Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and OceaniaArchived 2013-05-28 at the वेबैक मशीन, Barbara A. West, Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4381-1913-7, ... In addition to these difficulties in tracing Rouran origins, there is also considerable debate about what happened to them after their final defeat at the hands of the Gokturks in the 550s. Many scholars believe that they migrated westward and, as the Avars, established themselves as the rulers in the region of Hungary in eastern Europe ...
Pre-Modern Russia and Its World, Thomas Schaub Noonan, Kathryn Reyerson, Theofanis George Stavrou, James D. Tracy, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-447-05425-6, ... In 552, the Turks, led by the Asina clan, a tribal union of complex origins initially including Turkic, Iranian39 and subsequently very probably other ethnic elements (Proto-Mongolic or Para- Mongolic, Uralic and Palaeo-Siberian), toppled the Jou-jan/Asian Avar state that had been the hegemonic power over the nomads of Inner Asia ...
Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and OceaniaArchived 2013-05-28 at the वेबैक मशीन, Barbara A. West, Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4381-1913-7, ... In addition to these difficulties in tracing Rouran origins, there is also considerable debate about what happened to them after their final defeat at the hands of the Gokturks in the 550s. Many scholars believe that they migrated westward and, as the Avars, established themselves as the rulers in the region of Hungary in eastern Europe ...
