Dengizich

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Dengizich (spelled Δεγγιζίχ in Priscus' account) was a son of Attila the Hun. The word "Dengizich" means little sea in old Turkic (*Däŋiziq)[1]. This is also said to be the root of the name Ghengis.

Some time during his reign, the Unogurs first crossed the river Volga (according to Zacharias Rhetor)[2]. Priscus is clearer saying that in 463AD a mixed Saragur, Urog and Unogur embassy asked Byzantium for an alliance having been dislodged by the Avars' drive towards the west[3].

Preceded by
Tuldila		 Hunnic rulers
458–469		 Succeeded by
Ernakh
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[edit] Reference

  1. ^ * Otto Maenchen-Helfen The World of the Huns
  2. ^ The Syrian compilation of Church Historian Zacharias Rhetor bishop of Mytilene
  3. ^ Priscus. Excerpta de legationibus. Ed. S. de Boor. Berolini, 1903, p. 586
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