Kutrigurs and Utigurs

Kutrigurs and Utigurs appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Russia and the Steppe (Europe) from c. 460 to 632 CE, a span of 172 years. Its people spoke Turkic languages (Gokturk, Uyghur, Seljuk, Ottoman, Kazakh, Tatar).

Oghuric Turkic tribes who filled the Pontic steppe after the Huns and raided the Balkans, until Avar and Turkic overlords subdued them and Kubrat united the Bulgars.

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Facts

Dates

c. 460 to 632 CE

Duration

172 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Russia and the Steppe, Europe

Language family

Turkic

Came from

• Hunnic Empire c. 370 to 469 CE

Became

• Old Great Bulgaria c. 632 to 668 CE

Events in Europe during its time

• 476 End of the Western Roman Empire
• 541 Plague of Justinian

Neighbours in Europe

• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE
• Hunnic Empire c. 370 to 469 CE
• Roman Hispania 218 BCE to 472 CE
• Roman Gaul 50 BCE to 486 CE
• Kingdom of Wessex c. 519 to 927 CE
• Kingdom of Mercia c. 527 to 918 CE
• Merovingian Kingdom 481 to 751 CE
• Avar Khaganate c. 567 to 822 CE
• Lombard Kingdom 568 to 774 CE
• Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo 507 to 711 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
• Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE, North and West Africa
• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
• Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE, South America
• Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Tiwanaku c. 400 to 1000 CE, South America
• Sasanian Empire 224 to 651 CE, Middle East
• Tang dynasty 618 to 907 CE, East Asia
• Gupta Empire c. 320 to 550 CE, South Asia
• First Turkic Khaganate 552 to 603 CE, Central and North Asia

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