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Sentence Examples In total, 31 huns were buried in the tombs that were discovered at the foot of Salkhit of Rashaant Soum in Khuvsgul Province. The Vandals and Visigoths were allowed to live in the Roman Empire as long as they gave a promise to protect the empire from the Huns. These mud flats provided a haven for the people who fled here, such as Huns, Visigoths and other marauders in the fifth century. Greeks, Romans, Huns, and Bulgars invaded the area, which in the 13 th century became part of the Mongol empire. In the fourth century, the Huns, a nomadic people from central Asia, began attacking the German tribes. By the late second century C.E., peoples such as the Slavs, Germans, Huns, and Bohemians began to raid Austria. In the third century A.D., Asiatic Huns replaced the Goths and were in turn conquered by Turkic Avars in the sixth century. But, over the centuries, Persians, Greeks, Parthians, Kushans, and White Huns invaded India. Most believe Rajputs come from tribes in central Asia such as the Parthians, Kushans, Shakas, and Huns. Beginning in the third century A.D., tribes of Goths, Huns, and Avars invaded the region. When Rome collapsed in the fifth century AD, Trieste was overrun by the Huns, and then fell under Byzantine rule. In the first two decades of the 5th century, the Huns arrived in central Europe and subjugated many Germanic peoples. Invasions by the Huns and the Khazars between the 3rd and 9th centuries mixed Ukrainian bloodlines with those from all over Asia. We stumbled in to the Lager House like conquering Huns drunk on French wine. The Huns were barbarians, but the Carthaginians certainly were not. Further south, a group of Suebi settled in parts of Pannonia, after the Huns were defeated in 454 in the Battle of Nedao. Although the Huns successfully subdued many of the Goths, who joined their ranks, a group of Goths led by Fritigern fled across the Danube. In the late fourth century, the Huns arrived from the east and invaded the region controlled by the Goths. The Huns fell upon the Thervingi, whose staunchly pagan ruler, Athanaric, sought refuge in the mountains. In the battle, the united army of Gepids, Rugii, Sarmatians and Suebi routed the Huns and their allies, including the Ostrogoths. Show More Sentences In the 4th century AD, some of the Scirii lived in the Carpathians, where they were defeated by the Huns. The Goths suffered setbacks against the Huns, made a mass migration across the Danube, and fought a war with Rome. Theodoric was born in Pannonia in 454, after his people had defeated the Huns at the Battle of Nedao. This was just a year after the Ostrogoths had thrown off nearly a century of domination by the Huns. The Ostrogoths became vassals of the Huns until the death of Attila, when they revolted and regained independence. The Amali Goths would revolt the same year under Valamir, allegedly defeating the Huns in a separate engagement. In 463, the Saragurs defeated the Akatziri, or Akatir Huns, and asserted dominance in the Pontic region. The Chinese gentry, so far as they still existed, preferred to work with him rather than with the feudalist Huns. Later the Bastarnae were defeated by the Huns sometime during the 4th or 5th century AD which ended their regional domination. The arrival of the nomadic Huns along the Black Sea corridor in AD 375 further accelerated the Goth's exodus across the Roman border. In 376 the East faced an enormous barbarian influx across the Danube, mostly Goths who were refugees from the Huns. Maximus boasted to Ambrose of the numbers of barbarians in his forces, and hordes of Goths, Huns, and Alans followed Theodosius. During the next year, 397, Eutropius personally led his troops to victory over some Huns who were marauding in Asia Minor. Meanwhile, groups of Huns started a series of attacks across the Danube, and the Isaurians marauded far and wide in Anatolia. They may have been trying to get away from the Huns, who about this time advanced to occupy the Great Hungarian Plain. His subjects included Huns, outnumbered several times over by other groups, predominantly Germanic. When Albanactus was murdered by Humber, King of the Huns, Camber joined Locrinus in attacking and defeating him. The arrival of the Huns helped prompt many groups to invade the provinces for economic reasons. Siberia was inhabited by different groups of nomads such as the Enets, the Nenets, the Huns, the Scythians and the Uyghurs. Falconry made its entry to Europe only after AD 400, brought in from the East after invasions by the Huns and Allans. Show More Sentences After these invasions, the Huns begin to be noted as Foederati and mercenaries. As early as 380, a group of Huns was given Foederati status and allowed to settle in Pannonia. It is uncertain though, whether or not Eutropius' forces defeated the Huns or whether the Huns left on their own. The Huns do not then appear to have been a single force with a single ruler. Many Huns were employed as mercenaries by both East and West Romans and by the Goths. Uldin, the first Hun known by name, headed a group of Huns and Alans fighting against Radagaisus in defense of Italy. These were countered by another small band of Huns hired by Honorius' minister Olympius. Later in 409, the West Romans stationed ten thousand Huns in Italy and Dalmatia to fend off Alaric, who then abandoned plans to march on Rome. In 435 they forced the Eastern Roman Empire to sign the Treaty of Margus, giving the Huns trade rights and an annual tribute from the Romans. War broke out between the two empires, and the Huns overcame a weak Roman army to raze the cities of Margus, Singidunum and Viminacium. In 447, Attila turned the Huns back toward the Eastern Roman Empire once more. Victory over a Roman army left the Huns virtually unchallenged in Eastern Roman lands and they raided as far south as Thermopylae. In 458 some Huns served under Tudila in Majorian's army, probably belonging to a group settled under Emnetzur and Ultzindur in Dacia Ripensis. The Romans, under their General Aspar and with the help of his bucellarii, then attacked the quarreling Goths and Huns, defeating them. The description of Huns given by the Romans has prompted some historians to believe they were of East Asian origin. Like so many other people, the Huns inflicted wounds on their live flesh as a sign of grief when their kinsmen were dying. Artificial cranial deformation was practiced by the Huns and sometimes by tribes under their influence. In the past many scholars argued that the Huns did not have a central organization until after they entered Europe. Likewise, it is suggested that that the Huns continued to use the decimal military organization of the Xiongnu as well. An example would be the Germanic or Germanized names of noted Huns like Laudaricus. Show More Sentences Hun warfare as a whole is not well studied, and many scholars as of recent have discounted Ammianus' description of the Huns. Thompson, who stated that the Huns could never have conquered Europe without iron armor and weapons. The Huns brought large numbers of horses to use as replacements and to give the impression of a larger army on campaign. The Strategikon also states the Huns used deep formations with a dense and even front. The Huns preferred to fight at long range, utilizing ambush, encirclement, and the feigned retreat. It also states the Huns used quilted linen, wool, or sometimes iron barding for their horses and also wore quilted coifs and kaftans. Chroniclers writing centuries later often mentioned or alluded to Huns or their purported descendants. They therefore could not have been related to the Huns, who most likely spoke an Oghur Turkic dialect. To fend off the Huns, Theodosius had to pay an enormous annual tribute to Attila. After Attila's death in 453, the Hunnic Empire collapsed, and many of the remaining Huns were often hired as mercenaries by Constantinople. The Roman defences were again overthrown in the early 5th century by the Visigoths and, some 50 years later, by the Huns led by Attila. South and west Bohemia were raided by nomads and Huns, while in the sixth century Bohemia became a through route for Thuringians and Langobards. The raids of the Huns and Ostrogoths in the 5th century ravaged the town and the earthquake a century later added to its demise. The Huns living in Germanic territories in Eastern Europe adopted an East Germanic language as their lingua franca. Sometime during the 4th or 5th century AD, the Bastarnae were defeated by the Huns, ending their regional domination. However, there is no scholarly consensus on a direct connection between the dominant element of the Xiongnu and that of the Huns. The Huns may have stimulated the Great Migration, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. They are the only ones among the Huns who have white bodies and countenances which are not ugly. Both the Xiongnu and Huns used bronze cauldrons, similarly to all peoples of the steppes. The Huns practised artificial cranial deformation, but there is no evidence of such practice among the Xiongnu. Show More Sentences In addition to the Huns, the custom is also evidenced among the Yuezhi and Alans. Their sudden appearance in the written sources suggests that the Huns crossed the Volga River from the east not much earlier. He hired Huns to fight against the Alans who invaded the Greuthungi's land, but he was killed in a battle. After Vithimiris's death, most Greuthungi submitted themselves to the Huns. Like the Huns, the Goths in Crimea never regained their lost glory. During the late 5th and early 6th century, the Crimean Goths had to fight off hordes of Huns who were migrating back eastward after losing control of their European empire. At the same time, the Huns were also dealing with the arrival of more Oghur Turkic speaking peoples from the East, including the Oghurs, Saragurs, Onogurs, and the Sabirs. They were exploited by corrupt officials rather than effectively resettled, and they took up arms, joined by more Goths and by some Alans and Huns. The western Huns under Dengzich were experiencing difficulties in 461, when they were defeated by Valamir in a war against the Sadages, a people allied with the Huns. His campaigning was also met with dissatisfaction from Ernak, ruler of the Akatziri Huns, who wanted to focus on the incoming Oghur speaking peoples. The strengthening of the Danube fleet caused the Kutrigur Huns to withdraw and they agreed to a treaty that allowed safe passage back across the Danube. With the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the west, the papacy became a political player, first visible in Pope Leo's diplomatic dealings with Huns and Vandals. Frequently the Ostrogoths fought alongside both Alans and Huns. The rise of the Huns around 370 overwhelmed the Gothic kingdoms. In 376 AD, displaced by the invasions of the Huns, the Goths, led by Alavivus and Fritigern, asked to be allowed to settle in the Eastern Roman Empire. After they subjugated the Alans, the Huns and their Alan auxiliaries started plundering the wealthy settlements of the Greuthungi, or eastern Goths, to the west of the Don. They subsequently accompanied the Huns in their westward expansion. They consisted of various Indo European tribes such as Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, Huns, Avars and Thracians most of which were influenced by the rich Persian culture. Older remnants are from the White Huns, Kushans and Sassanids. These Alans successfully invaded the Goths in 375 together with the Huns. Show More Sentences Huns attacked in Thrace, overran Armenia, and pillaged Cappadocia. After the Gothic entry to the steppe, many of the Alans seem to have retreated eastwards towards the Don, where they seem to have established contacts with the Huns. The Strategikon states the Huns also stationed sentries at significant distances and in constant contact with each other in order to prevent surprise attacks. The focus of Roman energy had to be on the emerging threat of the Huns. The Gepid warriors fought along with the Huns during the next decades. This resulted in many desertions from Uldin's group of Huns. The Strategikon states the Huns preferred to pursue their enemies relentlessly after a victory and then wear them out by a long siege after defeat. According to a scholarly theory, the westward migration of the Huns forced the tribes to flee from the Carpathian Basin and seek refuge in the Roman Empire. From 434 the brothers Attila and Bleda ruled the Huns together. The Huns used a type of spatha in the Iranic or Sassanid style, with a long, straight approximately 83cm blade, usually with a diamond shaped iron guard plate. With their southern border protected by the terms of this treaty, the Huns could turn their full attention to the further subjugation of tribes to the west. Before the invasion of the Huns, the Gothic Chernyakhov culture produced jewelry, vessels, and decorative objects in a style much influenced by Greek and Roman craftsmen. The Huns returned to their lands with a vast train full of plunder. The Huns, a confederation of central Asian tribes, founded an empire. The period of Goth rule ended when the Huns arrived in the Pannonian Basin and, under Attila, attacked and destroyed some 170 settlements on both sides of the Danube. Secondly, an East Roman force had crossed the Danube and defeated the Huns who had been left behind by Attila to safeguard their home territories. Some of the other Alans remained under the rule of the Huns. Examples from Classical Literature The latter is considered to be a likely point of attack on the part of the huns. Goths, Vandals, huns, each in their own good time had joined in the attack. Then came the crisis of the invasion of the huns under their King Balamber. She thinks the huns are waking up and civilisations going under. To her also for the moment the scientific savagery of the huns was remote. No one but a nation of pirates, of ferocious and conscienceless huns, could have inaugurated such a campaign. Athanaric staked his all on one battle with the Huns, and lost, by the rivers of Bessarabia. Suddenly one of the Huns burst into flames and came toppling down behind his lines, his gas tank ablaze. The jocks, bombing their way through from the firing-line, very soon took care of them, though some Huns got away in the dark. Attila and his Huns were the first to break through into Nordic lands as far as the plains of northern France. The Huns had scuppered this battery and ransacked their dug-outs. This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it. Too late the astounded and terrified Huns sought to submerge. The Huns were releasing prodigious quantities of poison gas. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. Avars, a tribe of Huns who, driven from their home in the Altai Mts. The legendary hosts of Goths and Huns, the hugest armies Asia has ever seen, would have been but a drop in that current. Find more words! 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