In this sense, the Gargar (perhaps a reduplicated form of Old Udi q̇ar ‘tribe’) would have constituted a south-eastern branch of the ancient Udis most of whom later either migrated to regions north of the river Alazani or became assimilated especially to the Turkic-speaking groups in the present-day Azerbaijan Republic. ↑ Михаил Илларионович Артамонов История хазар — Филологический факультет Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета, 2002. — Б. 419. — ISBN 5846500323, 9785846500327.