At times they put themselves at the service of Rome. Attila, king of the Huns from 445, invades Gaul. At the head of a Roman-Germanic coalition, Aetius defeats Attila at the Battle of the ...
They were the Huns, and within a few decades—led by the notorious king Attila—they would battle the Romans in what’s now eastern France. The Huns’ invasions forced the Roman Empire to ...
Scientists have discovered a genetic link between the Huns who ravaged Europe in the latter years of the Western Roman Empire and the Xiongnu confederacy that lived on the Mongolian steppe before ...
Attila the Hun is an excellent look at the state of the Roman world in the fifth century, but Hughes fails to answer an important question; why is Attila, who inflicted far less harm on the empire ...
The Huns’ invasions forced the Roman Empire to retreat, contributing to its eventual fall. “They had, for a very short time, a very big impact,” Ursula Brosseder, an archaeologist at the ...