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they found the city besieged by the Huns. Ursula's friends were ... were blown off course and massacred by the Huns and Picts in northern Germany ...

The origin of the European Huns has been the subject of debate for ... record when he became joint king of the Huns with his brother, Bleda. While ...

tribe most famous in history for defeating the Huns after the death of Attila. The state of the Gepids was commonly known as Gepidia or Kingdom of ...

===Huns=== [[Image:800px-Checa-HunCharge.jpg|right|thumb|300px|The Huns, led ...

===Gandhara after invasion by the Huns=== [[Image:HaddaTypes.JPG|thumb ... The Hepthalite Huns captured Gandhara around 450 C.E., and did not ...

It was taken over from the word "Huns," which was a similar ... the Magyars are descendants of Scythians, Huns, Turks, Avars, and/or Sumerians ...

Some historians believe that the Huns originated from the Xiongnu. ... == Did the Northern Xiongnu Become the Huns? == {| class="wikitable ...

off nearly a century of domination by the Huns. The son of the King Theodemir ... given to him by the (unnamed) King of the Huns, and is taken to be an "old ...

or implode, but eventually fell to the Huns due to their superior military ... end. The kingdom probably succumbed to the Huns, who defeated the nearby Alans ...

religion; it was also the religion of the Huns, Eurasian Avars, and early ... that Tengriism was the religion of the Huns, Eurasian Avars, early Hungarians ...

modern readers tend to think of the "Huns" as the nemesis of the ... the fourth century, the Germanic invasions, Huns, Stilcho, Aetius, and his ...

allusions to China, descriptions of the Huns, a relatively sympathetic ... On the other hand, the Visigoths and Huns were no better than wild ...

for the barbarians he probably was thinking of the Huns and other European chiefdoms that had conquered Rome in antiquity. By civilization, Powell clearly ...

by repeated Vandal victories. When the Huns launched attacks against the Roman Empire proper, Rome was forced to divert its military forces away ...

The rise of the Huns around 370 overwhelmed the Gothic kingdoms. ... in 451. Several uprisings against the Huns were suppressed. The collapse ...

there by Eurasian tribes, such as the Scythians, Huns, Magyars, or Mongols. The term rhubarb is a combination of Greek rha and barbarum; rha being ...

made difficult as a result of troubles with the Huns, the council was called to meet at Nicaea, but was moved at the last moment to Chalcedon, where ...

Greeks, Greco-Bactrians, Kushans, White Huns, and Scythians. This period ... Later invaders included the Scythians and White Huns. While Punjab ...

The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng|l=10,000 Li (里) long wall ) is a series of stone and earthen ...

Empires (challenged by the incursions of the Huns, the Ostrogoths, the Gepidae, the Sarmatians, the Avars, the Serbs, the Frankish Kingdom, the Great ...

The Romans pulled out in the fifth century C.E. Huns invaded. After Attila the Hun (406–453) died and the Huns left, Germanic tribes, Lombards ...

Tengri is the supreme god of the old Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Bulgar, Mongolian, Hunnic and Altaic religion named Tengriism. For the ancient ...

by Celts, the Roman Empire, Visigoths, Huns, Ostrogoths, Longobards, the ... residence was moved to Ravenna. The Huns overran the city in 452, and ...

By 370 C.E., the Huns had arrived on the Volga, and by 430, they had ... Apart from the Huns, the earliest Turkic tribes arrived in the seventh ...

Eastern Han, its capital Luoyang was sacked by the Huns. ==Legacy== Intellectual, literary, and artistic endeavors revived and flourished during ...

Wilhelm invoked the memory of the fifth century Huns, gave rise to the British derogatory name "Hun" for their German enemy during World War I. ...

* c. 460–470 – The Ephthalites (known as the White Huns) sweep over Gandhāra and the Punjab; wholesale destruction of Buddhist monasteries ...

iron ore in the Yenisei. They became vassals of the Huns and provided them with manufactured arms. After the Huns they were passed as vassals to the Rouran ...

and migration waves: Visigoths, Carpians, Huns, and Gepids (Slavic peoples ... were in turn displaced and subdued by the Huns in 376, under the leadership ...

treasure. Many years later, King Etzel of the Huns (Attila the Hun) proposes to Kriemhild, and they get married. For the baptism of their son, she invites ...

The Hephthalites, also known as "White Huns," were an Indo ... a group they appear to be distinct from the Huns who ravaged Europe in the ...

In the beginning of the fifth century, the Hephthalites (White Huns ... Herat, he and his army were trapped by the Huns in the desert. Peroz I was ...

a famous historical fifth century battle between Huns and the Burgundians. Some cite a possible etymology of Arthur's name from Welsh arth, "bear ...

Hunnorum et Hungarorum ("The Deeds of the Huns and Hungarians") mentioned that the Árpáds descended from the gens (clan) Turul. The Gesta ...

known in English as The Battle of the Goths and the Huns), extracted from Hervarar saga. *The Waking of Angantýr, extracted from Hervarar saga. ...

Ancient Greeks, Dacians, Romans, Goths, Huns, Avars, Bulgars, and Tatars. Founded in 1436 as a monastery town, Chişinău was part of the Moldavian ...

UglyChinese.org [http://www.uglychinese.org/hun.htm The Huns – Part I] Retrieved January 4, 2009. Chopsticks have long been the primary eating ...

Persian Sassanids to defeat and destroy the White Huns, who were allies of the Rouran. This war tightened the Ashina's grip on the Silk Road and ...

ii. 14; Evagrius, Hist. eccl., iv. 20), the Huns dwelling near the Don River (Procopius, iv. 4; Evagrius, iv. 23), the Abasgi (Procopius, iv ...

in his hands during the great battle against the Huns in 955 C.E. Freisenegger's monograph "Die Ulrichs-kreuze" (Augsburg, 1895), enumerates ...

of Herodotus and allied partly with the Huns when they arrived in the fourth ... The northern part of Dagestan was overrun by the Huns, followed by ...

Persians, Scythians, Romans, Byzantines, Goths, Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Slavs, Varangians, Crusaders, Venetians, Genovese, Tatars, Ottomans, and Russians. ...

drainage system. In 452, Emona was devastated by the Huns under Attila's orders, and again later by the Ostrogoths and the Lombards. ...

The Huns under Attila invaded Padua in 452, Gothic kings Odoacer (435–493), and Theodoric the Great (454–526) controlled the city. During ...

In 375 C.E., the nomadic Huns began invading Europe from the eastern ... The Huns, taking advantage of the departure of the Goths, Quadi, and ...

of the Roman Empire with the invasions of the Huns and the Vandals. [[Image:Benedictus XVI pont max pontif I.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Example of ...

Unlike other mobile fighters, such as the Huns or the Vikings, the Mongols were very comfortable in the art of the siege. They were very careful ...

The capital Belgrade has been captured 60 times (by the Romans, Huns ... and towns were built. Invasions by Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Avars, and others ...

of the horse that the armies of the Huns, Alexander the Great, the Romans, the Ottomans, Napoleon, and so many others were able to vanquish foes ...

declined in the wake of the invasion of the White Huns during the fifth century C.E. The decline accelerated in the twelfth century C.E. with the fall ...

of peoples from Siberia and Eastern Europe: Huns, Avars, Bulgars, and Magyars). Following in the Germans' wake, they moved southward into ...

In the fifth century C.E., the Huns, led by Attila, demanded tribute from Constantinople. The city refused to pay, and Attila was about to wage ...

Singidunum was invaded by Huns, Sarmatians, Ostrogoths and Avars before the arrival of the Slavs around 630. The Frankish Kingdom destroyed the ...

The Germanic Goths and Asiatic Huns were the first to invade. The Avars attacked in 570, and the Slavic Serbs and Croats overran Illyrian-populated ...

some of the Xiongnu migrated West to become the Huns. After the Xiongnu migrated west, Rouran, a close relative of the Mongols, came to power before ...

in (a) fashion reminiscent (of) Attila (and) his Huns. (Not) less than three hundred thousand Chinese civilians slaughtered, many cases (in) cold blood ...

by the Visigoths and, some 50 years later, by the Huns led by Attila. The last and most enduring incursion was that of the Lombards, which began in ...

:"Just as the Huns under their king Etzel created for themselves ... propagandists shamelessly lifted the term Huns out of context, this is another ...

in the area but came under the sway of the Huns from the 370s. ... The Huns were defeated at the battle of Nedao in 454. With the power ...

Noricum mediterraneum. Subsequent attacks by Huns and eastern Germans overcame Roman provincial defenses in the area. ===Severinus of Noricum=== ...

along the Dalmatian coast. The Lombards and the Huns made an incursion from the north. After year 476 the area was subject to Odoacer and then to Ostrogoth ...

* Kennedy, Hugh. Mongols, Huns & Vikings. London: Cassell, 2002. ISBN 0304352926 * Lister, Richard P. Genghis Khan. New York, NY: Cooper Square ...

thesis. 1953/1954. The Battle of the Goths and the Huns, in: Saga-Book. (University College, London, for the Viking Society for Northern Research) 14 ...

with the dissolution of the Epthalite (White Huns) confederacy."Yu. V. Gankovsky, et al. A History of Afghanistan. (Moscow: Progress Publishers ...

that had earlier been occupied by the Huns, and expanded rapidly to rule wide territories in Central Asia. The Göktürks originated from the ...

down in what is today Hungary (Einhard called them Huns), invaded Friuli and Bavaria. Charles was preoccupied until 790 C.E. with other things, but in ...

just before Srinagar fell to the control of the Huns in the sixth century, and Mihirkula was the most dreaded ruler of the city and the valley. ...

From the fifth century it was overrun in turn by the Huns, the Avars, and the Bulgars. Those centuries were characterized by a terrible state of insecurity ...

drama, as the arrow fired by the king of the Huns strikes her in the breast, unlike earlier paintings which had all the immobility of the posed models ...

seventh centuries in Tibet, a period when the White Huns had extensive links with the Tibetans. The first European traveler who appears to have ...

groups that migrated into Roman territory were the Huns, Bulgars, Avars and Magyars, along with a large number of Germanic, and later Slavic peoples ...

their former lands following an invasion by the Huns. Their leaders Alavius and Fritigern led them to seek refuge from the Eastern Roman Empire. Valens ...

whereas others moved on with the Huns towards Central Europe, settling in Pannonia. The Bulgars merged with the local Romanized and Hellenized ...

changed hands between the Alans and Huns. By the sixth century, Emperor Justinian had reconquered the area for the Byzantine Empire. ...

until 378 C.E., when another nomadic people, the Huns, arrived and stayed until 435. The Gepids and the Eurasian Avars ruled Transylvania until the ...

western and southern Europe, away from marauding Huns, Avars, and Magyars. Tribes built many gords - fortified structures with primitive walls ...

frontier. In the fourth and fifth centuries, nomadic Huns, sweeping in from Asia, set off waves of migration, during which the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, ...

often move on to Europe, as was the case with Huns and Turkish Avars. A Turkic people, the Khazars, reigned over the lower Volga basin steppes between ...