Biography of Attila, King of the Huns

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Attila was the most powerful king and the last of the Huns, a nomadic people from Asia. The biographical data we have about him are very few because we do not know much of what he it was his life so his history and feats emanate mainly from legends and chronicles Roman. Next, in this lesson from a TEACHER we offer you a brief biography of Attila, king of the Huns that he was known as "the scourge of the gods”Since in his conquests he sacked all the cities that were in his path.

Index

1. Attila - Historical Context
2. Conquests of the Attila empire
3. Death of Attila, King of the Huns

We start this biography of Attila, King of the Huns speaking of the historical context of this character. He was probably a descendant of one of the ruling families of the Huns, a tribe of Asian origin, a mixture of Mongols and Turks whose settlement of origin is not true either, but it is believed that it would be over Mongolia and northwest China.

Before his reign, around the 4th century the Huns controlled large areas of land between the Volga rivers, Don, but especially the Danube; In fact, it was near this river that they settled after several attacks against the decadent Eastern Roman Empire, this proximity was what made it have a greater role in its story.

They even came to agree with the Roman army to face the attack of the Germans; We also know that by the year 432 the chronicles refer to the presence of a king, Rugila, Attila's uncle for whom he ended up being his successor after his death, However, the throne not only fell into the hands of Attila, but he had to share it with his brother, Bleda, whom he would end up assassinating a short time later in the year 445.

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It is said that Attila was a man of great ambitions and after seizing only the power of the Huns he soon advanced with his small army ddetermined and sure to invade Europe, to such an extent that by his death the empire reached such expansion that it reached from all that is central Europe to the Black Sea and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea, an empire that only lasted 20 years of his reign because after his death all that he had achieved was dissolved.

By the year 447 he marches through Iliria (an ancient historical territory of the Balkan Peninsula) devastating every town that he encountered. His tactic consisted of scaring rather than destroying, trying at all times to obtain the surrender of his enemies with a very cruel approach, that does not mean that his actions were violent, only that it is true that they were frightening.

In the same way had confrontations with him Byzantine Empire reaching his capital, Constantinople, during the reign of Theodosius II, which he ended up defeating and forcing to surrender a part of the empire of him, the located more to the south of the Danube and to pay an annual tribute.

In the year 451 enters Gaul Already with a larger army formed mainly by Ostrogoths and after the alliance signed with Genseric, king of the Vandals, they confront Flavio Aetius trying to occupy Aurelianum. For this, the battle took place in the Catalan Fields, this being the first time among so many battles in which Attila had to withdraw after being defeated by the Roman army. Aetius tolerated the Huns to distance themselves from the empire's borders to the River Rhine.

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We finish this biography of Attila, King of the Huns talking about the last years of his life. In 452, still not fully recovered from the French defeat, he crossed Italy to loot the roman cities from Padua, Aquileia, Verona, Bergamo, Brescia and Milan, now yes, without Aetius being able to stop him.

In the East, the new emperor, Marciano stopped paying the tribute that he had agreed with Theodosius II, so Attila in the year 453 prepared to attack him, however, death caught him by surprise, preventing said confrontation.

The causes of his death are also unknown, but he tells that he died from a nosebleed on the night of his wedding. After his death, all the power that the Huns had achieved with Attila, disappeared because the different disputes over who to get hold of the throne between the four children of him caused that the attack of Arderico in the year 454 before a defenseless empire caused the total destruction of him.

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