Index 323
Gorgan (Jurjan) 15, 155
Györffy, György 97, 180, 274
gyula, Magyar title 97–98
hākhām 91, 100
Halley’s Comet 82
Ham, son of Noah 41
Hamiz, Ossetian (Nart) hero 123
Hammurabi, Babylonian ruler 105
Hasan ibn Zayd, Emir of Tabaristan 155
Hatirlitber 63–64, see also elteber
Harun Al-Rashid, Abbasid Caliph 58
Hasdai ibn Shaprut 1, 75 and n. 254
Hedeby 148–149
Hephthalites 33, 120
Hera, Greek goddess 104, 113
Heracles, Greek divine hero 76, 103, 108–109
Herat 15, 41
Herodotus 103, 108–110
Hestia, Scythian goddess 103, 106–108, 112,
see also Tabiti
Hindu Kush Mountains 33, 38 n. 88, 149
History of Tabaristan, see Ibn Isfendiyar
Holy Mountain 115 n. 455
horse/horseman 65, 74, 78, 83, 103, 108,
113, 116 n. 461, 118–119 and n. 474, 120,
121 n. 493, 125
Hou Han Shu (The Book of the Later Han) 30
Howard-Johnston, James 136, 146, 231 n. 31,
235 n. 48
Hudud al-ʿAlam 52–53, 60–61, 64 n. 202,
134–135, 137, 143 n. 85, 203, 262
Hungarian Plain 277
Hungary 97 n. 363, 180, 248, 265 and n. 205,
277
Hunnu Empire 49, 251 n. 122, 271, 280
Hunor, ancestor of the Huns 122 n. 499
Huns 22–23, 26, 28–30, 32, 34, 37, 49, 84, 185,
226 n. 13, 246, 252 n. 125, 269, 277–278,
280, 282 n. 55
Caucasian 44, 61, 76, 116–117, 232
Huvishka, Kushan ruler 111
hvarna 101
Hypatian chronicle 263 n. 196
Iakobson, Anatolii 133 n. 30
Iangikent 14–16, 240
Iasinovo 190
Ibn Al-Asir, Ali ibn Muhammad 141, 267
Ibn Atham Al-Kufi, Ahmad 233 n. 37
Ibn Fadlan, Ahmad 48, 65 n. 208, 66, 84, 86,
95–96 and n. 353, 97–99, 107, 154,
157–158, 232, 242, 273
Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani 44, 152, 166
Ibn Hawqal, Muhammad Abuʾl-Qasim 66,
88 n. 324, 137, 139, 143, 146, 159 n. 44,
211 n. 182, 234, 262–263, 265 n. 203, 266
Ibn Isfandiyar, Baha al-Din Muhammad ibn
Hasan 155
Ibn Khaldun, Abu Zayd ʿAbdu r-Rahman b.
Muhammad 45
Ibn Khordadbeh, Abuʾl-Qasim Ubaydallah
ibn Abdallah 62, 64, 152, 164–165, 203
Ibn Miskawayh, Ahmad ibn Muhammad 267
Ibn Rustah, Ahmad 49, 59–60, 97–98,
158–159 and n. 44, 211 n. 182, 233
ichirgu-boil, Bulgar title 97
Iduk Yer-Sub, Turkic goddess 113
Igor, Rus’Prince 133 n. 28, 136, 144, 201 n. 129
Ikhshid, see shad
Ilek River 33, 64 n. 202
Imenkovo culture 234 n. 42
Imeon Mountain 38 and n. 88
India 76 n. 260
Indo-Europeans 22, 73
Indra, Indian god 73–74, 77 n. 264,
78 n. 270, 79
Ioachim chronicle 265
Iordanov, Stefan 83 n. 296, 226 n. 16,
239 n. 62
Iraj, son of Fereydun 45, 74
Iran/Iranians 33, 46, 77–79, 101, 110, 114,
149–150, 238, 244, 249, 279, 282
Sassanid Iran/Persia 78, 110, 119, 245,
248, 280
Iraq 150, 165 n. 71
Irtysh River 34, 36 n. 73
Isaac, son of Abraham 42
Isbul, Bulgar kavkhan 79 n. 278
Isha/Ishad, see shad
Ishim River 34
Ishtar 105, 110, 124 and n. 511
Islam 2, 57 n. 175, 150, 155, 197 n. 109, 237,
see also Muslims
Ismail Samani, Samanid ruler 150, 155, 162
island 84 and n. 300, 98, 110
Ispor 122–123, see also Asparukh
Israel 18, 88, 90–91, 230