Saragurs
The Saragurs or Saraguri was a Eurasian Oghur nomadic tribe mentioned in the 5th and 6th centuries. They may be the Sulujie mentioned in the Chinese Book of Sui. They originated from Western Siberia and the Kazakh steppes, from where they were displaced north of the Caucasus by the Sabirs.
Around 463 AD, the Akatziri and other tribes that had been part of the Hunnic union were attacked by the Saragurs, one of the first Oghur tribes that entered the Pontic-Caspian steppe as the result of migrations set off in Inner Asia by the Hephthalite Uar attacking the Kidarite Xiyon. The Akatziri had lived north of the Black Sea, west of Crimea. According to Priscus, in 463 Ernakh and Dengizich sent the representatives of Saragurs, Oghurs and Onogurs came to the Emperor in Constantinople, and explained they had been driven out of their homeland by the Sabirs, who had been attacked by the Avars in Inner Asia. In 469, the Saragurs requested and received Roman protection. In the late 500s, the Saragurs, Kutrigurs, Utigurs and Onogurs held part of the steppe north of the Black Sea. In 555, Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor mentions the Saragurs as one of thirteen nomadic tribes north of Caucasus, however, it is uncertain if the tribe still existed at this time.
Saraγur or Šara Oγur means "yellow" or "white," and can even be translated as "western".
