Akatziri

The Akatziri, Akatzirs or Acatiri (Greek: Άκατίροι, Άκατζίροι, Akatiroi, Akatziroi; Latin: Acatziri) were a tribe that lived north of the Black Sea, though the Crimean city of Cherson seemed to be under their control in the sixth century. Jordanes (fl. 551) called them a mighty people, not agriculturalists but cattle-breeders and hunters. Their ethnicity is undetermined: the 5th-century historian Priscus describes them as ethnic (ethnos) Scythians, but they are also referred to as Huns (Akatiri Hunni). Their name has also been connected to the Agathyrsi. However, according to E. A. Thompson, any conjectured connection between the Agathyrsi and the Akatziri should be rejected outright. but the word Agathirsi, a Scythian tribe, is explained in Greek as "referring to the compound herbal wand of Bacchus. ", which matches the literal meaning of `ağaçeri` (woodman), a Turkish word. Today, `ağaçeri` are called tahtacı (the boardman).