About 445 Attila murdered his brother Bleda and in 447, for unknown reasons, made his second great attack on the Eastern Roman Empire. [205] Like Ammianus, the sixth-century writer Zosimus also emphasizes the Huns' almost exclusive use of horse archers and their extreme swiftness and mobility. [177] Ammianus Marcellinus claimed that the Hunnish women lived in seclusion, however the first-hand account of Priscus shows them freely moving and mixing with men. Unfortunately, the nomadic nature of Hun society means that they have left very little in the archaeological record. [71] Dengzich attacked the Romans in 467, without the assistance of Ernak. However, in 453 he died of a haemorrhage on his wedding night. [282] Pál Engel notes that it "cannot be wholly excluded" that Arpadian kings may have been descended from Attila, however, and believes that it is likely the Hungarians once lived under the rule of the Huns. In 447, Attila invaded the Balkans and Thrace. [87] Maenchen-Helfen, however, notes that archaeological finds indicate that various steppe nomad populations did grow grain; in particular, he identifies a find at Kunya Uaz in Khwarezm on the Ob River of agriculture among a people who practiced artificial cranial deformation as evidence of Hunnic agriculture. Grab a copy of our NEW encyclopedia for Kids! [113] Regarding the organization of Hunnic rule under Attila, Peter Golden comments "it can hardly be called a state, much less an empire". [100], Civilians and soldiers captured by the Huns might also be ransomed back, or else sold to Roman slave dealers as slaves. The earliest systematic description of the Huns is that given by the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, writing c. 395. [189][190][187] Maenchen-Helfen argues that the performers of these acts of soothsaying and divination were likely shamans. [152] Maenchen-Helfen lists a total of six known Hunnish diadems. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. As early as the Zhou Dynasty (1046BC-256BC), many states had already built defensive walls along their borders to prevent attack from other states and northern Huns. However, mainstream scholarship dismisses a close connection between the Hungarians and Huns. [111][112] Denis Sinor similarly notes that, with the exception of the historically uncertain Balamber, no Hun leaders are named in the sources until Uldin, indicating their relative unimportance. [277] László Makkai notes as well that some archaeologists and historians believe Székelys were a Hungarian tribe or an Onogur-Bulgar tribe drawn into the Carpathian Basin at the end of the 7th century by the Avars (who were identified with the Huns by contemporary Europeans). Their relationships with other entities such as the Iranian Huns and the Indian Huna people has also been disputed. [79] Ancient sources mention that the Huns' herds consisted of various animals, including cattle, horses, and goats; sheep, though unmentioned in ancient sources, "are more essential to the steppe nomad even than horses"[80] and must have been a large part of their herds. They were found to be carrying the paternal haplogroups Q1a2, R1b1a1b1a1a1 and R1a1a1b2a2. [284] A majority of the Hungarian aristocracy continued to ascribe to the Hunnic view into the early twentieth century. [167] Some scholars have argued that Gothic was used as the lingua franca of the Hunnic Empire. The claim appears to have first arisen in non-Hungarian sources and only gradually been taken up by the Hungarians themselves because of its negative connotations. 2020 found that the Xiongnu shared certain paternal and maternal haplotypes with the Huns, and suggested on this basis that the Huns were descended from Xiongnu, who they in turn suggested were descended from Scytho-Siberians. [85] Thompson, taking these accounts at their word, argues that "[w]ithout the assistance of the settled agricultural population at the edge of the steppe they could not have survived". [20] Kim believes that the term Hun was "not primarily an ethnic group, but a political category"[21] and argues for a fundamental political and cultural continuity between the Xiongnu and the European Huns,[22] as well as between the Xiongnu and the "Iranian Huns". These bows were typified by being asymmetric in cross-section between 145–155 cm in length, having between 4–9 lathes on the grip and in the siyahs. Topics Sorted by Last Post Attila claimed her as his bride and half the Western Roman Empire as dowry. About 445 Attila murdered his brother Bleda and in 447, for unknown reasons, made his second great attack on the Eastern Roman Empire. [a] Sinor also finds it likely that the Huns had shamans, although they are completely unattested. [198] Priscus claims that the Huns sacrificed their prisoners "to victory" after they entered Scythia, but this is not otherwise attested as a Hunnic custom and may be fiction. In 451, Attila's forces entered Gaul. [120] Heather, however, argues that Ammianus merely means that the Huns didn't have a single ruler; he notes that Olympiodorus mentions the Huns having several kings, with one being the "first of the kings". Led by Ellak, Attila's favored son and ruler of the Akatziri, the Huns engaged the Gepid king Ardaric at the Battle of Nedao, who led a coalition of Germanic Peoples to overthrow Hunnic imperial authority. [169], As to the Hunnic language itself, only three words are recorded in ancient sources as being "Hunnic," all of which appear to be from an Indo-European language. The joint rulers negotiated a peace treaty at Margus (now Požarevac, Serbia) with the Eastern Roman Empire, by which the Romans agreed to double the subsidies they had been paying the Huns. [204], Based on Ammianus' description, Maenchen-Helfen argues that the Huns' tactics did not differ markedly from those used by other nomadic horse archers. [188] A belief in prophecy and divination is also attested among the Huns. [111] Ammianus also mentions that the Huns made their decisions in a general council (omnes in commune) while seated on horse back. [200][201] The missionary activities among the Huns of the Caucasus seem to have been particularly successful, resulting in the conversion of the Hunnish prince Alp Ilteber. The most clear correlation between America and Germany’s rivalry in World War I and anti-German sentiment in America was the harassment German-Americans experienced in response to their assumed ties with Germany. [128] Some of the "picked men" seem to have been chosen because of birth, others for reasons of merit. [11], Since Joseph de Guignes in the 18th century, modern historians have associated the Huns who appeared on the borders of Europe in the 4th century AD with the Xiongnu who had invaded China from the territory of present-day Mongolia between the 3rd century BC and the 2nd century AD. "[151], Both ancient sources and archaeological finds from graves confirm that the Huns wore elaborately decorated golden or gold-plated diadems. [195], John Man argues that the Huns of Attila's time likely worshipped the sky and the steppe deity Tengri, who is also attested as having been worshipped by the Xiongnu. Attila the Hun was one of the most successful barbarian rulers of the Hunnic Empire, attacking the Eastern and Western Roman empires. [222] Heather makes note of multiple possible routes for acquisition of this knowledge, suggesting that it could have been brought back from service under Aetius, acquired from captured Roman engineers, or developed through the need to pressure the wealthy silk road city states and carried over into Europe. [180], Priscus also attests that the widow of Attila's brother Bleda was in command of a village that the Roman ambassadors rode through: her territory may have included a larger area. And as they are lightly equipped for swift motion, and unexpected in action, they purposely divide suddenly into scattered bands and attack, rushing about in disorder here and there, dealing terrific slaughter; and because of their extraordinary rapidity of movement they are never seen to attack a rampart or pillage an enemy's camp. [151] Maenchen-Helfen believes that the Huns likely had "tents of felt and sheepskin": Priscus once mentions Attila's tent, and Jordanes reports that Attila lay in state in a silk tent. [258] In this way, various prehistoric megalithic structures, particularly in Northern Germany, came to be identified as Hünengräber (Hun graves) or Hünenbetten (Hun beds). [286] Hunnic origins also played a large role in the ideology of the modern radical right-wing party Jobbik's ideology of Pan-Turanism. [199][187], In addition to these Pagan beliefs, there are numerous attestations of Huns converting to Christianity and receiving Christian missionaries. Classical sources assert that they appeared in Europe suddenly around 370. It is also known that the Huns had a language of their own, however only three words and personal names attest to it. "[166] Priscus said that Attila's "Scythian" subjects spoke "besides their own barbarian tongues, either Hunnish, or Gothic, or, as many have dealings with the Western Romans, Latin; but not one of them easily speaks Greek, except captives from the Thracian or Illyrian frontier regions". [180] Due to the pastoral nature of the Huns' economy, the women likely had a large degree of authority over the domestic household. [49], Damgaard et al. [97], The Huns received a large amount of gold from the Romans, either in exchange for fighting for them as mercenaries or as tribute. [138] At the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, Attila is noted by Jordanes to have placed his subject peoples in the wings of the army, while the Huns held the center. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. [23], The name Hun is attested in classical European sources as Greek Οὖννοι (Ounnoi) and Latin Hunni or Chuni. "[290] This comparison was later heavily employed by British and English-language propaganda during World War I, and to a lesser extent during World War II, in order to paint the Germans as savage barbarians. [30] Maenchen-Helfen himself proposes an Iranian etymology, from a word akin to Avestan hūnarā (skill), hūnaravant- (skillful), and suggests that it may originally have designated a rank rather than an ethnicity. During the negotiations, a Hun in service of the Romans named Chelchel persuaded the enemy Goths to attack their Hun overlords. There have been a number of proposed Turkic etymologies, deriving the name variously from Turkic ön, öna (to grow), qun (glutton), kün, gün, a plural suffix "supposedly meaning 'people'",[29] qun (force), and hün (ferocious). [84], Ancient sources uniformly deny that the Huns practiced any sort of agriculture. Peter Heather argues that the Huns were a disorganized confederation in which leaders acted completely independently and that eventually established a ranking hierarchy, much like Germanic societies. [8] Roman writers also repeated a tale that the Huns had entered the domain of the Goths while they were pursuing a wild stag, or else one of their cows that had gotten loose, across the Kerch Strait into Crimea. [129] Thompson argued that these "picked men" "were the hinge upon which the entire administration of the Hun empire turned":[130] he argues for their existence in the government of Uldin, and that each had command over detachments of the Hunnic army and ruled over specific portions of the Hunnic empire, where they were responsible also for collecting tribute and provisions. Odoacer was a German warrior, the son of Idico (Edeco) and probably a member of the Sciri tribe. Flavius Aetius was given the duty of relieving Orléans by Emperor Valentinian III. [132] Kim affirms the importance of the logades for Hunnic administration, but notes that there were differences of rank between them, and suggests that it was more likely lower ranking officials who gathered taxes and tribute. [71] This conclusion is still subject to some controversy. They typically had gold foil hilts, gold sheet scabbards, and scabbard fittings decorated in the polychrome style. [102] More recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that pastoral nomadists are actually more likely to use slave labor than sedentary societies: the slaves would have been used to manage the Huns' herds of cattle, sheep, and goats. Whether or not they had a single overall leader in the 4th century is still a matter of dispute. [237] In other versions, Attila takes the pope hostage and is forced by the saints to release him. [159] However, by the middle of the fifth century, the Huns are also known to have also owned permanent wooden houses, which Maenchen-Helfen believes were built by their Gothic subjects. [65] In 433 some parts of Pannonia were ceded to them by Flavius Aetius, the magister militum of the Western Roman Empire.[66]. [1] By 370 AD, the Huns had arrived on the Volga, and by 430 the Huns had established a vast, if short-lived, dominion in Europe, conquering the Goths and many other Germanic peoples living outside of Roman borders, and causing many others to flee into Roman territory. Various proposed etymologies generally assume at least that the names of the various Eurasian groups known as Huns are related. [194] He also connects archaeological finds of Hunnish bronze cauldrons found buried near or in running water to possible rituals performed by the Huns in the Spring. [223] David Nicolle agrees with the latter point, and even suggests they had a complete set of engineering knowledge including skills for constructing advanced fortifications, such as the fortress of Igdui-Kala in Kazakhstan.[224]. [178] Priscus describes Hunnic women swarming around Attila as he entered a village, as well as the wife of Attila's minister Onegesius offering the king food and drink with her servants. [241] In legends surrounding Saint Servatius of Tongeren dating to at least the eighth century, Servatius is said to have converted Attila and the Huns to Christianity, before they later became apostates and returned to their paganism. [168] Hyun Jin Kim argues that the Huns may have used as many as four languages at various levels of government, without any one being dominant: Hunnic, Gothic, Latin, and Sarmatian. But most sections were only 2,000 to 3,000 li (621 to 932 miles) long. Some scholars also argue that another group identified in ancient sources as Huns, the North Caucasian Huns, were genuine Huns. [214]Several scholars have suggested that the Huns had trouble maintaining their horse cavalry and nomadic lifestyle after settling on the Hungarian Plain, and that this in turn led to a marked decrease in their effectiveness as fighters. Priscus noted that the Hunnic language differed from other languages spoken at Attila's court. [209] In particular, while Ammianus claims that the Huns knew no metalworking, Maenchen-Helfen argues that a people so primitive could never have been successful in war against the Romans. [134], There are two sources for the material culture and art of the Huns: ancient descriptions and archaeology. [219] They are described as preferring to defeat their enemies by deceit, surprise attacks, and cutting off supplies. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. For other uses, see, Territory under Hunnic control circa 450 AD, • Death of Bleda, Attila becomes sole ruler, Relation to the Xiongnu and other peoples called Huns, He argues for the existence of Hunnic shamans on the basis of the presence of the element. 2019 examined the remains of three males from three separate 5th century Hunnic cemeteries in the Pannonian Basin. The sword was carried in the "Iranian style" attached to a swordbelt, rather than on a baldric. This was Attila’s first and only defeat. Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as Pope Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor. [14], Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen was the first to challenge the traditional approach, based primarily on the study of written sources, and to emphasize the importance of archaeological research. [110], Hunnic governmental structure has long been debated. [16] Additionally, several scholars have questioned the identification of the "Iranian Huns" with the European Huns. Uldin was also known for defeating Gothic rebels giving trouble to the East Romans around the Danube and beheading the Goth Gainas around 400–401. [40] Maenchen-Helfen argues that, while many Huns had East Asian racial characteristics, they were unlikely to have looked as Asiatic as the Yakut or Tungus. [291], Extinct nomadic people in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe (4th-6th centuries), "Hun" redirects here. A combined army of Roman and Visigoths then defeated the Huns at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains. Some slaves were even used as warriors. [208] However, a number of Ammianus's claims have been challenged by modern scholars. [255] The Old Norse Thidrekssaga, however, which is based on North German sources, locates Hunaland in northern Germany, with a capital at Soest in Westphalia. In 463, the Saragurs defeated the Akatziri, or Akatir Huns, and asserted dominance in the Pontic region. [174] However, given the small corpus, many hold the language to be unclassifiable. [95] However, horse remains are absent from all identified Hun burials. [266] Simon claimed that the Huns and Hungarians were descended from two brothers, named Hunor and Magor. In 453 Attila died; his many sons divided up his empire and at once began quarreling among themselves. He administered his huge empire by means of “picked men” (logades), whose main function was the government of and the collection of food and tribute from the subject peoples who had been assigned to them by Attila. The Huns continued their invasion of the region and, as historian Herwig Wolfram writes, citing the ancient source of Ambrose, the chaos this caused was widespread: "the Huns fell upon the Alans, the Alans upon the Goths, and the Goths upon the [tribes of] the Taifali and Sarmatians" (73). https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hun-people, Ancient Origins - The End of the Huns: The Death of Attila and the Fall of the Hunnic Empire, Hun - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Huns - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). [275] Another claim, also derived from Simon of Kéza,[276] is that the Hungarian-speaking Székely people of Transylvania are descended from Huns, who fled to Transylvania after Attila's death, and remained there until the Hungarian conquest of Pannonia. [60] Huns attacked in Thrace, overran Armenia, and pillaged Cappadocia. [212] Accounts of battles note that the Huns fortified their camps by using portable fences or creating a circle of wagons. [196] Maenchen-Helfen also suggests the possibility that the Huns of this period may have worshipped Tengri, but notes that the god is not attested in European records until the ninth century. [9] Jordanes' Getica relates that the Goths held the Huns to be offspring of "unclean spirits"[10] and Gothic witches. [123] Priscus calls Attila "king" or "emperor" (βασιλέυς), but it is unknown what native title he was translating. They are led by Shan Yu. Maenchen-Helfen argues that humans appear to have been sacrificed at Attila's funerary rite, recorded in Jordanes under the name strava. [95] Based on anthropological descriptions and archaeological finds of other nomadic horses, Maenchen-Helfen believes that they rode mostly geldings. The new Eastern Roman Emperor Marcian then halted tribute payments, resulting in Attila planning to attack Constantinople. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. In 435 they forced the Eastern Roman Empire to sign the Treaty of Margus,[67] giving the Huns trade rights and an annual tribute from the Romans. [252] A version of the events of the Battle of Nadao may be preserved in a legend, transmitted in two differing versions in the Middle High German Rabenschlacht and Old Norse Thidrekssaga, in which the sons of Attila fall in battle. [171] On the basis of these names, scholars have proposed that Hunnic may have been a Turkic language,[172] a language between Mongolic and Turkic,[173] or a Yeniseian language. To build Cannon Galleons, the Cannon Galleon technology must be researched first. [3] The memory of the Huns also lived on in various Christian saints' lives, where the Huns play the roles of antagonists, as well as in Germanic heroic legend, where the Huns are variously antagonists or allies to the Germanic main figures. [79] They also "certainly" ate horse meat, drank mare's milk, and likely made cheese and kumis. The Huns, especially under their King Attila, made frequent and devastating raids into the Eastern Roman Empire. [109], Christopher Atwood has suggested that the reason for the original Hunnic incursion into Europe may have been to establish an outlet to the Black Sea for the Sogdian merchants under their rule, who were involved in the trade along the Silk Road to China. He also compares the name Massagetae, noting that the element saka in that name means dog. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. [139][140], Archaeological finds have produced a large number of cauldrons that have since the work of Paul Reinecke in 1896 been identified as having been produced by the Huns. [61] At the same time, the Huns invaded the Sasanian Empire. [233] Swords of this style have been found at sites such as Altlussheim, Szirmabesenyo, Volnikovka, Novo-Ivanovka, and Tsibilium 61. It also states the Huns used quilted linen, wool, or sometimes iron barding for their horses and also wore quilted coifs and kaftans. This article was most recently revised and updated by Michael Ray, Editor. [226][227] Hun lamellar armour has not been found in Europe, although two fragments of likely Hun origin have been found on the Upper Ob and in West Kazakhstan dating to the 3rd–4th centuries. [142] Maenchen-Helfen lists 19 known finds of Hunnish cauldrons from all over Central and Eastern Europe and Western Siberia. [c] These claims gave the Hungarians an ancient pedegree and served to legitimize their conquest of Pannonia.[268][269][270]. [234], The most famous weapon of the Huns is the Qum Darya-type composite recurve bow, often called the "Hunnish bow". About 470 he entered Italy with the Sciri; he joined As warriors, the Huns inspired almost unparalleled fear throughout Europe. [48] Kim argues that the composition of the Huns became progressively more "Caucasian" during their time in Europe; he notes that by the Battle of Chalons (451), "the vast majority" of Attila's entourage and troops appears to have been of European origin, while Attila himself seems to have had East Asian features. [4] Modern culture generally associates the Huns with extreme cruelty and barbarism. [7] Most typically, Roman writers' attempts to elucidate the origins of the Huns simply equated them with earlier steppe peoples. [217] As Heather notes, "the Huns' military machine increased, and increased very quickly, by incorporating ever larger numbers of the Germani of central and eastern Europe". From the Birth of the Ideology to Modernity – an Outline of the Problem", "Artificially deformed crania from the Hun-Germanic Period (5th–6th century AD) in northeastern Hungary: historical and morphological analysis", "Y-chromosome haplogroups from Hun, Avar and conquering Hungarian period nomadic people of the Carpathian Basin", "The Dating of Widsið and the Study of Germanic Antiquity", "Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West". [151], Hunnic armies relied on their high mobility and "a shrewd sense of when to attack and when to withdraw". They do not seem to have had a unified government when they entered Europe, but rather to have developed a unified tribal leadership in the course of their wars with the Romans. Corrections? [256][257] From the thirteenth-century onward, the Middle High German word for Hun, hiune, became a synonym for giant, and continued to be used in this meaning in the forms Hüne and Heune into the modern era. [261][262][263] The anonymous Gesta Hungarorum (after 1200) is the first Hungarian source to mention that the line of Árpádian kings were descendants of Attila, but he makes no claim that the Hungarian and Hun peoples are related. De la Vaissière argues that ancient Chinese and Indian sources used Xiongnu and Hun to translate each other,[19] and that the various "Iranian Huns" were similarly identified with the Xiongnu. The Magyars in fact originated from the Ugrian branch of the Finno-Ugrian peoples; in the course of their wanderings in the steppes of Eastern Europe they assimilated a variety of (especially Iranian and different Turkic) cultural and ethnic elements, but they had neither genetic nor historical links to the Huns. It is almost as if the imperialist empire and the east and west had combined their response to a simultaneous Hunnic threat across Eurasia. In 251AD the Romans found themselves under attack and defeated by the Goths who gained control of the Balkans and then Anatolia. Hun warfare as a whole is not well studied. This may indicate that Bede viewed the Anglo-Saxons as descending partially from the Huns. Uldin himself escaped back across the Danube, after which he is not mentioned again. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. All the so-called 'nomads' of Eurasian steppe history were peoples whose territory/territories were usually clearly defined, who as pastoralists moved about in search of pasture, but within a fixed territorial space. [185] Maenchen-Helfen notes a widespread worship of a war god in the form of a sword among steppe peoples, including among the Xiongnu. [118] E.A. In an anonymous medieval biography of Pope Leo I, Attila's march into Italy in 452 is stopped because, when he meets Leo outside Rome, the apostles Peter and Paul appear to him holding swords over his head and threatening to kill him unless he follows the pope's command to turn back. Although a truce was concluded in 441, two years later Constantinople again failed to deliver the tribute and war resumed. [68] War broke out between the Huns and Romans, and the Huns overcame a weak Roman army to raze the cities of Margus, Singidunum and Viminacium. Since Ammianus’s time the Huns had acquired huge sums of gold as a result of their treaties with the Romans as well as by way of plunder and by selling their prisoners back to the Romans. [14] In the end, Europe succeeded in repelling the Huns, and their power there quickly vanished, but in the east, both the Sasanian Empire and the Gupta Empire were left much weakened. Economically, they are known to have practiced a form of nomadic pastoralism; as their contact with the Roman world grew, their economy became increasingly tied with Rome through tribute, raiding, and trade. [62] Uldin, the first Hun identified by name in contemporary sources,[63] headed a group of Huns and Alans fighting against Radagaisus in defense of Italy. [5], The origins of the Huns and their links to other steppe people remain uncertain:[6] scholars generally agree that they originated in Central Asia but disagree on the specifics of their origins. [219] The Hunnish peoples did not set up an entrenched camp, but spread out across the grazing fields according to clan, and guard their necessary horses until they began forming the battle line under the cover of early morning. [244][245] Widsith also mentions Attila having been ruler of the Huns, placing him at the head of a list of various legendary and historical rulers and peoples and marking the Huns as the most famous. 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