Any clear evidence pertaining to the following
period could not be obtained about the Sabar people that seemed to have been in
cooperation with the Byzantine until the year of531. It has been anticipated that they
suffered from terrible losses and casualties in the continuous and successful wars of
Sasani State in the Caucasus (especially in 545) in the period of Şehinshah Anuşirvan
(Adil). As a result of this decline, they lost their military power and they had a
terrible strike from Avar people towards the year of 557. After a short period, the Sabar
regions were under the domination of the Gok-Turk State that reached to the Black Sea. In the year of 576, their
domination in the Caucasus was abolished by the Byzantine. Then, some of Sabar people were
settled in the south of Kura River. Their name was observed in an unorganised manner until
the middle of the 7th century. It has been understood that Sabar people constituted the
main community of the Khazar people that came into existence as a great state in the same
region in these years. Similarly, it has been observed that Belencer and Semender tribes
that were considered as Khazar tribes were essentially two big Sabar groups.
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