Mugel (or Muageris) succeeded his brother Grod (or Grodas), a Hunnic ruler in Patria Onoguria. Grod converted to

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on a visit to

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and was established as a Byzantine

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, but when he began to melt down

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s for the

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and

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of which they were made, he was killed and replaced with Mugel. A

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military expedition expelled the

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from the city of Bosporus and after a rule of only 2 years, from AD 528 to 530, Mugel was succeeded by a civil war between

Sandilch Sandilch (''Σάνδιλ'', ''Σάνδιλχος''; Turkic "boat) was a chieftain of the Utigur Bulgars in the 6th century. The origin of the name is probably Turkic."The Histories, Volume 2, Part 1", Agathias, https://books.google.bg/books?id=Pq ...

and

Khinialon Khinialon or Chinialon or Chinialus ( gr, Χινιαλών; undetermined origin) was chieftain of the Kutrigurs. In 551 he came from the "western side of the Maeotic Lake" to assist the Gepids at the war with Lombards with 12,000 Kutrigurs. Later a ...

. There was formerly a common view that ''Muageris'' derived from the word ''magyar'', for the

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. The argument was that the Huns in

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were, really, the ''Onogur'', and the names of the two princes mentioned by

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' chronicle (

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had, in his work also called ''Chronographia'', copied data from the Malalas chronicle, and since he relied upon earlier manuscripts of the work, although not the original of the work, he preserved the Malalas report in more detail) as living in the region of the Maeotian Lake (Sea of Azov) and the

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during the earlier half of the sixth century actually referred to people under the rule of the ''Magyar'' tribe. This derivation of the name has been discredited.

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