Octar
Sign in to saveOctar or Ouptaros was a Hunnic ruler. He ruled in dual kingship with his brother Rugila, possibly with a geographical division, ruling the Western Huns while his brother ruled the Eastern Huns.
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It sits within the topics 430 deaths, 5th-century Hunnic kings and 5th-century monarchs in Europe.
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Octar
- Royalty.succession
- Chieftain of the Huns (co-rulership)
- Royalty.reign
- 420–430
- Royalty.predecessor
- Charaton
- Royalty.successor
- Rugila
- Royalty.birth_date
- Late 4th century or early 5th century
- Royalty.death_date
- 430
- Royalty.death_place
- Rhineland
- Royalty.father
- Uldin
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Octar or Ouptaros was a Hunnic ruler. He ruled in dual kingship with his brother Rugila, possibly with a geographical division, ruling the Western Huns while his brother ruled the Eastern Huns.
==Etymology== The name is recorded in two variants, Greek Ούπταρος (Ouptaros), and Latin Octar. The change from -ct- to -pt- is characteristic of Balkan Latin. Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen considered the name to be of unknown origin. Omeljan Pritsak derived the name from Turko-Mongolic word *öktem (strong, brave, imperious; proud, boastful; pride) and verb ökte- / oktä- (to encourage). He argued that the deverbal Turkic-Mongolian suffix m was replaced in Turkic by z while in Mongolian by ri. The reconstructed form is appellative *öktä-r.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Octar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.