Anonymus 197 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E/M IX |
| Dates | 833 (taq) / 833 (tpq) |
| Ethnicity | Khazar |
| Locations | Khazaria; Sarkel |
| Titles | Khagan of the Khazars (office) |
| Textual Sources | Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. G. Moravcsik, trans. R. J. H. Jenkins (Washington, D.C., 1967) (history); Scylitzes, Ioannes, Synopsis Historiarum, ed. J. Thurn (Berlin, 1973) (history); Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history) |
Anonymus 197 was the khagan of Khazaria (ὅ τε χαγάνος Χαζαρίας): Theoph. Cont. III 28 (p. 122). In perhaps c. 833, Anonymus 197 and Pech 1 (or the Pech, if the word is a title) sent envoys (Anonymi 32) to the emperor Theophilos (Theophilos 5) asking for the stronghold of Sarkel to be fortified; Sarkel, or White House, was a fort on the Don and separated the Khazars from the Patzinakioi (are these really the Pechenegs or was the name applied wrongly to some other tribe?); Theophilos 5 sent Petronas 7 to carry out the work: Theoph. Cont. III 28 (pp. 122-123), cf. Scyl., p. 73, lines 78-79 (the Khagan of Khazaria - τοῦ χαγάνου Χαζαρίας - sent an embassy to the emperor Theophilos 5, asking that the fortress of Sarkel be built). The khagan (Anonymus 197) and the pech of Khazaria (ὁ γὰρ χαγάνος ἐκεῖνος καὶ ὁ πὲχ Χαζαρίας; cf. Pech 1) sent envoys to the emperor Theophilos 5 asking him to build the city of Sarkel on the river Tanais: Const. Porph., DAI 42, 27ff.
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