Uar

The Uar or Warr were an Ugric people, that lived in the Aral Sea region during the 1st millennium CE.

A dominant ethnic group in Khwarezm, the Uar were the largest of three ethnic components that made up a confederation, known in Europe as the Hephthalites, and in Chinese chronics as Yanda (嚈 噠).

According to some scholars the Uar later merged with the Xionites,^[1][2] to form the Avars (or Varchonites) who later settled in Pannonia,^[3] and are often confused with the Caucasian Avars (an unrelated people).

Origin

The ancestors of Uar were the population of Post-Kelteminar stage of Suyurganovo culture, which according to most researchers ethnically by Ugrian tribes.^[4][5]

History

The Migration of Aorsen from Aral Sea and Ural to West

At the end of the 1st millennium b.c. Uar with Saka - were part of the Sarmatian tribe - Aorsen.^[6][7]

Etymology

The ethnonym Uar is usually considered to be derived from one or two sources:

• the Ugra region, and/or
• Warr, an Iranian word for "river".^[8]

References

1. Гулямов Я. Г., История орошения Хорезма с древнейших времен до наших дней, Ташкент, 1957.
2. Муратов Б.А. Аланы, кавары и хиониты в этногенезе башкир//Урал-Алтай: через века в будущее: Материалы Всероссийской научной конференции. Уфа, 27 июня 2008.
3. Гумилев Л.Н. Тысячелетие вокруг Каспия. Баку, Азернешр, 1991. C. 97-98.
4. Yablonsky L.T. Kelteminar craniology. Intra-group analysis//Soviet Ethnography, Moscow, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1985, No 2. pp. 127-140
5. Masson B.M. Древние цивилизации Востока и степные племена в свете данных археологии (in russian)
6. Tarn W. W. The Greek in Bactria and India. Cambridge, 1951.
7. Vernadsky G. A History of Russia (Yale Press) ISBN 0-300-00247-5, Volume 1. Ancient Russia, 1943.
8. Гумилев Л.Н. Тысячелетие вокруг Каспия. Баку, Азернешр, 1991. C. 97-98.