Tyranx (died 528)[1] was a Hun general and sub-king, or king of a Hunnish tribe, fighting for the Sasanian Empire.

Biography

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He was a king of a section of the Huns. In the late 520s, he became an ally of Persian king Kavad I. He fought for him against the queen of fellow Hunnish tribe Sabirs, a woman named Boa (Boarez/Boarek),[2] the widow of Balaq.[3][4] As he was marching with fellow Hun king Glom to the aid of the Persians, who were fighting the Romans, he was defeated by Boa, captured, and sent in chains to Justinian, who executed him near the Church of St. Conon, located in the Blachernae on the bank of the Golden Horn.[5]

Etymology

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His name is thought to be of Turkic origin.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Jeffreys, Elizabeth; Jeffreys, Michael; Scott, Roger (1986). The Chronicle of John Malalas. Brill. p. 369. ISBN 9789004344600. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  2. ^ Evan Michael Schultheis (30 January 2019). The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields AD 451: Flavius Aetius, Attila the Hun and the Transformation of Gaul. ISBN 978-1526745668.
  3. ^ Golden 1980, p. 258.
  4. ^ Golden 1992, p. 106.
  5. ^ Martindale, J.R. (1992). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire 2 Part Set: Volume 3, AD 527-641. Cambridge University Press. p. 1346. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  6. ^ Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (1973). The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture . Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520015968, pp. 391-392

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