TheSaragurs orSaraguri (Greek:Σαράγουροι,Syriac:s.r.w.r.g.wr,^[1] Šarağurs) were aTurkic^[2] nomadic tribe mentioned in the 5th and 6th centuries. They may be the Sulujie (蘇路羯,suoluo-kjɐt) mentioned in the ChineseBook of Sui.^[3] They originated fromWestern Siberia and theKazakh steppes, from where they were displaced north of theCaucasus by theSabirs.^[4]

Around 463 AD, theAkatziri and other tribes that had been part of the Hunnic union were attacked by the Saragurs, one of the first Oghur tribes that entered thePontic–Caspian steppe as the result of migrations set off in Inner Asia by theUar attacking theKidara (a sub-group of theXiyon).^[5] The Akatziri had lived north of the Black Sea, west ofCrimea.^[6] According toPriscus, in 463Ernakh andDengizich sent the representatives of Saragurs, Oghurs (or Urogi,^[6] perhaps a Byzantine error forUyghurs^[7]) andOnogurs to the Emperor in Constantinople,^[8] and explained they had been driven out of their homeland by theSabirs, who had been attacked by theAvars in Inner Asia.^[9][10] In 469, the Saragurs requested and received Roman protection.^[11] In the late 500s, the Saragurs,Kutrigurs,Utigurs andOnogurs held part of the steppe north of theBlack Sea.^[12] In 555,Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor mentions the Saragurs as one of thirteen nomadic tribes north ofCaucasus, however, it is uncertain if the tribe still existed at this time.^[13] Between 630 and 635,Khan Kubrat managed to unite theOnogurBulgars with the tribes of theKutrigurs andUtigurs, and probably the Saragurs, under a single rule, creating a powerful confederation which was referred to by themedieval authors inWestern Europe asOld Great Bulgaria,^[14] orPatria Onoguria. According to some scholars, it is more correctly called the Onogundur-Bulgar Empire.^[15]

Saraγur or Šara Oγur means "yellow" or "white," and can even be translated as "western".^[16]

• Onogurs

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• Extinct Turkic peoples

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