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96-541: Turopolje forms part of Posavina , a region south of Zagreb bordering the right banks of the Sava River on the east, and the Vukomericke Gorice hills to the southwest. It extends across an alluvial plain 45 km in length and up to 23 km in width. The area of the region occupies an area of about 600 km, with an average elevation of 110 m above sea level. Turopolje is divided into two halves by

192-585: A Germanic tribe, the Burgundi (Burgundians), although this identification was rejected by Maenchen-Helfen (who speculated that one or both names may have approximated an early Turkic ethnonym, such as " Vurugundi "). It is sometimes claimed that the Roman historian Tacitus ( c.  56 – c.  120 CE ) had first mentioned the Huns in 91 CE. However, this is a misinterpretation that has arisen because

288-627: A Hunnic victory: the Huns had already been leaving Gaul after a successful campaign and simply continued to do so after the battle. Upon his return to Pannonia, Attila ordered the launching of raids into Illyricum to encourage the Eastern Roman Empire to resume its tribute. Rather than attacking the Eastern Empire, however, in 452 he invaded Italy. The precise reasons for this are unclear: the Chronicle of 452 claims that it

384-648: A Turkic nomadic people who first appear in historical sources around 480, may have claimed to be descended from Attila via Ernak, as recorded in the Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans . Kim and Denis Sinor argue that Ernak combined the remaining Huns with new Oghur-speaking Turkic tribes that had been pushed east from the steppe to form the Bulgars. Kim also argues that the Kutrigurs and Utigurs , often considered

480-545: A further large campaign against the Eastern Roman Empire to 443; however Maenchen-Helfen, Kim, and Heather date it to around 447, after Attila had become sole ruler of the Huns. In 444, tensions rose between the Huns and the Western Empire, and the Romans made preparations for war; however, the tensions appear to have resolved the following year through the diplomacy of Cassiodorus . The terms seem to have involved

576-422: A gift from Uldin. The guard was either killed with Stilicho, or is the same as an elite unit of 300 Huns who continued to fight for the Romans against Alaric even after Uldin's invasion. During this same time, probably between 405 and 408, the future Roman magister militum and opponent of Attila Flavius Aetius was a hostage living among the Huns. Sources on the Huns after Uldin are scarce. In 412 or 413,

672-460: A large army of Huns to fight against forces of the Eastern Empire. The campaign ended with reconciliation, and the Huns received gold and returned to their lands. In 427, however, the Romans broke their alliance with the Huns and attacked Pannonia, perhaps reconquerring part of it. It is unclear when Ruga and his brother Octar became the supreme rulers of the Huns: Ruga appears to have ruled

768-500: A much larger force than any one of their tribes could have put to the field". Hyun Jin Kim argues that Jordanes has invented Balamber on the basis of the 5th century figure Valamer . However, Maenchen-Helfen credits that Balamber was a historic king, and Denis Sinor suggests that "Balamber was merely the leader of a tribe or an ad hoc group of warriors". After they subjugated the Alans,

864-412: A significant turning point, it by no means ended Hunnic rule over most of their subject peoples. According to Heather, rather than an immediate collapse, the end of Hunnic rule was a slow process whereby the Huns gradually lost control over their subject peoples. The Huns continued to exist under Attila's sons Dengizich and Ernak. Kim argues that Dengizich had successfully reestablished Hunnic rule over

960-881: A small number of people have returned to their homes. The majority of refugees live in and around the city of Slavonski Brod , Croatia right across the Sava River , while a minority emigrated to the European Union countries, the United States , and Australia . The towns Sava flows to or in vicinity from northwest to southeast include: Cities and towns in Slovenia Cities and towns in Croatia Cities and towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina Cities and towns in Serbia History of

1056-617: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Posavina Posavina ( Serbian Cyrillic : Посавина ) is a geographical region that stretches along the Sava river, encompassing only the inner areas of the Sava river basin , that are adjacent or near to the Sava river itself, namely catch region spanning from the Julian Alps in the northwest to the confluence with the Danube in

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1152-575: Is first attested as a confidant of Attila, was actually a Hun. Around 464, Valamir's Goths fought the Sciri, resulting in Valamir's death – this in turn caused the Goths to virtually destroy the Sciri. Dengizich then intervened – Kim supposes that the Sciri appealed to him for help, and that they together defeated the Goths. In a battle dated by Jordanes to 465, but by Kim to 470 after the death of Dengizich,

1248-456: Is identified in sources both as a Hun and as a Gepid. Kim explains the fact that Ardaric's kingdom was identified as a Gepid rather than a Hunnic kingdom from the fact that the western part of the Hunnic empire had been almost entirely Germanic in population. The Sciri also emerged from Attila's empire with a potentially Hunnic King: Edeko is first encountered in sources as Attila's envoy, and

1344-467: Is traditionally held to have collapsed suddenly after the death of Attila the year after the invasion of Italy. The Huns themselves are usually thought to have disappeared after the death of his son Dengizich in 469. However, some scholars have argued that the Bulgars in particular show a high degree of continuity with the Huns. Hyun Jin Kim has argued that the three major Germanic tribes to emerge from

1440-439: Is variously identified as having a Hunnic or Thuringian mother. While Heather believes that the latter is more likely, Kim argues that Edeco was in fact a Hun and that Thuringian in the source is a mistake for Torcilingi . Accordingly, his sons Hunoulph ("Hun-wolf") and Odoacer , who would go on to conquer Italy, would also be Huns ethnically, though the armies they led were certainly mostly Germanic. Odoacer would also conquer

1536-731: The Eastern Roman Empire and Sasanian Empire to jointly defend the passes through the Caucasus mountains. The Huns first invaded the land of the Alans , which was located to the east of the Don River , defeating them and forcing the survivors to submit themselves to them or to flee across the Don. Maenchen-Helfen believes that rather than a direct conquest, the Huns instead allied themselves with groups of Alans. Writing much later,

1632-670: The Gepids under Ardaric to rebel. The Huns under Ellac then fought the Gepids and were defeated, resulting in Ellac's death. According to Jordanes, this occurred at the Battle of Nedao in 454, however, Heather speculates that there may have been more than just a single battle. Some tribes, such as the Sciri , fought on the Huns' side against the Gepids. He also notes that, while 454 may have been

1728-682: The Hungarian Plain and likely crossed the Rhine near Koblenz . The Hunnic army included, besides Huns, the Gepids, Rugii , Sciri , Thuringi , Ostrogoths . Thompson suggests that Attila's first objective was the Ripuarian Franks, whom he summarily conquered and drafted into his army. They then captured Metz and Trier , before heading to besiege Orléans , with another detachment unsuccessfully attacking Paris . The approach of Aetius' army, consisting of Romans and allies such as

1824-613: The Rogii , a tribe typically identified with the Rugii found in Tacitus ' Germania , but whom Kim holds far more likely to be a newly formed tribe that was named after the Hunnic king Ruga . The Goths led by the Amali dynasty under their king Valamir also became independent some time after 454. This did not include all Goths, however, some of whom are recorded as continuing to fight with

1920-513: The Roxolani ", according to Ptolemy. However, modern scholars such as E. A. Thompson have claimed that the similarity of the ethnonyms Khounoi and Hun were coincidental. Maenchen-Helfen and Denis Sinor also dispute the association of the Khounoi with Attila's Huns. However, Maenchen-Helfen concedes that Ammianus Marcellinus referred to Ptolemy's report of the Khounoi , when stating that

2016-732: The Sasanian Empire ; Martin Schottky claims that "Attila’s death in 453 C.E. saved the Sasanians from an armed encounter with the Huns while they were at the height of their military power". Peter Heather, however, finds it unlikely that the Huns would have actually attacked Persia. According to Jordanes, Attila's death precipitated a power struggle between his sons – it is unknown how many there were in total, but ancient sources mention three by name: Ellac , Dengizich and Ernak . The brothers began fighting one another, and this caused

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2112-632: The Taifali and "other tribes that formerly dwelt with the Goths and Taifali" to the north of the Lower Danube, according to Zosimus. Food shortage and abuse stirred the Goths to revolt in early 377. The ensuing war between the Goths and the Romans lasted for more than five years. During the Gothic War, the Goths appear to have allied with a group of Huns and Alans, who crossed

2208-543: The 15th century), Lekenik, Vukojevac , Peščenica, Buševec, Ogulinec, Vukovina, Poljana Lekenička and Brežana Lekenička. The village of Vukojevac is currently in the middle of an environmental battle in order to reroute the proposed highway between Zagreb and Sisak. There is a pig breed from the region named the Turopolje pig . 45°39′N 16°09′E  /  45.650°N 16.150°E  / 45.650; 16.150 This Central Croatian geography article

2304-515: The Akatziri in 463. Without his brother, Dengizich was forced to rely on the recently conquered Ostrogoths and the "unreliable" Bittigur tribe. His forces also included the Hunnic tribes of the Ultzinzures, Angiscires, and Bardores. The Romans were able to encourage the Goths in his army to revolt, forcing Dengizich to retreat. He died in 469, with Kim believing he was murdered, and his head

2400-558: The Alans who invaded the Greuthungi's land, but he was killed in a battle. Kim suggests that Ammianus has muddled events: the Alans, fleeing the Huns, likely attacked the Goths, who then called upon the Huns for aid. The Huns, having dealt with the Alans, "probably then in Machiavellian fashion fell upon the weakened Greuthungi Goths and conquered them as well". After Vithimiris's death, most Greuthungi submitted themselves to

2496-468: The Danube and forced the Romans to allow the Goths to advance further into Thrace. The Huns are mentioned intermittently among their allies until 380, after which they apparently returned beyond the Danube. Additionally, in 381, the Sciri and Carpi , together with at least some Huns, launched an unsuccessful attack upon Pannonia . Once Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I made peace with the Goths in 382,

2592-567: The Eastern Empire was in a worse state than the West. Kim believes that the campaign had been a success and that the Huns simply withdrew after acquiring enough booty to satisfy them. In 453, Attila was reportedly planning a major campaign against the Eastern Romans to force them to resume paying tribute. However, he died unexpectedly, reportedly of a hemorrhage during his wedding to a new bride. He may also have been planning an invasion of

2688-686: The Frontier comprised parts of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia  – the southern parts of Slavonia and Syrmia , stretching from Nova Gradiška to the confluence of the Drina river into the Sava. Between 1929 and 1939, one of the provinces of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was known as the Croatian region Sava Banovina . The capital city of the province was Zagreb in Croatia . In 1939, Sava Banovina

2784-666: The Hunnic empire, the Gepids , the Ostrogoths , and the Sciri , were all heavily Hunnicized, and may have had Hunnic rather than native rulers even after the end of Hunnic dominion in Europe. It is possible that the Huns were directly or indirectly responsible for the fall of the Western Roman Empire , and they have been directly or indirectly linked to the dominance of Turkic tribes on the Eurasian steppe following

2880-408: The Hunnic royal tombs and that the Romans themselves had breached the treaty by sheltering refugees from the Hunnic empire. When the Romans failed to turn over either the bishop of Margus or the refugees by 441, the Huns sacked a number of towns and captured the city of Viminacium , razing it to the ground. The bishop of Margus, terrified that he would be handed over to the Huns, made a deal to betray

2976-524: The Huns The history of the Huns spans the time from before their first secure recorded appearance in Europe around 370 AD to after the disintegration of their empire around 469. The Huns likely entered Western Asia shortly before 370, from Central Asia : they first conquered the Goths and the Alans , pushing a number of tribes to seek refuge within the Roman Empire . In the following years,

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3072-702: The Huns and their Alan auxiliaries started plundering the wealthy settlements of the Greuthungi , or eastern Goths , to the west of the Don. Maenchen-Helfen suggests that it was as a result of their new alliance with these Alans that the Huns were able to threaten the Goths. The Greuthungic king, Ermanaric , resisted for a while, but finally "he found release from his fears by taking his own life", according to Ammianus Marcellinus. Marcellinus's report refers either to Ermanaric's suicide or to his ritual sacrifice . His great-nephew, Vithimiris , succeeded him. According to Ammianus, Vithimiris hired Huns to fight against

3168-580: The Huns as late as 468. Kim argues that even the Amali-led Goths remained loyal to the Huns until 459, when Valamir's nephew Theoderic was sent as a hostage to Constantinople, or even 461, when Valimir made an alliance with the Romans. Heather argues that the Amali united various groups of Goths sometime after Attila's death, though Jordanes claims that he did it while Attila was still alive. As he has for Ardaric and Ediko, Kim argues that Valimir, who

3264-585: The Huns conquered most of the Germanic and Scythian tribes outside of the borders of the Roman Empire. They also launched invasions of both the Asian provinces of Rome and the Sasanian Empire in 375. Under Uldin , the first Hunnic ruler named in contemporary sources, the Huns launched a first unsuccessful large-scale raid into the Eastern Roman Empire in Europe in 408. From the 420s, the Huns were led by

3360-613: The Huns in 445. He would go on to rule for the next eight years, launching a devastating raid on the Eastern Roman Empire in 447, followed by an invasion of Gaul in 451. Attila is traditionally held to have been defeated in Gaul at the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields , however some scholars hold the battle to have been a draw or Hunnic victory. The following year, the Huns invaded Italy and encountered no serious resistance before turning back. Hunnic dominion over Barbarian Europe

3456-504: The Huns launched a new raid into Thrace. The Huns again raided in 422, apparently under the command of a leader named Ruga . They reached as far as the walls of Constantinople. They appear to have forced the Eastern Empire to pay an annual tribute. In 424, they are noted as fighting for the Romans in North Africa, indicating friendly relations with the Western Roman Empire. In 425, magister militum Aetius marched into Italy with

3552-529: The Huns were "mentioned only cursorily" by previous writers. A tribe called the Ουρουγούνδοι Ourougoúndoi (or Urugundi ) who, according to Zosimus , invaded the Roman Empire from north of the Lower Danube in 250 AD , may have been synonymous with the Βουρουγουνδοι Bourougoundoi , whom Agathias (6th century) listed among the Hunnish tribes. Other scholars have regarded both names as referring to

3648-507: The Huns were again involved in raids in the Balkans, together with various other tribes. Some of the Huns seem to have settled in Thrace, and these Huns were then used as auxiliaries by Theodosius in 394; Maenchen-Helfen argues that the Romans may have hoped to use the Huns against the Goths. Kim believes that these mercenaries were not really Huns, but rather non-Hunnic groups capitalizing on

3744-419: The Huns' empire in this year. Maenchen-Helfen, however, argues that Ruga simply became sole ruler. In 432, Ruga aided Aetius, who had fallen into disfavor, in reobtaining his old office of magister militum : Ruga either sent or threatened to send an army into Italy. In 433, Aetius surrendered Pannonia Prima to Ruga, perhaps as a reward for aid that Ruga's Huns had given him in securing his position. Either

3840-686: The Huns' fearsome reputation as warriors. These Huns were eventually wiped up by the Romans in 401 after they began plundering the territory. In 395 the Huns began their first large-scale attacks on the Romans. In the summer of that year, the Huns crossed over the Caucasus Mountains , while in the winter of 395, another Hunnic invasion force crossed the frozen Danube, pillaged Thrace, and threatened Dalmatia . Sinor argues that these two events were likely not coordinated, but Kim believes they were. The forces in Asia invaded Armenia , Persia , and

3936-636: The Huns: they retained their own king, named Hunimund, whose name means "protégé of the Huns". Those who decided to resist marched to the Dniester River which was the border between the lands of the Greuthungi and the Thervingi , or western Goths. They were under the command of Alatheus and Saphrax , because Vithimiris's son, Viderichus, was a child. Athanaric , the leader of the Thervingi, met

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4032-645: The Posavina region are defined, to the south, by northern zones of the Dinaric mountain system , while Posavina′s northern borders are defined by the Pannonian island mountains . In terms of political geography , the Posavina region is divided into Croatian Posavina, Bosnian Posavina, and Serbian Posavina. During the Roman era, the region belonged to the province of Pannonia , marking its most southern zone. During

4128-508: The Roman magister militum responded by asking for Uldin's aid: Uldin's Huns then destroyed Radagaisus's army near Faesulae in modern Tuscany in 406. Kim suggests Uldin acted in order to demonstrate his ability to destroy any groups of barbarians who might flee Hunnic rule. An army of 1000 of Uldin's Huns were also employed by the Eastern Roman Empire to fight against the Goths under Alaric . After Stilicho's death in 408, however, Uldin switched sides and began aiding Alaric under an army under

4224-426: The Roman Empire. The still resisting Greuthingi under the leadership of Alatheus and Saphrax also marched to the river. Most Roman troops had been transferred from the Balkan Peninsula to fight against the Sassanid Empire in Armenia . Emperor Valens permitted the Thervingi to cross the Lower Danube and to settle in the Roman Empire in the autumn of 376. The Thervingi were followed by the Greuthingi, and also by

4320-465: The Roman general Litorius in an unsuccessful siege of the Visigothic capital of Toulouse . Priscus also mentions that the Huns extended their rule in "Scythia" and fought against an otherwise unknown people called the Sorosgi. In 440, the Huns attacked the Romans during one of the annual trading fairs stipulated by the Treaty of Margus: the Huns justified this action by alleging that the bishop of Margus had crossed into Hunnic territory and plundered

4416-517: The Roman provinces in Asia. One group crossed the Euphrates and was defeated by a Roman army, while two armies, recorded in later sources as under the leadership of Basich and Kursich , rode down the Euphrates and threatened the Persian capital of Ctesiphon . One of these armies was defeated by the Persians , while the other successfully retreated by Derbend Pass . A final group of Huns ravaged Asia Minor . The Huns devastated parts of Syria and Cappadocia , threatening Antioch . The devastation

4512-403: The Roman statesman and writer Olympiodorus of Thebes was sent on an embassy to "the first of the kings" of the Huns, Charaton . Olympiodorus wrote an account of this event, which exists now only fragmentarily. Olympiodorus had been dispatched to appease Charaton after the death of a certain Donatus , who "was unlawfully put to death". Historians such as E. A. Thompson have assumed that Donatus

4608-429: The Roman-Frankish general Flavius Bauto employed Hunnic mercenaries to defeat the Juthungi tribe attacking from Rhaetia . However, the Huns, rather than return to their own country, began to ride to Gaul : Bauto was forced to bribe them to turn back. They then attacked the Alamanni . Pacatus Drepanius reports that the Huns then fought with Theodosius against the usurper Magnus Maximus in 388. In 392, however,

4704-485: The Romans and agreed to withdraw from Roman lands; Heather believes that this was in order for him to plan an invasion of the Western Roman Empire. According to Priscus, Attila contemplated an invasion of Persia at this time as well. The treaty with Constantinople was abrogated shortly afterward by the new emperor Marcian , however, Attila was already occupied with his plans for the Western Empire and did not respond. In spring of 451, Attila invaded Gaul . Relations with

4800-579: The Romans handing over some territory to the Huns on the Sava River and may also have been when Attila was made magister militum to draw a salary. Bleda died some time between 442 and 447, with the most likely years being 444 or 445. He appears to have been murdered by Attila. Following Bleda's death, a tribe known as the Akatziri either rebelled against Attila or had never been under Attila's rule. Kim suggests that they rebelled specifically because of Bleda's death, as they were more likely to have been under Bleda's control than Attila's. The rebellion

4896-520: The Romans. It appears that most of his army was actually composed by Sciri and Germanic tribes, whom the Romans subsequently sold into slavery. Uldin himself escaped back across the Danube, after which he is not mentioned again. The Romans responded to Uldin's invasions by attempting to strengthen the fortifications at the border, increasing the defenses at Constantinople, and taking other measures to strengthen their defences. Hunnic mercenaries had also formed Stilicho's bodyguard: Kim suggests they were

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4992-443: The Sava river in Slovenian geographical nomenclature). The gography of the Posavina region is defined by geological features of the central (inner) zones of the Sava river basin , near or adjacent to the Sava river itself. The region extends along the Sava river, which flows from west to east, connecting valleys and plains in transitional regions between the Dinaric Mountains and the Pannonian Plain . The geographical borders of

5088-530: The Sciri led an alliance of various tribes, including the Suebi , Rogii, Gepids, and Sarmatians against the Goths at the Battle of Bolia . The Gothic victory confirmed their independence and the end of Hunnic rule in the West. Therefore, despite the collapse of the Western Hunnic Empire, Kim argues that the most important Barbarian leaders in Europe after Attila were all themselves Huns or were closely associated with Attila's empire. However, Warwick Ball argues that Kim relies on circular arguments and overstates

5184-411: The Visigoths under their king Theodoric I , Burgundians, the Alans, and some Franks, forced the Huns to break the siege of Orléans. Somewhere near Troyes , the two armies met and fought in the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields . In the standard scholarly view of the battle, despite the death of Theodoric, Attila's army was defeated and forced to retreat from Gaul. Kim argues that the battle was actually

5280-446: The Western Roman Empire appear to have deteriorated already by 449. One of the leaders of the Bagaudae, Eudoxius, had also fled to the Huns in 448. Aetius and Attila had also backed different candidates to be king of the Ripuarian Franks in 450. Attila claimed to the East Roman ambassadors in 450 that he intended to attack the Visigoths at Toulouse as an ally of the Western Emperor Valentinian III . According to one source, Honoria ,

5376-413: The Xiongnu and the Xianbei . The 2nd century AD geographer Ptolemy mentioned a people called Χοῦνοι Khounoi , when listing the peoples of the west Eurasian steppe. (In the Koine Greek used by Ptolemy, Χ generally denoted a voiceless velar fricative sound; hence contemporary Western Roman authors Latinised the name as Chuni or Chunni .) The Khounoi lived "between the Bastarnae and

5472-399: The amount of influence the Huns had on the Germanic peoples. It is unclear what happened to Attila's youngest son Ernak. Heather states that Ernak and a group of Huns were settled, with Roman permission, in northern Dobruja . Maenchen-Helfen notes that Ernak seems to have left this territory at some time before Dengizich's invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire. The rulers of the Bulgars ,

5568-406: The brothers Octar and Ruga , who both cooperated with and threatened the Romans. Upon Ruga's death in 435, his nephews Bleda and Attila became the new rulers of the Huns, and launched a successful raid into the Eastern Roman Empire before making peace and securing an annual tribute and trading raids under the Treaty of Margus . Attila appears to have killed his brother, and became sole ruler of

5664-430: The bulk of the Huns had remained on the Pontic steppes rather than moving into Europe at this time. It seems clear that the Huns did not intend to conquer or settle the territories they attacked, but rather to plunder the provinces, taking, among other things, cattle. Priscus, writing much later, reports hearing from the Huns at Attila's camp that the raid was launched due to a famine on the steppes. This may also have been

5760-403: The city to the Huns, which was likewise razed. The Huns also captured the fortress of Constantia on the Danube, as well as capturing and razing the cities of Singidunum and Sirmium . After this the Huns agreed to a truce. Maenchen-Helfen supposes that their army may have been hit by a disease, or that a rival tribe may have attacked Hunnic territory, necessitating a withdrawal. Thompson dates

5856-474: The command of Arnegisclus at the Battle of the Utus . The Huns then sacked and razed Marcianople . The Huns then set out for Constantinople itself, whose walls had been partially destroyed by an earthquake earlier in the year. While the Constantinoplitans were able to rebuild the walls before Attila's army approached, the Romans suffered another major defeat on the Gallipoli peninsula. The Huns proceeded to raid as far south as Thermopylae and captured most of

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5952-400: The command of Alaric's brother-in-law Athaulf . Also in 408, the Huns, under Uldin's command, crossed the Danube and captured the important fortress Castra Martis in Moesia . The Roman commander in Thrace attempted to make peace with Uldin, but Uldin refused his offers and demanded an extremely high tribute. However, many of Uldin's commanders subsequently defected to the Romans, bribed by

6048-466: The direction of Aetius and possibly with the involvement of Attila, destroyed the Burgundian kingdom on the Rhine under king Gundahar , an event memorialized in medieval Germanic legend. It is possible that the Huns' destruction of the Burgundians was motivated by revenge for the death of Octar in 430. Also in 437, the Huns helped Aetius capture Tibatto, the leader of the Bagaudae , a group of rebellious peasants and slaves. In 438, an army of Huns aided

6144-423: The drying up of pastureland further east. However, Peter Heather notes that in the absence of reliable data the climate change hypothesis is unprovable. As a second possibility, Heather suggests some other nomadic group may have pushed them westward. Peter Golden suggests that the Huns may have been pushed west by the Jou-jan . A third possibility may have been a desire to increase their wealth by coming closer to

6240-428: The eastern half, led by Ellac as leader of the Akatziri Huns. He further argues that Ardaric, in common with the other leaders of the Gepids, was actually a Hun and not of Germanic origin; he notes that bones from the Gepid period frequently show Asiatic features among the ruling elite. He also notes that Gepid rule in the Carpathian Basin appears to have differed little from that of the Huns. Ardaric's grandson Mundo

6336-511: The eastern portion of the empire, while Attila ruled the west. Kim believes that Bleda was the supreme king of the two. In 435, Bleda and Attila forced the Eastern Roman Empire to sign the Treaty of Margus , giving the Huns trade rights and increasing the annual tribute from the Romans. The Romans also agreed to hand over Hunnic refugees and fugitive tribes. Ruga appears to have made a commitment to aid Aetius in Gaul before his death, and Attila and Bleda kept this commitment. In 437, Huns, under

6432-463: The end of Hun rule, and Kim suggests that this indicates that the Huns were securely in control of the tribes beyond Rome at this time. Otto Maenchen-Helfen and E. A. Thompson argue that the Huns appear to have already been in possession of large parts of Pannonia (the Hungarian plain ) as early as 384. Denis Sinor suggests that they may have been settled there as foederati of the Romans rather than as invaders, dating their presence to 380. In 384,

6528-647: The first Hun identified by name in contemporary sources, is identified as the leader of the Huns in Muntenia (modern Romania east of the Olt River ) in 400. It is unclear how much territory or how many tribes of Huns Uldin actually controlled, although he clearly controlled parts of Hungary as well as Muntenia. The Romans referred to him as a regulus (sub-king): he himself boasted of immense power. In 400, Gainas , rebellious former Roman magister militum fled into Uldin's territory with an army of Goths, and Uldin defeated and killed him, likely near Novae : he sent Gainas's head to Constantinople. Kim suggests that Uldin

6624-469: The fourth century. Some scholars believe that the Huns originated in the ancient people known as the Xiongnu and are thus related to other steppe peoples called Huns, however, there is no consensus on the issue. There is a gap of about two hundred years between the conquest of the Xiongnu by the Xianbei and their disappearance from Chinese historical records and the appearance of the Huns in Greco-Roman sources. Archaeology has discovered few links between

6720-448: The historian Eunapius claims that he gave them land and cattle in order to form "an unconquerable bulwark against the inroads of the Huns." After this, the Huns are recorded to have launched a raid into Scythia Minor in 384 or 385. Soon afterwards, in 386, a group of Greuthungi under Odotheus fled the Huns into Thrace, followed by several attempts by the Sarmatians . This is the last serious migration into Roman territory until after

6816-463: The historian Jordanes mentioned that the Huns also conquered "the Alpidzuri, the Alcildzuri, Itimari, Tuncarsi, and Boisci" in a battle by the Maeotian Swamp . These were potentially Turkic-speaking nomadic tribes who are later mentioned living under the Huns along the Danube. Jordanes claimed that the Huns at this time were led by a king Balamber . E. A. Thompson doubts that such a figure ever existed, but argues that "they were operating [...] with

6912-644: The land East of the Carpathians while Octar ruled the territory to the north and west of the Carpathians. Kim argues that Octar was a "deputy" king in his territory while Ruga was the supreme king. Octar died around 430 while fighting the Burgundians , who at the time lived on the right bank of the Rhine . Denis Sinor argues that his nephew Attila likely succeeded him as ruler of the eastern portion of

7008-622: The later historian Orosius ( c.  375/385 – c.  420 CE ) identified the contemporary Alans, Goths, and Huns with the Scythians whom Tacitus and Justin had already mentioned. The Huns' sudden appearance in the written sources suggests that the Huns crossed the Volga River from the east not much earlier. The reasons for the Huns' sudden attack on the neighboring peoples are unknown. One possible reason may have been climate change, as some Greco-Roman sources speculate on

7104-401: The major towns in the Balkans except for Hadrianople and Heracleia . Theodosius was forced to sue for peace: in addition to the tribute the Romans had failed to pay before, the amount of yearly tribute was raised, and the Romans were forced to evacuate a large swath of territory south of the Danube to the Huns, thus leaving the border defenseless. In 450, Attila negotiated a new treaty with

7200-635: The material culture of the Huns and Eastern Central Asia. As of 2023, there is little genetic data from the Carpathian basin from the Hunnic period (5th century), and the population living there during the Hunnic period shows a variety of genetic signatures. Maróti et al. 2022 showed that the genomes of 9 Hun-era individuals from the basin varied from European to Northeast Asian connections, with those individuals showing associations with Northeast Asia being most similar to groups found in Mongolia such as

7296-470: The previous year, in 432, or 434, Ruga sent an emissary to Constantinople announcing that he intended to attack some tribes whom he considered under his authority but who had fled into Roman territory; however, he died after the beginning of this campaign and the Huns left Roman territory. After Ruga's death, his nephews Attila and Bleda became the rulers of the Huns: Bleda appears to have ruled in

7392-529: The reason for the raids into Thrace. Maenchen-Helfen suggests that Basich and Kursich, the Hun leaders responsible for the invasion of Persia, may have come to Rome in 404 or 407 as mercenaries: Priscus records that they came to Rome to make an alliance. Hunnic attacks against Armenia would continue after this raid, with Armenian sources noting a Hunnic tribe known as the Xailandur as the perpetrators. Uldin ,

7488-542: The refugees along the Dniester at the head of his troops. However, a Hun army bypassed the Goths and attacked them from the rear, forcing Athanaric to retreat towards the Carpathian Mountains . Athanaric wanted to fortify the borders, but Hun raids into the land west of the Dniester continued. Most Thervingi realized that they could not resist the Huns. They went to the Lower Danube, requesting asylum in

7584-543: The reign of emperor Augustus , it was the epicenter of the Pannonian Uprising . During the 5th century, the region was invaded by several migrating peoples, including Huns and Goths . In post-Roman era, during the 6th century, the region was contested between Ostrogoths , Gepids , Langobards , Avars , and the Byzantine Empire . By the end the 6th and during the 7th century, the entire region

7680-676: The remaining Akatziri. Maenchen-Helfen argues that the Huns likely fought a war against the Longobards , living in modern Moravia , in 446, in which the Longobards successfully resisted Hunnic domination. Some time after Bleda's death, while the Huns were busy with internal affairs, Theodosius had ceased paying the stipulated tribute to the Huns. In 447, Attila sent an embassy to complain, threatening war and noting that his people were dissatisfied and that some had even begun raiding Roman territory. The Romans, however, refused to resume

7776-511: The river Odra and its tributary Lomnica . The name Turopolje stems from the Croatian and Old Slavic word Tur ' aurochs ' ( Bos primigenius ), a type of wild cattle present in the area during the Middle Ages . Velika Gorica is the largest settlement and is first mentioned as Gorica in 1228. Other settlements include Mraclin (since prehistoric times), Staro Čiče (Bronze Age), Šćitarjevo (Roman empire), Lukavec (defense castle dating to

7872-407: The sister of Valentinian III, sent Attila a ring and asked for his aid in escaping imprisonment at the hands of her brother. Attila then demanded half of Western Roman territory as his dowry and invaded. Kim dismisses this story as of doubtful authenticity and a "ridiculous stor[y]". Heather is similarly skeptical that Attila would invade for this reason, noting that Attila invaded Gaul while Honoria

7968-455: The southeast. It passes through several countries of former Yugoslavia , namely Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia . In Slovene , the term Posavina is not used to describe the parts of Slovenia that lie by the Sava river. Instead, the terms Posavje , Zasavje and Zgornjesavska dolina are used (however, the parts of Slovenia between Litija and Bled , as well as Bohinj , are generally not defined by their proximity to

8064-417: The tribute payments or hand over any refugees, and Attila began a full-scale attack by capturing the forts along the Danube. His forces included not only Huns, but also his subject peoples the Gepids , led by their king Ardaric , and the Goths under their king Valamer , as well as others. After they had cleared the Danube of Roman defences, the Huns then marched westward and defeated a large Roman army under

8160-456: The wealthy Roman Empire. The Romans became aware of the Huns when the latter's invasion of the Pontic steppes forced thousands of Goths to move to the Lower Danube to seek refuge in the Roman Empire in 376, according to the contemporaneous Ammianus Marcellinus. There are also some indications that the Huns were already raiding Transcaucasia in the 360s and 370s. These raids eventually forced

8256-484: The western part of their empire in 464. In 466, Dengizich demanded that Constantinople resume paying tribute to the Huns and reestablish the Huns' trading rights with the Romans. The Romans refused, however. Dengizich then decided to invade the Roman empire, with Ernak declining to join him to focus on other wars. Kim suggests that Ernak was distracted by the invasion of the Saragurs and other Oghurs , who had defeated

8352-509: Was a king of the Huns. Denis Sinor, however, argues that given his obviously Roman name Donatus was likely a Roman refugee living among the Huns. Where Olympiodorus met Charaton is also unclear: due to Olympiodorus's traveling by sea, they may have met somewhere on the Pontic steppe. Maenchen-Helfen and Sinor, however, believe it more likely that Charaton was located in Pannonia. Also in 412,

8448-416: Was actively encouraged by the Romans, who sent gifts to the Akatziri; however, the Romans offended the supreme chief, Buridach, by giving him gifts second rather than first. He subsequently appealed to Attila for help against the other rebellious leaders. Attila's forces then defeated the tribe after several battles: Buridach was allowed to rule his own tribe, but Attila placed his own son Ellac in command of

8544-530: Was due to his anger at his defeat in Gaul the previous year. The Huns crossed the Julian Alps and then besieged the heavily defended city of Aquileia , eventually capturing and razing it after a long siege. They then entered the Po Valley , sacking Padua , Mantua , Vicentia , Verona , Brescia , and Bergamo , before besieging and capturing Milan . The Huns made no attempt to capture Ravenna , and were either stopped or did not try to take Rome. Aetius

8640-530: Was in Italy. Jordanes claims that Geiseric , king of the Vandals in North Africa, encouraged Attila to attack. Thompson suggests that Attila intended to remove Aetius and actually take up his honorary office as magister militum . Kim believes that it is unlikely that Attila actually intended to conquer Gaul, but rather to secure his control over Germanic tribes living on the Rhine. The Hunnic army set out from

8736-494: Was interested in cooperating with the Romans while he expanded his control over Germanic tribes in the West. In 406, Hunnic pressure seems to have caused groups of Vandals , Suebi , and Alans to cross the Rhine into Gaul . Uldin's Huns raided Thrace in 404–405, likely in winter. Also in 405, a group of Goths under Radagaisus invaded Italy, with Kim arguing that these Goths originated from Uldin's territory and that they were likely fleeing from some action of his. Stilicho ,

8832-493: Was merged with Littoral Banovina to form new Banovina of Croatia . Today, one of the counties in Croatia is named Brod-Posavina County and one of the cantons in Bosnia and Herzegovina is named Posavina Canton . The Bosnian Posavina region was gravely hit by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–95) to the point that parts of it had become uninhabited , as almost all the houses were plundered, burnt or destroyed. Only

8928-463: Was sent to the Romans. Anagastes , the son of Arnegisclus who was slain by Attila, brought Dengzich's head to Constantinople and paraded it through the streets before mounting it on a stake in the Hippodrome . This was the end of Hunnic rule in the West. Kim argues that the war after the death of Attila was actually a rebellion of the western half of the Hunnic empire, led by Ardaric, against

9024-625: Was settled by South Slavs . In 819-823, western parts of the region were center of the Ljudevit's Rebellion against the Frankish Empire . During the 11th and 12th century, almost all parts of Posavina were gradually conquered by the Kingdom of Hungary . In the first half of the 18th century, Sava - Danube (Posavina- Podunavlje ) section of the Habsburg Military Frontier existed in the area. Posavina segment of

9120-402: Was unable to offer a meaningful resistance and his authority was greatly damaged. The Huns received a peace embassy led by Pope Leo I and in the end turned back. However, Heather argues that it was a combination of disease and an attack by Eastern Roman troops on the Hunnic homeland in Pannonia that led to the Huns' withdrawal. Kim argues that the attacks by the Eastern Romans are a fiction, as

9216-409: Was worse because most Roman forces had been moved to the West due to Roman power struggles there. In 398 Eutropius finally succeeded in gathering an army and restoring order in the province. It seems likely, however, that the Huns left of their own accord without Eutropius having defeated them in battle. Sinor argues that the much larger scale of the attacks on Asia Minor and Persia indicates that

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