Excellent Map of the Hun Dominions

In the 40's the huns fought in persia and in Europe. So the minimum was from Pannonia to the Kaukasus. They got the gothic lands in the russian steppe, probably up to the forest region.
Hunnic ...(hmm, how you call "Opferkessel" in English?) were found even in north Poland.

And the huns got the largest "European Union"  :--)))north from the roman empire until the post middle-ages.


Edited by Tar Szer�nd - 21-Sep-2008 at 18:23

Attila didn't create a state, so whether it can be called an empire or not depends on your definition. He had a core area where he held actual power and with his military successes he forced many of the surrounding regions into a tributary relationship with him. This is the nature of Attila's "empire", which means you need quite a broad definition of empire if you mean to include political bodies as different as the Roman Empire and Attila's comparatively loose area of influence.

The Turkic "peoples" are probably similar to the European "peoples" in that there's many thin layers of cultures and languages laid on top of an aboriginal population.   Something like 95% of European genes date back to the Paleolithic.  The Turks swept into areas inhabited by Indo-European speaking people and imposed their culture and language on them.  After a while, you can't tell the conquered from the conquerors.

Here is a map of the Hunnic Empire in 450 AD, shortly before Attila's death.  I made the map based on the sources listed <here>.

This map, it's parent map (East Hemisphere in 450 AD), and others are available at www.WorldHistoryMaps.info .