Between the fourth and sixth centuries AD, the nomadic Huns inhabited Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. In accordance with European legend, they were initially noted to be residing east of the Volga River, in a region which at the time belonged to Scythia; the arrival of the Huns is connected to the westward movement of an Iranian group known as the Alans. The Huns emerged on the Volga by 370 AD and by 430 AD, they had founded a sizable, if brief, reign in Europe. They had subjugated the Goths and several other Germanic peoples that resided beyond the Roman frontiers, and they had driven many others inside Roman territory. Under their King Attila in particular, the Huns often and brutally raided the Eastern Roman Empire. They attacked Italy in 452, before which they raided the Western Roman province of Gaul in 451 A.D. During the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields, they clashed with a joint Roman and Visigothic army. Following the Battle of Nedao in 453 A.D. and the death of Attila, the Huns stopped to pose a significant danger to Rome and lost much of their empire. It is known that between the fourth and sixth century, descendants of the Huns—or successor groups with names identical to their own—occupied regions of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Up until the early eighth century, Hun name variations were documented in the Caucasus. The Xiongnu people, who flourished in northern China from the third century BC E until the late first century AD, have been connected to the Huns. Recent archaeogenetic research also points to the Mongolian Xiongnu origins of the Huns as well as their possible hybridization with Scythian and Germanic people [Information and Image Credit : Huns, Wikipedia] [Image : Territory under Hunnic control circa 450 AD] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported ; Wikipedia Image Author : Slovenski Volk ; (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property)] [License Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en ] [Source Image URL : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Huns450.png ]
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