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History of Huns

In the III century BC public formation of Huns appeared. They were who lived in the East of the Great Steppe. Huns subjugated the tribes of the Sage Altai and Upper Yenisei, they also held a series of military campaigns y neighboring China. The power of the Huns, after the struggle against the neighboring tribal unions and Chinese kingdoms, uses for used to create effective political-administrative system to manage its vast area. Traditions developed by Huns were specific for later associations of nomads.

In the IX-th century AD, the black sea steppes and Eastern Europe were overflowed with the wave of nomads known under the name of Huns. According to widely spread opinion, European Huns were Asian descendants of the Huns, who appeared as a result of collapse of the Hunnish state formation in the East century AD and migrated far to the West. The Huns established a powerful Alliance of tribes known as the Hun Empire, which occupied the territory between the Danube and the Volga. This Alliance reached its power during the reign of Attila (434-453). After the death of Attila, the Huns gradually assimilated among more powerful tribes.