west retained the name Utigur, while those conquered by the Avars in the east became known as Kutrigurs. The conquest of the Kotzagereks by new arrivals led by three brothers from the Imaon Mountains in the 6th century is mentioned by Bar Hebraeus, as well as in the Chronicle of the late 12th century Jacobite patriarch of Antioch Michael the Syrian[1]. At this time they came to be dominated by clans related to the Göktürks. When their Khazar faction grew powerful, and won tribute from Batbayan, in the mid 7th century, a dissenting faction seems to have traveled to the upper Volga, while another seems to have fled from Sirmium south to the Pelagonian plain. Thereafter they disappear from history.
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- ^ В.Златарски, Известието на Михаил Сирийски за преселението на българите. Том V: Избрани произведения, София, 1972,с.52. (The notice of Michael the Syrian of the migration of Bulgars. Selected works, Volume 5, Sofia, 1972, page 52)
