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What is the historical evidence for asserting Huns were one and the same as Xiongnu?
As I touched in the last paragraph of this answer, we don't really know who the Huns were. Its one of the great mysteries of history, up there with the identity of the Sea Peoples.
It appears the ...
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Were the Huns and Mongols at one point rivals?
When most people think of "Huns" and "Mongols", they are thinking of Atilla's empire of the mid 400's and Genghis Khan's Mongolian Empire of the 1200's. Since there's a good 800 years between them, ...
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What is the historical evidence for asserting Huns were one and the same as Xiongnu?
Hunnic cauldrons were the same style as the Xiongnu of the 1st century AD. People think that the Huns brought them from Mongolia, to Central Asia and Europe, where they are found. Westward migrations, ...
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Who were the Huns and/or Xiongnu?
The battle of Nedao (still unidentified Pannonian river) at 455 AD put an end to the Hunnic empire. Some time later, as we learn from the Gothic historian Jordanes, groups of Huns returned to their "...
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Who were the Huns and/or Xiongnu?
Most likely the Huns were Xiongnu-Mongoloid ruler combined with Yuezhi and Usun subjects.
The upper class and ruler of Huns were of Turkic origin,
While the lower class were of Iranic origin.
The ...
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Who were the Huns and/or Xiongnu?
They were all of them.The Huns were not a particular tribe but a compendium or confederation of different tribes.
Black Huns were Turkics from Russia.
White Huns were Turkics from North West China and ...
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