# Apsik

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**Apsich** veya **Aspik**, [Bizans İmparatorluğu](https://turkipedia.org/tr/wiki/Bizans_%C4%B0mparatorlu%C4%9Fu)’nda görev yapan bir Hun askeri lideriydi.[^1]

Apsik, Bizans İmparatorluğu'nda yüksek rütbeler kazanmış profesyonel bir askerdi.[^2][^3] [572-591 Bizans-Sasani Savaşı](https://turkipedia.org/tr/wiki/Bizans-Sasani_Sava%C5%9F%C4%B1_%28572-591%29)’da savaştı. [Filippikos](https://turkipedia.org/tr/wiki/Filippikos_%28general%29) 585 yılında hastalanınca ordusunu ona emanet etti.[^4] Solachon Muharebesi'nde atlı okçulardan oluşan bir birliğe komuta etti.[^5]

## Etimoloji

Adı Alan-Türk melezi olabilir. *\*Apsiq*, Alan dilinde *\*apsa*, "at" ve Türkçe *-°k*, *-°q*, "küçük at" kelimesinden oluşur.[^6]

[^1]: Haldon, John F.. Recruitment and Conscription in the Byzantine Army c.550-950. A Study on the Origins of the Stratiotika Ktemata. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1979, s. 82. <https://books.google.com/books?id=QN6GjFD13zMC>
[^2]: Haldon, John F.. Recruitment and Conscription in the Byzantine Army c.550-950. A Study on the Origins of the Stratiotika Ktemata. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1979, s. 82. <https://books.google.com/books?id=QN6GjFD13zMC>
[^3]: Finlay, George. Greece under the Romans, B.C. 146-A.D. 716. Clarendon Press, 1877, s. 304. <https://books.google.com/books?id=e38OAAAAQAAJ>
[^4]: Greatrex, Geoffrey. The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628. Taylor & Francis, 2005. <https://books.google.com/books?id=awCGAgAAQBAJ>
[^5]: Haldon, John. The Byzantine Wars. History Press, 2008. <https://books.google.com/books?id=yTI9AwAAQBAJ>
[^6]: Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J.. The World of the Huns. Chapter IX. Language. <https://www.kroraina.com/huns/mh/mh_8.html#Apsikal>