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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. [1] By 370 AD, the Huns had arrived on the Volga, causing the westwards ...
Aug 2, 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.
Apr 5, 2018 · The Huns were fierce warriors who terrorized much of Europe and the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., until the death of their famed king Attila.
Apr 25, 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). They became a formidable fighting force, displacing many other peoples, and contributed to the fall of ...
The Huns likely entered Western Asia shortly before 370, from Central Asia: they first conquered the Goths and the Alans, pushing a number of tribes to seek refuge within the Roman Empire. In the following years, the Huns conquered most of the Germanic and Scythian tribes outside of the borders of the Roman Empire.
Aug 31, 2022 · The Huns did not remain in these areas, however; after plundering these provinces, they returned north of the Danube. A few years later, in A.D. 406, a Hun leader named Uldin launched a second ...
