← Explore on the interactive map

Sandilkh

Type Figure Region Don River region Time c. 520–560 Also known as Sandilch、Sándil、Sandil、Sandilkh、Σάνδιλχος

Sandilch was a sixth-century leader of the Utigurs, active on the steppe north of the Black Sea east of the Don River and the Sea of Azov.…

Timeline

  1. 550–560Steppe east of the Don to the Sea of Azov · Don River regionJustinian I persuaded and funded the Utigurs to attack the Kutrigurs, who were then invading Byzantium to the west. Sandilch initially refused on the grounds of shared kinship and customs, but eventually sent troops, inflicting heavy losses on the Kutrigurs. Procopius preserved his claim that he and the Kutrigurs were kinsmen.
  2. c. 558–576Steppe north of the Black Sea · Northern Black Sea coastAfter the Utigurs and Kutrigurs weakened each other, most of the surviving Kutrigurs migrated west with the Avars, while the Utigurs remained on the Pontic steppe and gradually fell under Turkic rule. Sandilkh's own death cannot be pinned to 560.

Sources