Widely known as attila the hun, was the eemperor of the huns from 434 until his death in 453, the hun was leader of the hunnic empire which stretched from Ggermany to the ural river and from the river danube to the baltic Ssea.
The huns were nomads who had moved from the steppes of central asia into eastern europe in the fourth century ce. Prior to this, the huns had already afflicted the northern border of china for some centuries.
In 445 ce Attila gained absolute power by killing this brother. The territory of the huns, with pannonia along the danube as their base of sortie, had no fixed boundaries and attila the hun did not govern it as a state.
the hun earned a bad reputation as plunderer among various germanic nations and he lent his troops archers on horseback as mercenary forces to the western roman empire. Through extortion he could collect even more gold from the eastern roman emperor in constantinople.
When attila the hun also started pillaging in gaul, the romans and visigoths joined forces and dealt him a defeat, on the catalaunian fields near the present day chalons en champagne. A short raid through northern italy was his final threat to rome. Attila the hun died the next year from an alcohol overdose combined with a nosebleed.
In all recorded history, rarely has a man been feared as much as attila, king of the fifth century huns. The length of his rule a mere eight years pales when compared with the vast spread of his carnage. His legend, already significant in his own lifetime, obscures some of the lesser known facts about his character.
A fearsome king of a fearsome people, attila drank from a wooden cup while offering guests refreshments in goblets of gold. Relying on dedicated foreign advisors, attila decimated town after town. A man of apparent contradictions, according to the only surviving record written by an historian who knew him, he died in his prime after a night of heavy drinking.
No one represents the unbridled fury and savagery of barbarism
as much as attila the hun, even in the twentieth century one
of the worst names that could be found for the germans
was to call them huns. Attila, as the greatest hun leader,
is the stereotypical sacker of cities and killer of babies.
In his own day he and his huns were known as the scourge of
god, and the devastation they caused in gaul before the great
battle of chalons in 451 ad became a part of medieval folklore
and tradition.
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