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Things You Didn’t Know About Atilla the Hun

Weird History | September 19, 2025



Who was Attila the Hun? Attila the Hun is known as the most prolific killer of the Early Middle Ages. But the facts about Attila’s life are much more complicated than that. Born into the royalty of a small but ambitious steppe tribe, Attila and his brother Bleda were groomed for a life of combat. They ascended to control the Hunnic Empire, and were soon at war with Rome.

Information on Attila the Hun is hard to come by and often biased. We know he was an innovative general feared by his enemies, but did you know that his conquests were instrumental in founding the city of Venice? Or that one of his greatest invasions started with a possibly fraudulent marriage proposal?

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  8. @mitkodimitrov8396

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    but who are bulgars,rulled by Dulo clan,wich give alfabet,old church slavonic and literacy,to many nations?Can you chek the map of Yamnaya,Scytuia and Sarmatia,Onoguria and Old gtreat Bulgaria,or Magna Bulgaria,there is something weird

  10. @DestinationBarbarism

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    Third way through the video and I have not heard a single thing about the Huns I did not already know. AND the video is SLOW, with sparse information. AND the video makes mistakes such as calling 376 invasion Hunnic when that was a Gothic invasion. Maybe Goths set into motion by the Huns, but still not a Hunnic invasion.

  11. @yaqubleis6311

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    Let’s talk about Iranic peoples and Hunnic peoples war or Iranian Huns and Hunnic peoples of Europe war with Iranic peoples

    Shapur II the Great fought Kidarites and in the end they were not only defeated by him but made to serve in the Sassanid army in their battles with Rome

    Bahram IV's army also defeated and chased off two Hunnic armies from Mesopotamia and retook all of the Hunnic army's loots and prisoners the Sasanians took nearly all of the booty, and freed 18,000 captives.The other group of Huns successfully retreated through the Derbent Pass years later, the Sasanian Emperor Yazdegerd I returned the Roman prisoners taken by the Huns

    Basiq and Kursich led two detachments down the Euphrates, threatening the capital Ctesiphon. Upon hearing that the Sasanian army was marching against them, the Huns retreated.However, one group was overtaken, and some were killed.The Sasanians took nearly all of the booty, and freed 18,000 captives.[2] The other group of Huns successfully retreated through the Derbent Pass

    The first Hunnic peoples of Europe invasion of the Sasanian Empire was from 399-400. This invasion was initially successful, coming close to the capital of the empire at Ctesiphon; however, they were defeated badly during the Persian counterattack which also resulted in the death of Kursich and Basich

    During the reign of Bahram V (who is called Bahram Gur because of his obsession with hunting onagers), while Bahram was occupied with the war with the Romans, his eastern neighbours, Kidarites, crossed the Oxus river and invaded the Sasanian realm, conquering the rich city of Marw and even reaching as far as westwards as Ray

    However, Bahram passed through the mountain chain on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, eventually reaching Merv where he heavily defeated and routed the Kidarite army, killing their king in the process and capturing his wife the queen of Kidarites

    A general of Bahram pursued the Kidarites into Transoxiana and inflicted another heavy defeat on them

    The war was concluded in 427, with Bahram cementing his name as a great champion of Iran

    The name of Bahram was long remembered amongst the people of the surrounding area and the Sogdian city of Bukhara would later mint coins with his image

    In 450, Yazdegerd II launched an expedition into deep Kidarite territory in Central Asia, raiding and capturing forts and cities, which resulted in the accumulation of many captives and riches and managed to secure the eastern portion of his empire against the Kidarite incursions also Yazdegerd II destroyed Hunnic peoples in time of Attila made them run back to Europe LOL

    the Hephthalites were stopped and heavily defeated by an Iranian noble called Sukhra of the house of Karen

    He took back the treasury, Peroz daughter, high priest and everything that was looted by Hephthalites

    In 489, Vahan I Mamikonian along with Vachagan III of Parthian origin who was King of caucasian Albania, who served the Sassanids, repelled an Hephthalite invasion of Transcaucasia and defeated them

    Kavad I was able to defeat the Hephthalites as well and take back the great Khorasan from them His son, Khosrow Anushiravan finally defeated and completely destroyed the Hephthalite Empire for good in year 560

  12. @gaborjuhasz5610

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    Atilla not a "german "name…..
    Two reason:first there is no gernany untill Bismarc….
    Secondly the Mighty Hun King Ruga didn't find a decent Hun nanes fir his son?
    😂😂😂
    Atilla brother was Buda ,not bleda…..😂

  20. @gyulaerdei3180

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    Szégyen , hogy épp a Hunok nem irnak Atiláról semmit …
    Aki egy páratlan uralkodó volt , és maguktól , kényszer nélkül váltak sokan országa tagjává.
    Jobban érezték magukat Atilánál mint a sajaat hazájukban !!! ….. *
    🙂

  24. @bolinfan1519

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    Attila was a Caucasian, or at least part Caucasian, since the Roman diplomat and historian Priscus, who knew him, described him as having a thin beard. The thumbnail illustration of an Asiatic Attila is an attempt to deceive viewers into believing that Mongols had beards. If a Mongol had part Caucasian blood, which was rare, he could have a thin beard, but not the full beard depicted here. Many Caucasians have thin beards, especially blond men. The jury is still out in my view. The only absolute is that Attila had Caucasian blood because of the beard. Whether he had fully Caucasian blood, majority Caucasian blood, or part Caucasian blood cannot be determined, but we should also take into account that Árpád said Attila was his forefather, and Árpád was a Caucasian in every rendering I've seen. As for the Turkic idea, the Hugarian words which aparently come from Turkish words prove nothing more than the fact that the Ottoman occupation of almost 200 years had an effect on the language. As for Attila being a Turk, then Árpád and the Magyars would be Turks, but I don't believe it. The Turks were a fringe on the outskirts of the huge Scythian empire when the Huns invaded Central Europe. The Scythians had allies which could have included Turks and Asians. The Hungarian falcon (Turul) is also known as the Saker falcon. Saker = Saka = Scythian. The Huns and the Magyars were Scythians. You DNA cats are confused for too many reasons to go into here. The Scythians were descended from the Tribe of Judah. Budapest has hundreds or thousands of lion statues representing the Lion of Judah. One fountain has lions in the Babylonian and Assyrian style. The Judahites became Scythians after the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities.

  25. @bolinfan1519

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    Attila was a Caucasian, or at least part Caucasian, since the Roman diplomat and historian Priscus, who knew him, described him as having thin beard. The thumbnail illustration of an Asiatic Attila is an attempt to deceive viewers into believing that Mongols had beards. If a Mongol had part Caucasian blood, which is rare, he could have a thin beard, but not the full beard depicted here. Many Caucasians have thin beards, especially blond men. The jury is still out in my view. The only absolute is that Attila had Caucasian blood because of the beard. Whether he had fully Caucasian blood, majority Caucasian blood, or part Caucasian blood cannot be determined, but we should also take into account that Árád said Attila was his forefather, and Árpád was a Caucasian in every rendering I've seen. As for the Turkic idea, the Hugarian words which aparently come from Turkish words prove nothing more than the fact that the Ottoman occupation of almost 30 years had an effect on the language. As for Attila being a Turk, then Árpád would be a Turk, but I don't believe it. The Turks were a fringe on the outskirts of the huge Scythian empire when the Huns invaded Central Europe. The Hungarian symbol pf the Turul is also known as the Saker falcon. Saker = Saka = Scythian. The Huns and the Magyars were Scythians. You DNA cats are confused for too many reasons to go into here. The Scythians were descended from the Tribe of Judah. Budspests has hundreds or thousands of lion statues representing the Lion of Judah. One fountain has lions on the Babylonian and Assyrian style. The Judahites became Scythians after the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities.

  26. @zhuxue

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    He was "bad" for a reason. Those who had a reason to fear him created this barbaric, evil image about him. The nickname "the scourge of god" has a negative meaning by those who had to fear him, while it should be taken as a positive way since that was his job: tobe the Scourge of God that is for those who needed a lesson to learn. A thorough search should be done on a person before making a video. Period.

  28. @Coyot0xx0

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    Everything that you read and hear about Attila the Hun, the Hungarians and Viktor Orbán has to be taken with a grain of salt because Hungarian history is a blend of forgery of many sources. They have many enemies, but still it doesn't consequently mean that they are that bad.

  29. @axe7064

    September 19, 2025 at 4:04 pm

    You quote Jordane's who worked under King Theodoric in Italy as describing Attila with "Tanned skin" however the full description describes him as "Swarthy" "He was short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with gray; and he had a flat nose and a swarthy complexion, showing the evidences of his origin." Swarthy means dark skin NOT tanned.

    You and other so called history – buffs and experts interpreting historical events and it's people with some warped white supremacist agenda is but the tip of tip of the iceberg which belies the confusion, inaccuracies, half truths and downright lies which has plagued history from it's Ancient past to it's modern reckoning. You don't love history. You love lies and trickery but thankfully the game is up. Dr Kehinde Andrews sums this up with the title of his new publication "The psychosis of whiteness" Disgrace and shame are two words that come to mind. Source http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/20A/Jordanes.html

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