C. 450 Roman and Hun Empires

Map of Roman Empire and Hunnic invasions circa 450 CE. Note: the term empire is used by these and other historians to refer to lands invaded and/or partially controlled during the period of the Huns. In that regard it is important to avoid applying a narrow Western bias by inherently assuming that only a Roman-type of settled feudal domain should be considered relevant. The Roman model was certainly not the only one - and was quite far from the type of territorial domains reflected in other cultural traditions, particularly mobile ones such as the Huns. The Hunnic version was short-lived but impactful. Appreciating the outer boundaries of the Hunnic invasions is also important from an historical perspective for the "knock-on" effects they had on existing tribes and peoples fleeing those incursions - effects that influenced subsequent events across central and western Europe. The broad territories involved are summarized in the following text related to the Huns: By 370 AD, the Huns had arrived on the Volga, causing the westwards movement of Goths and Alans. By 430, they had established a vast, but short-lived, empire on the Danubian frontier of the Roman empire in Europe. Either un

Date

c. 1911

Place

Europe in the 5th century

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

atlas page

Original size

1,700 × 1,097 pixels

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