The Saragurs or Saraguri (Greek: Σαράγουροι, Syriac: s.r.w.r.g.wr,[1] Šarağurs) were a Turkic[2] nomadic tribe mentioned in the 5th and 6th centuries.
[3] They originated from Western Siberia and the Kazakh steppes, from where they were displaced north of the Caucasus by the Sabirs.
[6] According to Priscus, in 463 Ernakh and Dengizich sent the representatives of Saragurs, Oghurs (or Urogi,[6] perhaps a Byzantine error for Uyghurs[7]) and Onogurs to the Emperor in Constantinople,[8] and explained they had been driven out of their homeland by the Sabirs, who had been attacked by the Avars in Inner Asia.
[11] In the late 500s, the Saragurs, Kutrigurs, Utigurs and Onogurs held part of the steppe north of the Black Sea.
[13] Between 630 and 635, Khan Kubrat managed to unite the Onogur Bulgars with the tribes of the Kutrigurs and Utigurs, and probably the Saragurs, under a single rule, creating a powerful confederation which was referred to by the medieval authors in Western Europe as Old Great Bulgaria,[14] or Patria Onoguria.