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Attila the Hun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3553 words) |
 | At the time of their accession, the Huns were bargaining with Theodosius II's envoys over the return of several renegade tribes who had taken refuge within the Byzantine Empire. |
| Theodosius had stripped the river's defenses in response to the Vandal Geiseric's capture of Carthage in 440 and the Sassanid Yazdegerd II's invasion of Armenia in 441. |
| Based on detailed philological analysis, Babcock concludes that the account of natural death, given by Priscus, was an ecclesiastical "cover story" and that Emperor Marcian (who ruled the Eastern Roman Empire from 450-457) was the political force behind Attila's death. |
| Visigoth (2089 words) |
| Over the next three years, they were driven back over the Danube River in a series of campaigns by the emperors Claudius II Gothicus and Aurelian. |
| The ones that crossed were meant to have their weapons confiscated, but the Romans in charge accepted bribes to allow the Goths to retain their weapons. |
| However, a famine broke out in the lands settled by the Visigoths a year later, and Rome was able to supply them with neither the land they were promised--they herded the Goths into a temporary holding area; it is often compared to a World War II concentration camp--nor the food. |
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