Agathyrsi were Acatziri [Acatiri] and they were Huns [Scythians]

1. Priscus calls the Agathyrsi [or Acatziri,Acatiri] Huns. Sources; Howorth - The Avars , p.722 Robert Gordon Latham - Opuscula. Essays, chiefly philological and ethnographical, page 176, 1860. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland , p.462, Vol.3, 1874 Giuseppe Simone Assemani - Kalendaria ecclesiae universae, p.395, Vol.1, 1755 Corpus Byzantine Historiae-De Byzantinae historiae scriptoribus, sub felicissimis Ludovici XIV-Excerpta de Legationibus-Carolus Cantoclarus notae ad Priscum, page 195. 1648 Johann Gotthelf von Stritter - Memoriae populorum, olim, ad Danubium, Pontium Euxinum, Paludem Maeotidem,Caucasum..., page 489,Vol.1, 1771

2. Suidas says the Hun Acatiri are Abars/Avars. Sources; Corpus Byzantine Historiae-De Byzantinae historiae scriptoribus, sub felicissimis Ludovici XIV - Excerpta de Legationibus-Carolus Cantoclarus notae ad Priscum, page 195. 1648 Johann Gotthelf von Stritter - Memoriae populorum, olim, ad Danubium, Pontium Euxinum, Paludem Maeotidem,Caucasum..., page 489,Vol.1, 1771

3. Zacharias rhetor (555 a.d.) lists 13 Tribes north of Caucas, which among are the Acatziri [among Onoghurs,Ogurs,Sabirs,Bulgars,Kutrigurs,Avars,Itimari,Saragurs,Barselts,Choliatae,A bdelae,Hephtalites] Source; Hyun Jin Kim - The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe , p. 141, 2013 This tribes usualy are said of Hun origin by many contemporary historians.

Priscus mentions also the Acatziri besides the Sabirs,Saraguri,Urogi,Onoguri,Avars; Sources; Howorth - The Avars , p.722 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland , p.462, Vol.3, 1874 Giuseppe Simone Assemani - Kalendaria ecclesiae universae, p.395, Vol.1, 1755

Philip Smith says that the Agathyrsi were the same with Acatziri and they were Scythian-Huns; - in A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time,page 739,Vol.3, 1865. Sir William Smith also say that the Agathyrsi/Acatziri can be the Huns of Atilla ; - in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Abacaenum-Hytanis 1854.,Vol.1, pages 1096-1097. Robert Gordon Latham writed that the Dacians king's name Decebal is the same with the turk king's name Disbul [Dizabulus,Disabulos] and the Dacians were Scythians. Bergmann also said the 'Decebal' name is Scythian.

4. The Agathyrsi/Acatziri were Scythians . Sources; Corpus Byzantine Historiae-De Byzantinae historiae scriptoribus, sub felicissimis Ludovici XIV-Excerpta

de Legationibus, page 54-55, 1648. Abraham Ortelius - Synonymia geographica: sive populorum, regionum,... at the letter AG, 1578. [ 'Agathyrsi - vide scythe & thrausi' ]

Priscus (5th century) mentions the Acatziri on the Pontic Sea Source; Otto Maenchen-Helfen - The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture, p. 436 (The ''Excerpta de Legationibus'' is the 'History' of Priscus, but this title was used from 10th century.)

Plinius (1th century) mentions the Agathyrsi among Scythian peoples, like Geloni,Thyssagetae,Budini,Basilidae,Auchetae, between Bug river [Hypanis-but the Hypanis can be the Kuban river also] and Dnieper river[Borysthenes] Sources; Plinius - Historia Naturalis , Liber IV,ch.12, p.88 Edward Stillingfleet - Origines Britannicae, p.247-248,1658. Ammianus (4th century) also mentions the Agathyrsi among other Scythian peoples like the Jaxamatae,Maeotae,Jazyges,Roxolani,Alani,Melanchlaenae,Geloni. Pomponius Mela (1th century) also locates the Agathyrsi on the Buces(Nogaika) river which flows into Maeotis, besides other Scythian peoples like Sauromatians,Arimaspoe,Essedones,Hamaxobioe. The Agathyrsi are said by Herodotus living in Carpathians, in Transilvania near the river Maris, too. Marcian of Heraclea (4th century) in he's Periplus, places the Agathyrsi on Chesunus river near Maeotis. Dionysius Periegetes (2th century) says, the Agathyrsi live not far from Riphean (Ural) mountais. [''Not far from Rhiphaean mountais, among the cold Agathyrsi sparkling diamonds are collected''] Avienus (4th century) places the Agathyrsi between the Boryshtenes river - Euxine (Black Sea) and Riphean mountains. Ptolemy (2th century) places the Agathyrsi near by Dvina (Daugava,Dna) river, in Sarmatia, today Belorussia. Solinus (3rd century) says the Agathyrsi live beside Borysthenes (Dnieper) river Baptista Mantuanus (15th century) in he's poem about St.Blasius (died in 316 a.d.) speaks about Agathyrsi, among peoples like Huns,Alans,Turks,Sarmatians.

5. Acatziri are Agathyrsi Marcian of Heraclea (4th century) identifies the Acatziri with the Agathyrsi; Source; Otto Maenchen-Helfen - The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture, p. 451

And some earlier scholars also said that the Acatziri and Agathyrsi are the same people [like, Johann Kaspar Zeus in Die Deutschen und die Nachbarstmme 1837., Zeki Velidi Togan, Sir William Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Abacaenum-Hytanis 1854.,Vol.1, pages 1096-1097., Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin and also Robert Gordon Latham,Alfred Nicolas Rambaud,F.W.Newman]

Otherwise the Acatziri or Acatiri name is similar with Agathyrsi because the G nad C letters are similar gramatically; and more probably the Tyragetae (also lived in present day Ukraine) name is also the Agathyrsi name and the 'Khazar' name too.[The Z letter can change to T because for exp. the germans say for 'gipsy' 'zingi' and the romanians 'tigani' ; Akatir-A-Katar/Kazar]. On this base can be seen also; In Gesta Hungarorum 'Kozars' are mentioned in west Transilvania in 9th century ; they were the Agathyrsi or A-catziri/A-catiri Same the Attacorsi people [end of 4th century] in the time of Valentinian-Valens mentioned , more probably are the Agathyrsi/Acatziri The Attacorsi are also mentioned by Plinius, beside Casiri, Thuni in India near Scythia. The Kotrags or Kazarigs (also known as Kotzagerek/Kutrigurs/Kotrigurs) are also A-Katar-ig or A-Kutri[ir]-gur The Thyrsagetae another Scythian people also are the Agathyrsi - Pomponius Mela mentions the Thyrsagetae or Thyssagetae beside Turcae near Maeotis. The Turk name is mentioned in 1.st century by Pomponius Mela and Pliny, as Tyrcae and Turcae; and the Iurcae name in Heordotus more probable is the TJurkae [ the salvic peoples today call the 'turks' 'tjurki' ] - so it seems that the Jurcae of Herodotus is a corrupted form of Turcae [of Turks]

Some other similarities between Agathyrsi and Scythians.

Vergilius says the Agathyrsi picted their bodies. Same the Scythians - see the Scythian tatoos from kurgans. Pomponius Mela says the Agathyrsi wore tatoos on face and body, according to their rank of noble blood. Herodotus says the Agathyrsi lived in strong communitys - see the same about Scythian's common lives [ Nicolaus of Damascus,Scymnus,Homerus,Horace,Clearchus ] The tombs of Agathyrsi contain Scythian-styled manufactures, weapons [akinakes] ; The Agathyrsi more probably were those Scythians who settled in Carpathians near 700 b.c. [sometimes said 'thraco-cimmerians']

by Turan Silvanus.