According to an anonymous Roman author of the 4th century CE, the producer of the Chronography of 354, Ziezi was a son of Japheth and a grandson of Noah. His name is mentioned in the excerpt Ziezi ex quo vulgares meaning "Ziezi, of whom the Bulgars" but being regarded as the first reference to the Bulgars as a people.
The name Ziazi is mentioned on a stele from the island of Lemnos in the 6th century BC.
Honour
Ziezi Peak on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Ziezi.
Notes
- Daniel Ziemann, Vom Wandervolk zur Grossmacht: die Entstehung Bulgariens im frühen Mittelalter (7.-9. Jahrhundert), Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2007, ISBN 3412091065, S. 56.
- Ziezi Peak. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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