Glom (Hun)

Glom (fl. 528)[1] was a Hun sub-king, or tribe king. He fought for the Sasanian Empire in the late 520s.

Biography

Glom was a king of a section of the Huns.[2] He became an ally of Persian king Kavad I and in 528 fought for him against the queen of the Hunnish tribe of the Sabirs, a woman named Boa (Boarez/Boarek),[3] the widow of Balaq.[4][5] He was defeated by Boa while marching to aid the Persians against the Romans.[2]

Etymology

His name might be of Iranian origin.[6]

References

1. Jeffreys, Elizabeth; Jeffreys, Michael; Scott, Roger (1986). The Chronicle of John Malalas. Brill. p. 340. ISBN 9789004344600. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Golden 1980, p. 258.
5. Golden 1992, p. 106.
6. Justi, Ferdinand (1895). Iranisches Namenbuch . Marburg: NG Elwertsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, p. 112.

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• Maenchen-Helfen, Otto John (1973), The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520015968
• Agathias (1975), The Histories, Walter de Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-11-082694-4
• Clauson, Gerard (1972). An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Golden, Peter Benjamin (1980). Khazar studies: An Historico-Philological Inquiry into the Origins of the Khazars. Vol. 1. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. ISBN 9630515490.
• Sinor, Denis (1990), The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-24304-9
• Golden, Peter Benjamin (1992). An introduction to the History of the Turkic peoples: ethnogenesis and state formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 9783447032742.
• Golden, Peter Benjamin (2013). "Some Notes on the Etymology of Sabirs". In Alexander A. Sinitsyn; Maxim M. Kholod (eds.). Κοινον Δωρον - Studies and Essays in Honour of Valery P. Nikonorov on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday presented by His Friends and Colleagues. St. Petersburg State University - Faculty of Philology. pp. 49–55.
• Greatrex, Geoffrey; Lieu, Samuel N. C. (2007), The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars Ad 363-628, Psychology Press, ISBN 978-0-415-46530-4
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• Boris Zhivkov (2015). Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Brill. ISBN 9789004294486.
• Zimonyi, Istvan (2015), Muslim Sources on the Magyars in the Second Half of the 9th Century: The Magyar Chapter of the Jayhānī Tradition, BRILL, ISBN 978-90-04-30611-0