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| | The BBC’s failed multiculturalism » GetReligion |
 | | I think they had been welded together around a core of the Xiongnu people after the Xiongnu lost a battle to the Han Chinese in central Asia and started migrating west (though climatic factors probably had a lot to do with the migration too). |
 | | Even beyond that though, Attila took this ethnic polyglot that was the Huns and added to his Army several of the peoples he conquered, Alans, Gepids, Burgundians, Rugians, Scirii, Sarmatians, Slavs, Heruls, Thuringians, and Ostrogoths. |
 | | In addition to this there were large numbers of freed/escaped Roman slaves, who, given the Roman slave markets, could have literally come from any ethnic background. |
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