The HUNOS and ATILA: summary

Thinking about great invasions over Europe arrivals from Asia area and that they changed the European panorama, we usually think of the Huns, being one of the most feared peoples in history and especially known for their great leader Attila. To know the history of this people from its origins in Asia to its end in Europe in this lesson from a PROFESSOR we will offer a Huns summary, a very important Asian people throughout history.

The origin of the Huns It has been a subject of study for centuries and today we still do not know exactly what its true origin was. Some of the origins that are spoken of are about a possible Iranian origin in the area of ​​the Scythians, others relate the Huns with the Xiongnu barbarians in Mongolia who for years attacked Han China, and even other sources speak of their origin in the area Turkish.

Today the most widely accepted theory is that of its xiongnu origin, either because of their cultural similarities, the similarity of their languages ​​and that there are similar artistic works between the two peoples, which is the reason why in this lesson we will talk about the theory of the xiongnu by its greater acceptance.

Who were the xiongnu

The Xiongnu were a nomadic and cattle people of Mongolian origin It was located north of the Great Wall of China, and it is said that this great construction was erected by China to defend itself from their attacks. The Xiongnu had succeeded in unifying the steppe tribes of Mongolia, and thus the Han dynasty had been forced to reach an agreement through tributes and marriages so as not to be attacked by they. It is said that thanks to these tributes the Xiongnu began to trade with the West, being the beginning of the relationship of this people with Europe, and the birth of part of the Silk Road.

After years of fighting, the Chinese people managed to defeat the Xiongnu and these had to withdraw to the west. After this, the sources about the Xiongnu people disappear and we only have small notes on what their movements could have been from that moment on.

It was at this time that emerged from these xiongnu we have the first denomination of the Huns.

In the year 350 is when we have information about the first appearance of the huns as such, being the Persian and Roman sources the ones that tell us of a people called Hun who had attacked the Sasanian Empire. It is said that the Persians were able to stop the Huns and they joined the Persians as part of their army in their fights against the Romans. During years, the Huns became Iranian, mixing the traditions of both their people and the Iranians and forming a new culture, finally and after many years they separated from the Persians forming a new dynasty.

It was at this time that a large number of peoples that we can consider as Huns began to conquer numerous regions of the Persian area and India, bringing numerous wars to this area and being one of the causes that these peoples could not progress enough. This can be considered the birth of the so-called Hun people, beginning their stage of conquest over all those people who dared to confront them.

Shortly after, the Huns attacked peoples like the Goths or the Alans, forcing them to leave for Rome, these attacks being key due to the influence that these peoples barbarians had for the history of Europe and also for being the cause of the Huns marching towards Europe. The retreat of these peoples to Europe caused the Huns to pursue them, initiating the contacts of the Huns with the Romans.

To continue with this summary of the history of the Huns we must talk about the history of this people in Europe, being the stage of greatest relevance of these and the reason that their importance and fame.

In 395 the Huns began their first attacks on the Roman empireTheir attacks were so hard that there are numerous Roman texts speaking of the Huns as if they were real monsters. During the early years the Huns attacked the easternmost Roman provinces, approaching little by little to Rome, and it was already normal to hear from the capital stories about the atrocities of the Huns.

In 434 Attila Y Bleda they were named rulers of the huns, forcing Rome to pay them an annual tribute so as not to receive their attacks. Shortly after the Romans broke the peace agreement and the Huns razed numerous cities Romans, causing Rome to have to re-sign a peace agreement much more expensive than the previous. After two years, the Romans stopped paying and the Huns attacked again, being very close to taking Constantinople. It was at this stage that Bleda died and Attila became the sole ruler of the Huns.

During years, Attila was the scourge of Europe, defeating Romans, Franks, Visigoths, sacking Italy, and laying waste to everything he could. It is said that he only stopped when Pope Leo I begged him not to destroy the holy city of Rome, being then when Attila withdrew from Europe and died on his wedding night in 453, ending Rome's greatest enemy in centuries.

After Attila's death, the Huns entered an internal dispute which ended with defeat at the Battle of Nedao, and the end of the Huns as a world power. The Germanic peoples took the place of the Huns, and it was they who influenced Europe by taking the main regions and ending their influence in the West.

After these facts, heThe Huns divided into numerous peoples that in a few decades they had nothing to do with each other. We are not sure what the fate of the Huns was, but most experts consider that they were absorbed by the Bulgarians, thus the Huns being the origins of the proto Bulgarians.