Akatziroi

The Akatziroi were probably one of the Turkic tribes in the Hunnish tribal confederacy.^[1] The Maeotian Akatziroi were ruled by a king called Karadach or Karidachus, and appear in the account of Priscus who suggested that the name refers to the Thraco-Dacian tribe of the Agathyrsi. While there may be some basis to this, any parallels with the Kazarigs/Kotrags/Kutrigurs on the other hand is purely coincidental.

The 1897 and 1911 editions of Encyclopædia Britannica speculated that the Akatziroi were in fact a component in the early make up of the Khazars, hypothesizing that their name derives from the Turkic "Ak-Khazar", or "White Khazar", the name of the group of tribes composing the warrior aristocracy of the Khazar nation.

References

1. Denis Sinor, The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, "The peoples of the south Russian steppes" by Peter B. Golden, 1990, pp. 256-284