The Battle of Chalons, also called the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields or the Battle of the Catalun, took place in 451 between the allied forces and foederati led by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius and the Visigothic king Theodoric on one side, and the Huns led by their king Attila and their allies.
The Romano-Gothic charge apparently swept past the Hunnish camp in pursuit of the fleeing enemy troops, for when night fell and Thorismund, son of king Theodoric, was retiring to friendly lines, he mistakenly entered Attila's encampment, where he was wounded in the ensuing melee before his followers could rescue him.
Add to this the progressive demonization of the Hunnish king Attila, who is often portrayed in contemporary entertainment as a medieval version of Adolf Hitler, and it is easy to see how this battle has become a decisive encounter of the forces of Good versus Evil.
Back west, the Romans invited the Huns east of the Ukraine to settle Pannonia in 361 and in 372, under the leadership of Balimir their king, the Huns push toward the west and defeat the Alans.
Back east again, in the early 5th century Tiefu Xia is the last Hunnish dynasty in Western China and we meet the Alchon and Huna in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The memory of the Hunnish invasion was transmitted orally among the Germanic tribes, and are an important component in the Old Norse Völsunga saga and Hervarar saga, and the Old German Nibelungenlied, all portraying events in the Migrations period, almost one millennium before their recordings.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Huns (1122 words)
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Hunnish incursions into Iran in the time of Bahra@m V Go@r (420-38) and of Yazdegerd II (438-57) may also have involved the Kidarites (see SAÚÚSAÚNIAN DYNASTY).
It is therefore assumed that the Hephthalites constituted a second Hunnish wave who entered Bactria early in the fifth century C.E., and who seem to have driven the Kidarites into Gandhara.
The Gupta emperor Kuma@ragupta in his final year, 454-55 C.E., faced a Hunnish invasion, which was repelled by his crown prince Skandagupta, who then succeeded, but had to encounter several later attacks, with varied success.
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The new Asiatic king established his headquarters at the village of Buda on the Danube River in 445 AD (Buda was later to combine with another village on the other side of the river, Pest, to become Budapest, the modern capital of Hungary).
The vast majority of the Hunnish army were however Mongolian and under the ultimate leadership of the unquestionably militarily astute Atilla.
The greatest effect of the Hunnish invasion of Europe was however the extinction of the source of the Indo-European tribes from their ancestral homeland between the Black and Caspian Seas.
The engraving seems to be not only a witness from the dark epoch of Hunnish invasions into Sogdiana at the eve of the Middle Ages.
The same source points out that he was the third ruler of his dynasty, and therefore it seems quite possible that Hunnish invaders established direct control over Sogdiana already in the second half of the 4th century.
The engraving seems to be not only a witness from the dark epoch of Hunnish invasions into Sogdiana at the eve of the Middle Ages, but a very early manifestation of fully developed narrative imagery in Transoxania, too.
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mainly are related to the Hunnish period and are connected to a penetration of early Türks in the Volga and Ural region.
The carriers of this written civilization were, it seems, Imenkov people, which have brought, judging by the archeological data, in to the Volga and Ural region a distinctive and higher level culture.
Such a sign is met on the bottoms of Hunnish ceramics of the antique times, and on the Turanian coins.
One of the minor intellectual tradegies of history is that the Roman and Byzantine ambassadors who spoke or had some knowledge of the language of the Huns never recorded their knowledge of that language.
The fact that Romans and Byzantines knowledgable of Hunnish did not record their knowledge may indicate that the language was so different in terms of grammatical structure, morphology and phonology that it was extremely difficult to write down.
The fact that Hunnish names were written in numerous different forms is further evidence that the sound system of Hunnish was quite different from the sound systems of Latin and Greek.
Created by the Hunnish Kushan branch in the Bactria during a flourishing period (1-3-th cc people by an obsolete, more ancient Hunnish way of a inflection: asyg al.
Hun·nish (P) Pronunciation Key (hnsh to, or characteristic of the Huns.
Artifacts of antiquity and middle ages: neolithic and bronze age, greek, scythian, roman, byzantine, hunnish, ostrogothic, frankish, khazars Greek and Roman; the Migration period: Hunnish, Germanic (Frankish, Ostrogothic, Visigothic, Langobardic) and Avar.
It is a priori certain that the phonetic system of the Hunnish language, whatever it may have been, was different from that of Greek and Latin.
Even if an author wanted to render a Hunnish name faithfully, the mere fact that he had to use the letters of his own alphabet forced him to distort it.
The third reason for treating transcribed Hunnish names with utmost caution lies in the circumstances under which they have come down to us.
also, i believe jason is correct in his ascertainment of the hunnish physique, if cog you are asking about the "european looking" barbarians, they were the Yue-Chi i believe (transliteration in doubt here) who migrated west and became kushanas in central asia and india.
Hunnish sentence which has survived to the present-day is the
The Word for homeland or country in HunnishTurkic is The word EL...
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Priscus, who was interested in foreign languages, set Hunnish apart from other languages spoken at Attila's court.
During his stay with the Huns, and perhaps also before, he learned enough Hunnish and Gothic to be able to distinguish between them at least by their sound.
He described how Zerco, the Moorish jester, threw the guests at the king's banquet "into fits of unquenchable laughter by his appearance, his dress, his voice, and the promiscuous jumble of words, Latin mixed with Hunnish and Gothic." [11] By calling Edecon a Hun, [12] Priscus implied that the man's tongue was Hunnish.
www.kroraina.com /huns/mh/mh_1.html (1272 words)
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It is an imaginative and vividly written historical fiction written in the 1280s, which combines the Hunnish legend with history.
The division of the work in two periods, Hunnish legend and Hungarian history, offered a framework that persists in popular national history today.
Simon of Kéza was a court cleric of King Ladilaus IV.
Some academicians mean European Hunnish Language carry some differences differently from ASIAN HUNNISH LANGUAGE when taking into consideration The words DENGIZIK and KI-SCO which stands for the word KIZ in Turkish......It is said that the avaliability of the letter Z and#305;n both of the words above differ European Hunnish from r-Asian Hunnish language....
The Hunnish sentence found by SHIRATORI has been tried to be read by RAMSTEDT,BAZIN,GABAIN,SHIRATORI,BENZING and the others with the help of Turkish..
These academicians did not come to an agreement on the explanation of that sentence because of fact that They did not give necessary importance to sound values., so DOERFER said that this hunnish sentence could be read in Escimo language as well..
Huns set up many Hunnish kingdoms in the period following the break-up of the great Hunnish empire....One of these Kingdoms was CHAO HUN state which was bound to The state TO-PA...This Kingdom was in the form of a federative state...
Hunnish sentence I expressed in the previous messages has nothing to do with the language of T'O-PA.....This one in question dates back the language of CHAO HUN state...It is originally of hunnish,that is to say,of turkish
Re: Turkic C,oban (Re: HUNNISH SENTENCE), Yusuf B Gursey
You start in the north corner; the huge Hun fortress is in the south, and the Hunnish allies (yellow) are in the west corner.
You'll want to set up storage pits near two gold mines north of you (essentially the back of your town), as well as near either gold mine/quarry area to the west or east of you.
Be sure to guard the latter with towers, because they lie between you and the Hunnish allies or Goths.
Norse Atlakvida heroic poem in the Norse Poetic Edda (see Edda), an older variant of the tale of slaughter and revenge that is the subject of the German epic Nibelungenlied, from which it differs in several respects.
In the Norse poem, Atli (the Hunnish king Attila) is the villain, who is slain by his wife, Gudrun, to avenge her brothers.
In the Lay of Atli, Gudrun's brothers Gunnar and Hogni are
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