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The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. According to European tradition, they were first reported living east of the Volga River, in an area that was part of Scythia at the time.
- Hun Origin
- Huns in Life and in Battle
- Huns Reach The Roman Empire
- The Huns Unite
- Attila The Hun
- Battle of The Catalaunian Plains
- Death of Attila
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No one knows exactly where the Huns came from. Some scholars believe they originated from the nomad Xiongnu people who entered the historical record in 318 B.C. and terrorized China during the Qin Dynasty and during the later Han Dynasty. The Great Wall of Chinawas reportedly built to help protect against the mighty Xiongnu. Other historians believ...
The Huns were equestrian masters who reportedly revered horses and sometimes slept on horseback. They learned horsemanship as early as age three and, according to legend, their faces were cut at a young age with a sword to teach them to endure pain. Most Hun soldiers dressed simply but regally outfitted their steeds with saddles and stirrups trimme...
The Huns came on the historical scene in Europe during the late 4th century A.D when, in 370 A.D., they crossed the Volga River and conquered the Alans, another civilization of nomadic, warring horsemen. Two years later, they attacked the Ostrogoths, an eastern tribe of Germanic Goths who harassed the Roman Empire by frequently attacking their terr...
By 430 A.D., the Hun tribes had united and were ruled by King Rugila and his brother, Octar. But by 432, Octar had been killed in battle and Rugila ruled alone. At one point, Rugila formed a treaty with the Roman Emperor Theodosiusin which the Huns received a tribute from Theodosius in exchange for their army’s help in defeating the Goths. In the 5...
King Rugila died in 434 and was succeeded by his two nephews—brothers Attilaand Bleda. Attila was described as a short man with a large head and thin beard who knew both Latin and Goth and was a master negotiator. Shortly after starting his reign, he negotiated a peace treaty with the Eastern Roman Empire in which the Romans paid him gold in exchan...
Attila invaded Gaul, which included modern-day France, northern Italy and western Germany, in 451. But the Romans had wised up and allied with the Visigoths and other barbarian tribes to finally stop the Huns in their tracks. According to legend, the night before the battle Attila consulted sacrificed bones and saw that thousands of his army would ...
Attila the Hun may have been an infamous warrior, but he didn’t die a warrior’s death. When Marcian, the new emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, refused to pay Attila a previously-agreed-to annual tribute in 453, Attila regrouped and planned to attack Constantinople. But before he could strike, he was found dead—on his wedding night after marrying...
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The Huns were a group of nomadic tribes who terrorized Europe and the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D. They were expert horsemen, archers and warriors who were led by Attila, the "scourge of God".
20. Juni 2024 · Hun, member of a nomadic pastoralist people who invaded southeastern Europe c. 370 CE and during the next seven decades built up an enormous empire there and in central Europe. The earliest systematic description of the Huns is that given by the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, writing c. 395.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The history of the Huns spans the time from before their first secure recorded appearance in Europe around 370 AD to after the disintegration of their empire around 469.
25. Apr. 2018 · The Huns were a nomadic tribe prominent in the 4th and 5th century whose origin is unknown but, most likely, they came from "somewhere between the eastern edge of the Altai Mountains and the Caspian Sea, roughly modern Kazakhstan" (Kelly, 45).
- Joshua J. Mark
31. Aug. 2022 · The Huns were nomadic warriors, likely from Central Asia, who are best known for invading and terrorizing Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. and hastening the downfall of the Western...
11. Juni 2021 · In the 5th century CE the Western Roman Empire collapsed under enormous strain from multiple barbarian incursions. Many of these pillaging tribes were moving west in order to avoid the most terrifying warrior band of all: the Huns. The Huns existed as a horror story in the west, long before they actually arrived.
