Who was Attila and the Huns?

[Hevo]

Yes and they were an ethnic continuation of the same people who had always lived there, "Turanid" propaganda is spinning out of control and their version of the ancient world is looking more and more like Alice in Wonderland.

Yeah, they(Proto Slavs) have lived there for like centuries while the Turkic peoples were eating chinese food in Central Asia. Their propaganda is pathetic...

[riverman]

Yeah, they(Proto Slavs) have lived there for like centuries while the Turkic peoples were eating chinese food in Central Asia. Their propaganda is pathetic...

No reason to insult Chinese food IMO, I think Hungarians and Turks are generally quite different, this theory they've developed doesn't make sense, there are like 10 different ethnic combinations possible for "Turanism", it's stupid.

[riverman]

Yank, I am no poser, and I know very well what I am talking about. And there is nothing stupid in my post. Nobody cares what an American thanks about Hungary, go and obey your Israeli masters.

You're all mixed up.

[Anglojew]

How are Russians Finno-Ugric and not Slavs?

[Linet]

Oh my God , how much i "love" these threads that resurrect dead people while trying to change their nationality .

[evon]

Is it Attila day today or something, first i found this bad Norwegian research article linking Plain Q with Attila and the Huns, and now i saw this thread

I would like to contribute by saying that the Huns were one among many ethnic groups of which composed the "Hunnic" empire, and to this day i have not see a single real evidence to support his or Hunnic origins as being bound by any known ethnic groups, or linguistic group. Also, using written sources is very complicated and should be subject to historical interpretation, so if people without the proper training start quoting historical sources they can fall into a number of "fall traps", one being the war of information that was so crucial in a time without mass media, and a narrow world view scoped by religious ideals.

This is a good documentary ive seen recently on the Barbarian peoples:


Thought it is somewhat simplified (which is reasonable given its a TV documentary) and focuses on the aesthetics of these peoples, it does give a good insight into a reality that seem far from the warring mentality people on this board often hold about these peoples.

[riverman]

Other. I think he was what people would consider today an ethnic "mix" of Germanic, slav, and near Asian, if the depiction I've seen is anything accurate to what he looked like more so Germanic, he certainly wasn't very eastern.

[Pallantides]

Is it Attila day today or something, first i found this bad Norwegian research article linking Plain Q with Attila and the Huns

I assume you are the guest commentator

[evon]

I assume you are the guest commentator

I wanted to edit my spelling mistake, but ended up deleting my "name" and so ended up as "guest" with a spelling mistake instead

[Hayalet]

Türks always claim Attila, this is no less absurd.

The first one to claim Attila as a Turk was a 18th century French Turkologist, not Turks themselves.

There were already Slavic tribes in Ukraine/Belarus/Poland before atilla the hun's time....

Early Slavs are generally associated with marshlands in the north. Turkic nomads took over the steppe zone from Iranian groups, not Slavs.