Brothers Attila and Bleda ruled together, but each king had his own territory and people under him.

Attila and Bleda were as ambitious as king Rugila.

In 445, Bleda died, leaving Attila the sole ruler of the Hun Empire.

He called in Hun mercenaries under command of Attila and his brother Bleda, which plunder Augusta Vangionum, killing some 20, 000 Burgundians.

After negotiations, Attila and his brother Bleda who are present, accept a four-point peace plan.

Bleda or Buda ( c. 390 – 445 ) was a Hun ruler, the brother of Attila the Hun.

As nephews to Rugila, Attila and his elder brother Bleda succeeded him to the throne.

However there is an alternative theory that Bleda attempted to kill Attila on a hunting trip, but Attila being a skilled warrior defeated Bleda.

His death in 434 left his nephews Attila and Bleda ( the sons of his brother Mundzuk ) in control over all the united Hun tribes.

The following year, Attila and Bleda met with the imperial legation at Margus ( present-day Požarevac ) and, all seated on horseback in the Hunnic manner, negotiated a successful treaty: the Romans agreed not only to return the fugitive tribes ( who had been a welcome aid against the Vandals ), but also to double their previous tribute of 350 Roman pounds ( ca.

This left Attila and Bleda a clear path through Illyria into the Balkans, which they invaded in 441.

Attila and Bleda responded by renewing their campaign in 443.

According to Jordanes ( following Priscus ), sometime during the peace following the Huns ' withdrawal from Byzantium ( probably around 445 ), Bleda died ( killed by his brother, according to the classical sources ), and Attila took the throne for himself.

A few sources indicate that Bleda tried to kill Attila first, to which Attila retaliated.

* Bleda with Attila c. 434-c. 445

Atli is a legendary version of Attila the Hun and the name Budli comes from Bleda who was the historical Attila's elder brother.

In 435, the city of Margus, under the Eastern Roman Empire, was the site of a treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Hun leaders Attila and Bleda.

* The rise of the Hunnic Empire under Attila and Bleda ( 434-453 ), who raided the Balkans, Gaul, and Italy, threatening both Constantinople and Rome.

Mundzuk was also father of Attila the Hun and Bleda.

His heirs to the throne were his nephews, Bleda and Attila, who ruled in a dual kingship.

* Rome is threatened by Attila but not attacked due to a last-minute effort by Leo I.

Paul the Deacon, in the late 8th century, relates that an enormously huge man dressed in priestly robes and armed with a naked sword, visible only to Attila, threatened him and his army with death during his discourse with Leo, and this prompted Attila to submit to his request.

* Csaba, the son of Attila the Hun ( Hungary ) who is supposed to ride down the Milky Way when the Székelys are threatened.

Theodosius II ordered the praetorian prefect Constantine to supervise the repairs, made all the more urgent as the city was threatened by the presence of Attila the Hun in the Balkans.

In Hungarian mythology, Csaba, the mythical son of Attila the Hun and ancestor of the Hungarians is supposed to ride down the Milky Way when the Székelys ( ethnic Hungarians living in Transylvania ) are threatened.

Thanks to the large amount of greenery, especially around the midsection called Central Ferencváros and further to the south, especially in the low-rise Attila József housing estate, the area has healthy outdoor spaces unequalled in central Pest.

British historian Marko Attila Hoare accused Bildt of downplaying the number of victims killed in the Srebrenica massacre and ignoring Serbian war crimes.

The historian Jordanes states that Attila was enticed by the Vandals ' king Gaiseric to wage war on the Visigoths.

During the invasion of the Huns under Attila, the city was again besieged and sacked in 452 while, some forty years later, it was one of the first conquests of the Gothic general Theoderic the Great in his war against Odoacer.

The conflict climaxed in 451 at the Battle of Châlons, in which the Romans and Goths defeated Attila.

After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.

* 451: Huns under Attila facing the Romans and the Visigoths are defeated in the Battle of Chalons.

* Attila, age 12, is sent as child hostage to the court at Rome and in return, the Romans sent Flavius Aetius to the Huns.

These were Romans not under imperial control ; some of their reasons for rebellion may be indicated by the remarks of a Roman captive under Attila who was happy in his lot, giving a lively account of the vices of a declining empire, of which he had so long been the victim ; the cruel absurdity of the Roman princes, unable to protect their subjects against the public enemy, unwilling to trust them with arms for their own defence ; the intolerable weight of taxes, rendered still more oppressive by the intricate or arbitrary modes of collection ; the obscurity of numerous and contradictory laws ; the tedious and expensive forms of judicial proceedings ; the partial administration of justice ; and the universal corruption, which increased the influence of the rich, and aggravated the misfortunes of the poor.

* 451, Invasion of Gaul by the Huns with Frankish, Gothic and Burgundian mercenaries led by Attila the Hun, Sack of Trier, Attack on Metz, Siege of Orléans, Coalition of Romans, Franks and Visigoths led by General Aëtius stop the Huns in the Battle of Châlons, Visigothic King Theodoric I dies in battle.

Secondly, an East Roman force had crossed the Danube under the command of another officer also named Aetius — who had participated in the Council of Chalcedon the previous year — and proceeded to defeat the Huns who had been left behind by Attila to safeguard their home territories.

Like the Avars after them, once the Hun political unity failed there was no way to re-create it, especially because the Huns had become a multiethnic empire even before Attila.

Jordanes also recounted how Priscus had described Attila the Hun, the Emperor of the Huns from 434-453, as: " Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head ; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey ; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.

Romulus ' father Orestes was a Roman citizen, originally from Pannonia, who had served as a secretary and diplomat for Attila the Hun and later rose through the ranks of the Roman army.

Attila has intended to renew his attacks on Constantinople and reclaims the tribute which emperor Marcian had stopped in late 450.

Upon becoming Emperor, Marcian repudiated the embarrassing payments of tribute to Attila the Hun ( 434 – 453 ), which the latter had been accustomed to receiving from Theodosius II in order to refrain from attacks on the Eastern Empire.

Out of a population of 600, 000, an estimated 200, 000 Greek-Cypriots had been uprooted and forced to flee south of the Attila line, while an estimated 60, 000 Turkish-Cypriots remained south of the Attila line, uncertain of their fate.

Sometime before 449 their chieftain, Attila the Hun, Valentinian had granted the honorary title of Magister militum of the western empire upon Attila, and the western court was relieved when he concentrated on raiding the eastern empire ’ s provinces in the Balkans from 441 through to 449.

The result of this embassy, together with a plague which was breaking out among his troops as well as the threat of famine and news that the eastern emperor Marcian had launched an attack on the Hun homelands along the Danube, forced Attila to turn around and leave Italy.

Tarasis was probably related to the Isaurian general Zeno, who had fought against Attila in 447 to defend Constantinople and had been consul the following year.

In accordance to Hunnic customs, Attila had his diviners examine the entrails of a sacrifice the morning before battle.

Attila was forced to seek refuge in his own camp, which he had fortified with wagons.

Addressing Attila's fearsome reputation, and the importance of this battle, Gibbon noted that it was from his enemies we hear of his terrible deeds, not from friendly chroniclers, emphasizing that the former had no reason to elevate Attila's reign of terror, and the importance of the Battle of Chalons in proving Attila to be defeatable.

Attila had both Hunnic and Germanic families and prominent Germanic chiefs amongst his close entourage in Europe.

After the downfall of the Roman Empire, Torcello was one of the first lagoon islands to be successively populated by those Veneti who fled the terra firma ( mainland ) to take shelter from the recurring barbarian invasions, especially after Attila the Hun had destroyed the city of Altinum and all of the surrounding settlements in 452.