The origin of the Huns and their relationship to other peoples identified in ancient sources as Iranian Huns such as the Xionites, the Alchon Huns, the...
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BYZANTINE EMPIRE ROMAN EMPIRE HUNS Lombards Franks TOCHARIANS Paleo-Siberians Samoyeds Tungus MEROË The origins of the Huns and their links to other steppe...
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Attila (redirect from Attila The Hun)
called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in early 453. He was also the leader of an empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths...
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The history of the Huns spans the time from before their first secure recorded appearance in Europe around 370 AD to after the disintegration of their...
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The term Iranian Huns is sometimes used for a group of different tribes that lived in Central Asia, in the historical regions of Transoxiana, Bactria,...
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Turkic migration (category History of the Turkic peoples)
migration of a homogeneous population. The Huns have often been considered a people with Turkic origins and/or associated with the Xiongnu. However, the precise...
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Hlöðskviða (redirect from The Battle of the Goths and Huns)
Hlöðskviða (also Hlǫðskviða and Hlǫðsqviða), known in English as The Battle of the Goths and Huns and occasionally known by its German name Hunnenschlachtlied...
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Hephthalites (redirect from Hephthalite Huns)
called White Huns [...] The Ephthalitae are of the stock of the Huns in fact as well as in name, however, they do not mingle with any of the Huns known to...
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Xiongnu language (section Other possible origins)
where they adopted the Kushan-Bactrian language. It should be known that there is no consensus about the linguistic origins of the Huns. Some scholars have...
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Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen (category Austrian emigrants to the United States)
''The Legend of the Origin of the Huns." Byzantion, vol. 17, pp. 244–251. Maenchen-Helfen, O. (1945). "The Yueh-chih Problem Re-examined." Journal of the...
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Witch hunt (redirect from Witch-hunts Around the World)
records a persecution and expulsion of witches among the Goths in a mythical account of the origin of the Huns. The ancient fabled King Filimer is said...
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related to the Huns who later entered Eastern Europe. However, the ethnolinguistic and geographical origins of the Khuni are unclear. The first contemporaneous...
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Hungarian prehistory (redirect from Origin of the Hungarians)
Mogor, by his wife Eneth. It was from them that the Huns, or Hungarians, took their origins. ... [A]s Hunor and Mogor were Ménrót's first born, they journeyed...
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Hunor and Magor were, according to Hungarian legend, the ancestors of the Huns and the Magyars. The legend was first promoted in Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum...
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The Nezak Huns (Pahlavi: 𐭭𐭩𐭰𐭪𐭩 nycky), also Nezak Shahs, was a significant principality in the south of the Hindu Kush region of South Asia from...
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The Azerbaijanis or Azeris are a Turkic ethnic group of mixed ethnic origins, primarily the indigenous peoples of eastern Transcaucasia, the Medians, an...
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shortly after the Hunas invasion of that region. The Gujara-Pratihara were "likely" formed from a fusion of the Alchon Huns ("White Huns") and native Indian...
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Pannonian Avars (redirect from Khagan of the Avars)
human history have made the Carpathian Basin the melting pot of Europe. New ancient genomes confirm the Asian origin of European Huns, Avars and Magyars and...
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The origin of the Albanians has been the subject of historical, linguistic, archaeological and genetic studies. The first mention of the ethnonym Albanoi...
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forward, the exact origin of the Pashtun tribes is acknowledged as being obscure. Modern scholars have suggested that a common and singular origin is highly...
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Bleda (redirect from Bleda the Hun)
united Hun tribes. At the time of their accession, the Huns were bargaining with Byzantine emperor Theodosius II's envoys over the return of several...
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question the association of the Székelys with the Huns in the 1870s. However, scholars have not reached a consensus about the origin of the Székelys. The modern...
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Hunnic language (category Huns)
The Hunnic language, or Hunnish, was the language spoken by Huns in the Hunnic Empire, a heterogeneous, multi-ethnic tribal confederation which invaded...
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(1948). A History of Attila and the Huns. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 142. Lindner, Rudi Paul (1981). "Nomadism, Horses, and Huns". Past and Present...
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Hungarians (redirect from People of Hungary)
Gál, Sándor Szilárd; Tomka, Péter; Török, Tibor (25 May 2022). "The genetic origin of Huns, Avars, and conquering Hungarians". Current Biology. 32 (13):...
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Theodosius II (redirect from Theodosius the Younger)
of gold to encourage the Huns to remain at peace with the Romans. In 433 with the rise of Attila and Bleda to unify the Huns, the payment was doubled to...
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misreading 'uns' for 'Huns'. The usage of the term "Hun" to describe Germans resurfaced during World War II, although less frequently than in the previous war...
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quoted in William Herbert, Attila, King of the Huns (London: Bohn) 1838:350f. Patrick Howarth, Attila, King of the Huns: Man and Myth 1995:183f. András Róna-Tas...
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subdued by the Huns in the 4th century and that they, as part of the Hunnic army, migrated to the western edge of the Hunnic Empire (in the area of Central...
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