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This is a list of kings of the Huns from the arrival of the Huns in Europe in the 360s/370s until the fall of the Hunnic Empire in 469 AD.. The following list starts with Balamber, the first known king of the Huns, who is thought to be one of the earliest, if not the first, Hun king since their arrival in Pannonia.
Oebarsius (Aybars) (fl. 440), Hunnic nobleman, brother of Mundzuk; Ortlieb, legendary prince of Burgundian and Hunnic descent, the son of Kriemhild and Etzel; Sifka, Hunnic princess appearing in the Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks, mother of Hlöd by Heidrek, king of the Geats; Ultzindur (fl. 460), Hun nobleman, blood relative of Attila
All other information on Hunnic is contained in personal names and tribal ethnonyms. [186] On the basis of these names, scholars have proposed that Hunnic may have been a Turkic language , [ 187 ] a language between Mongolic and Turkic, [ 188 ] an Eastern Iranian language , [ 189 ] or a Yeniseian language . [ 190 ]
Otto Maenchen-Helfen considered the Hunnic name Έδέκων (Edekon) to be of Germanic or Germanized origin, but did not mention any derivation. [ 1 ] Omeljan Pritsak derived it from Old Turkic verbal root *edär- (to pursue, to follow), and deverbal noun suffix κων ( kun < r-k < r-g < *gun ). [ 2 ]
The Kidarites, or Kidara Huns, [1] were a dynasty that ruled Bactria and adjoining parts of Central Asia and South Asia in the 4th and 5th centuries. The Kidarites belonged to a complex of peoples known collectively in India as the Huna, and in Europe as the Chionites (from the Iranian names Xwn/Xyon), and may even be considered as identical to the Chionites. [2]
The Hunnic language, or Hunnish, was the language spoken by Huns in the Hunnic Empire, a heterogeneous, multi-ethnic tribal confederation which invaded Eastern and Central Europe, and ruled most of Pannonian Central Europe, during the 4th and 5th centuries CE.
Hunnic may refer to: Huns, a former nomadic tribe of the Eurasian steppe; Hunnic language, spoken by the Huns; Hunnic grapes, a class of grapes grown in German ...
The name is recorded as Ουλδης (Ouldes) by Sozomen, Uldin by Orosius, and Huldin by Marcellinus Comes. [1] On the basis of the Latin variants, Omeljan Pritsak and Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen argue that the name ended on -n, not the Greek suffix -s. [1] [2] Hyun Jin Kim, however, argues that -in is a Greek suffix added to the name. [3]