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@Il Principe well the archaeological findings suggest that the people who live within and around huns were living like huns. because of that some archaeologists mistakenly identified some germanic burial sites as hunnic burial sites. this suggests that huns were feared or respected or both during that era. about the revolts, only when they see a weakness people tend to break away from their oppressors. that is the reality of all times in history.
@@adnan_honest_jihadist5775 because russians despise the Turks and Russia is the only nation that obliterated the Mongols . Mongols could never destroy russians they at most made them subservient but never could conquered it . Russia wanted the legacy of the Byzantine empire all by itself and never liked anyone who challenged them that's why they fought the Bulgars
I loved the description the first Roman generals conveyed to Caesar. " They are thick of body, with cold dark eyes. They do everything on horseback. Their arrows pierce our armor like they are made of straw. They will kill their own who decide to retreat. Their horses have great stamina, like the savages who ride them. This is a threat like no other"
When describing the great Atilla the hun, the romans had this East Asian description; "He was indeed a lover of war, yet restrained in action, mighty in counsel, gracious to suppliants and lenient to those who were once received into his protection. 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 swarthy skin, showing evidence of his origin." The Great Atilla thoroughly conquered Germania, but the roman empire was not yet in reach due to early passing. Though the germans were scared of the huns and forced to flee from them (they ended up revering him and putting him in their mythology LMAO), it ended up being that the germanics were forced to fight the easier (in decline) enemy, by dealing the end to western rome once and for all.
@@myrnaa1077 Ironically (considering he is thought of as the bogeyman) what allowed him to succeed was his restraint and strategic thinking. Brutality will only get you so far, and he knew when to scare the shit out of people and when to win them over by more subtle means
@@myrnaa1077 the Huns were from the area of Mongolia / Northeastern China, the pronunciations of Xiongnu were *hoŋ-nâ in Late Old Chinese and as *hɨoŋ-nɑ, we can definitely see where the name is from
The name of the first king of Hunnu was tumenshanyu. There are many people named tumen in Mongolia. Hunnu is also a Mongolian word. DNA analysis was also done on many graves of Hunnu people from Mongolia. It has been confirmed that 68.8% are similar to Mongolians. Also, Luut city of Hunnu was found in Mongolia. Luut is the Mongolian word for dragon in Mongolian. It has also been confirmed that the appearance, culture, traditions, and lifestyle of the Hunnu people are similar to those of the Mongolian people today.
Misykat Rahman inji means pearl, name of mother is İnci which is literally same.. munjuck is boncuk in modernTurkish and it was moncuk also literally same ant it means little drop, little ball like inci-incik. So both of these terms used in every Turkish and Turkic dialect in modern and old. It is also same in Uzbek, Kazak, Uygur etc.
张衡 Atil/Itil is the name of Volga river in Turkish and in all Turkic dialect, Atilla means itilli in even modern Turkish meaning from itil river/from river.. there is literally very old Turkoman tribe called as Itilli/Attila.
Delger Khangai that may be true but in those times there isn't a distinction between Turks and Mongols. In all the empires they built, other one is also included.
The huns are mentioned in Old Norse litterature showing theres was contact between the peoples. Edit: The source is a viking poem called Atlakviða. It is about the hunic king Attila. Very interesting read.
I see there are some discussions in comments regarding the Hunnic language and its connection to Turkic languages. Yes as the video said the empire itself is multiethnic and multilinguistic. However, the ruling family's language was oghur Turkic. Here is a section I am copying from a book about huns (the name of the book is at the end): " Turkic etymologies for the names of many of the other Hunnic kings and nobles before and after Attila, e.g. Mundzuk100 (Attila’s father, from Turkic Munčuq = ‘pearl/jewel’), Oktar/Uptar (Attila’s uncle, Öktär = ‘brave/powerful’), Oebarsius (another of Attila’s paternal uncles, Aïbârs = ‘leopard of the moon’), Karaton (Hunnic supreme king before Ruga, Qarâton = ‘blackcloak’), Basik (Hunnic noble of royal blood, early fifth century, Bârsiğ =‘governor’), Kursik (Hunnic noble of royal blood, from either Ku¨ rsiğ, meaning ‘brave or noble’, or Quršiq meaning ‘belt-bearer’).101 All three of Attila’s known sons have probable Turkic names: Ellac, Dengizich, Hernak, and Attila’s principal wife, the mother of the first son Ellac, has the Turkic name Herekan, as does another wife named Eskam (Ešqam = ‘companion of the Shaman’). It seems highly likely then from the names that we do know, most of which seem to be Turkic, that the Hunnic elite was predominantly Turkic speaking. However, in the western half of the empire, where most of their subjects spoke Germanic languages, the Huns may have used both Hunnic (Oghuric Turkic) and Gothic." Book - The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe by Hyun Jin Kim
@eretna beyligi No man you are so stupid, honestly. Stop hearing Turkish Propaganda. Attila comes from the Germanic (Gothic) name meaning father. Attila became a predominant name in Hungary because when the Huns were beaten by the Romans and the Germanic warriors, they fled to Hungary. Most remained there. And in Turkey many were named Attila because many believed Turkish Progpaganda that Attila was an ancestor of Turkish peoples. Alexander is a Greek name for example, but Russians also claim to be the inheritants of the Ancient Greek and Romans. People are believing such rubbish sometimes..it is incredible. And of courese in Hungary they say Attila is a Hungarian name ;) To make the Propaganda Puzzle perfect
Altai mountains are the homeland of ancient Gokturks (Turkic tribes), and Metehan, who is the founder of the empire of the Xiongnu, is a name from the Turkish language! European historians never mention the connection between the Xiongnu and Gokturk khanates although both of them were funded by the same nomadic tribes relative to each other and speak very similar dialects. Many Turkish historians today accept the Xiongnu as the Asian Huns.
Xiongnu was the homeland of proto-turks. Then those nomadic people started their own Age of Discovery after their split into multiple small Hunnic khanates. Those who were not in favor of the Hunnic split, started to migrate westward and mixed with asian scythians(who had the mongoloid type of look and were named "saq"), then they also started to explore persia, caucasus, Edil river(volga river) and eastern europe. All of their migrations were not just te migration, but was like first exploration expeditions. Similar to how europeans discovered new world, Hunnic nomads discovered Europe, and started their expansion into lesser developed europe. Attila and the other Hunns before him were the conquistadors of nomadic people, who started to subjugate european folks. Because european hunns were the small part of the hunns across the entire eurasian continent
Basically you are right, the early Huns in Asia were likely to be related to Scythians, Turks, Mongols, and Han Chinese. The Scythians provided the nomadic way of life, the Chinese provided organization and technology, and the Mongols and Turks provided most of the people, possibly including the language of the Huns. This is just one of the more reliable theories, the museum and the data are more convincing.
That and constantly losing to Celtic, you're right it's s hard life for your average hun. But still at least they have it better than their wee cousins the mini Huns.
The word "HU" in Mongolian means Human, and "Hunnic Empire" meant "Human Empire". And when somebody asks what is your origin? We would say "Hunnu". It is an ancient Mongolian word for "Human". Both "Turks and the Mongols" refer their ancestors to the "Huns" or the "Hunnu". The Hunnic people didn't care about race etc bcse it was not important for them or something that troubled them. So they would mix with others easily along the campaigns.
Impressively informative video. I just learned aspects of the Huns I didn't know about at all. I loved it. Whoever made this video a reality. Great job. You really impressed me in this video.
@@ghanvedsingh8946 Related? In which way? The Goths were a Germanic tribe, probably from the south of today's Sweden, of which, after dividing into western and eastern splinter groups, the Ostrogoths sided with the Huns while the Visigoths became Roman foederati.
I know it's been said a lot, but I really love the art in your recent videos. It's wonderfully detailed and the colors are so vibrant. The sound effects are also fantastic. I had my earphones in when I watched this and it felt like I was suddenly in a swamp/marsh in the middle of the night when I reached the 3:18 mark :D
Huns, Turks and Mongols have Scythian origins according to Byzantine records (from the article "The Byzantine Turks"). There is no record of Huns ever being wiped out or disappearing from Eastern Europe.
Attila was one of the greatest rulers and commanders at that time. Love from Sri Lanka. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos.
Atilla's grandfather name was Uldız (Uldin) which in Turkish Yıldız, means Star. It's came from an old Turkish epic. According to an epic, Oghuz Khan who ancestor of nomadic tribes, has 6 children, three of them celestial other three terrestrial. Celestial boys names: Gün (Sun), Ay (Moon), Yıldız (Star) Terrestrial boys name: Gök (Sky), Dağ (Mount), Deniz (Sea) Some founders changes their name and choose one of them for legality. For example Genghis name was Temüjin but he change his name and choose Çengiz, it's mean Deniz in Mongolian. Uldız (Uldin) did same thing. Now a question, why they take little brothers name? Because in nomadic culture tent belongs to little boys. So they mean - we are the real heir of Oghuz Khan.
Genghis/Tengiz/Cengiz etc doesn't mean the "sea" in Mongolian. The source of that title is highly debated and one suggestion is that he got that Turkic name and Han/Khan (ruler) to signify he is the ruler of everything, but there is no certainty. Also Oguz Khan epic as you said is an epic and there are many variations of it and none of them are certain, even if he actually existed. While there is a historical link with the Huns and Pro-Turks/Turkic tribes, it's not proven that Huns are in fact Turks
@@shakrooph The event is not the fact that the epic is real, but the fact that the Huns are mentioned in the epic. Huns are Turkish, Attilada is Turkish, this is indisputable. culture language war style everything is compatible with turks
@@merd209 indisputable is a very bold claim for something that is heavily disputed. I'd be happy to check your resources for a concrete evidence. Everything you mention to be "compatible with Turks" is plausible to relate Turks to Huns but it could be that they all were a part of the Hunnic nation along with other tribes and had heavy influence on each other. It could even be that population wise Turks were more dominant and could have had more influence but it's very difficult to pin point the origin. As a similar example, for decades many scholars from Turkey and around the globe had a theory that Turkish and Mongolian were in the same language group but then the theory got debunked and it was accepted that there is a heavy influence over each other due to living in close contact for a long time but not enough structural connection to suggest they form the same language group. Again there would be substantial amount of culture and language similarities with Mongolians but it wouldn't be valid to say Turks = Mongolians. Also again it's only a variation of the epic that it's about the Hun leader Mete and Atilla is not a direct descendant of Mete.
Because they were from the same region as Mongolians...Huns, Avars and conquering Hungarian nomadic groups arrived into the Carpathian Basin from the Eurasian Steppes and significantly influenced its political and ethnical landscape. In order to shed light on the genetic affinity of above groups we have determined Y chromosomal haplogroups and autosomal loci, from 49 individuals, supposed to represent military leaders. Haplogroups from the Hun-age are consistent with Xiongnu ancestry of European Huns. Most of the Avar-age individuals carry East Asian Y haplogroups typical for modern north-eastern Siberian and Mongolian Buryat populations and their autosomal loci indicate mostly unmixed East Asian characteristics.
@@altinbardhi different race but Turks and Mongols are They lived together for a long time, for example Genghis Khan's army was mostly Turkish Mongols were also a minority in their own empire and yes, after a certain time, there is a mixture. Turks and Mongols in Asia are similar to each other.
@@_B-Butters_ Mongols didnt live with turks turks is just neighbor country. After the establishment of the Mongol Empire, the Mongols had a small population and need soldiers and began to occupy neighboring countries to get soldiers. It did not mean that they were all Turks.China Russia and many other countries
@@user-eu5nx4ek9u You know, when the Huns were in Mongolia, they saw no sea (other than some salty lakes maybe). Perhaps when they reached Black/Caspian Sea they just named the sea tenger. We Chinese translated Tengri into "长生天", which means "the eternal/immotal sky".
@Hungary #1 Hungarian tenger is from the Bulgar language and is related to Kazakh tengiz, Turkish deniz, which means the same: sea. The correlation is R-Z: 9 in Turkish is dokuz, in Chuvash (the only surviving Bulgar language) toxur (x=kh), Hungarian ökör means OX, in Turkish it's öküz
@@user-eu5nx4ek9u no, it's related to kazakh tengiz, turkish den(g)iz, oğur = oğuz (R=Z). Hungarian is not Turkic but borrowed zillion of words from Bulgar and Khazar
Fun fact: in the germanic legends that evolved into Nibelungenlied, the Siegfried's widow married Atli who it seems to be Attila. So the intermarriage between germanics and huns was still present in norse mythology.
@Cyprus İs Turkey My friend according to some historians the Bulgars, the founders of Old great Bulgaria, Danube Bulgaria and Vologa Bulgaria and few more little not very known countries spoke oghuric turkic languige. There god was Tangra. When they conqure the slavic people and mix with them, the elite spoke turkic. I'm not gonna go into the Irano-sarmatic or any other version of the bulgars here.
When the Han Dynasty was ready to fight the Xiongnu, they prepared tens of thousands of cavalry and hundreds of thousands of infantry. In winter, they feed millet to the horses to maintain their fighting power, and then launch a general attack in the spring. Nomadic people do not have millet, after all, it was very luxurious to feed horses millet in ancient times.After the defeat, the Huns split into two branches. One surrenders and the other migrates to Central Asia
Turks were already in central Asia. The majority of Turks belonged to the xiongnu state, some of them were in Central Asia. we migrated to central asia from the northern forests of siberia.
The ancient Chinese had a governing hierarchy that allowed them to organize such enormous projects such as the building the great wall. That's why they could raise such enormous armies, that's why they could drive the Xiongnu people away. The Europeans did not have that kind of hierarchy, and for the Huns fighting the ancient Chinese then the Europeans was like playing multiplayer first and then switch to single player campaign
yeah i read that the normads were at their weakest right after winter as their livestocks and horses will lose weight because there would be no grass for them to graze during then and so the best time to attack them is right after winter.
@@johndoe123xyz I mean the Europeans at the time had a pretty complex governing hierarchy in the Roman Empire. The Huns just happened to attack when it was already in its downward spiral and they just helped speed it up. Had Attila invaded during the time of Trajan or Constantine it would’ve been different.
@@nathanfrancis9411roman government at that point of history were puppet emperors ruling the countries in the interests of monopolists. That was the main issue of rome since lower class, slaves and middle class were suffering from corrupted rome
Abulghazi Bahadur, khan of the Khanate of Khiva (1643-63), told of the Ergenekon Mongolian creation myth in his work, 17th-century "Shajara-i Turk" (Genealogy of the Turks). So it is Mongolian legend.
@@focusontheargument genetically? This is a misconception about Turkey turks. Turkey turks are, genetically, mix of central asian turkic people and native anatolians like hittites, greek and armenian genes are lower than people believe so. Even if it wasn't not all turkic people are from turkey you dumbass
Some of you said that these names are common in Turkey and a few other examples. To the question, was it always common in Hungary or just recently became a popular name? Yes, it was always common, and its considered a very old name here. There have been many great and leading figures in Hungary called these names. The Huns were a mix of different ethincs groups, part modern Hungarian, part modern Turkish, etc.
@sneksnekitsasnek Well there have been people called Attila since the foundation of the Hungarian Kingdom (1000 AD) and even before that. As I just wrote in my other comment there are historcal figures in Hungary's history called this. Attila as a name got especially popular at around 1800 and then reaching its highest point around 1960-1970 when it was the 6. most common name in Hungary. So as said it was always popular, but it got even more so in recent decades. Its still very common today. As for the name Elek it was much more popular back in the time. The further back you go in history the more common it gets. Nowadays its not that common anymore, as more and more parents choose the names which have a western origin and are just made to sound more Hungarian. There is also a smaller town called Elek in Hungary btw.
"Genghis khan's army consisted of the Mongol general and other steppe tribes like naimans...." Lmao, this is my tribe, still exists in Kazakhstan, origin is the North East Kazakhstan and some naimans live in the western China too, after the collapse of the mogol empire together with the other steppe tribes formed the kazakh nation Just to think my distant ancestors fought in the Mongol army and conquered the world, probably that is why all my relatives look so different, half Asian and half white Edit: we also still have the sword related customs and rituals f. E. People swore on the sword and when children are born their family sword is put under their bed to protect an infant from bad energy and honor the spirits of the ancestors
Just saying: there is never a straight line between the so-called ‘white’ and ‘Asian’ people... no one was ever pure and everyone constantly moved around... today’s narrative of ‘race’ comes from the centuries’ old colonial construction in attempt to subjugate the colonized... even the idea of ‘Europe’ and ‘Asia’ was completely man-made, putting countries like Russia and Turkey in deep ambiguity...
Sa Ba I think this is wonderful that there is still a tradition not out honoring the newborns but the ancestors all at once per se..so much gets lost..time honored traditions esp those w/such powerful intent should’ve been the ones to ensure were passed on..
Half Asian half white ? do you mean Kypcak Kuman Turks ?? Mongol Army % 85 Turkic cos mongols never ever ancient race..or got population to make ARMYS build empires..Got good Khans and commanders short of time..And turkic tribes followed helped them..Thats it..in the END other Turkic Tribe Mamluks pwned their ASS..
Tengri Biz Menen, Huns would drink Kimiz ( alcoholic beverage from horse milk ). The Huns/Turks believe that a Grey wolf lead them out of the Altay Mountains into the steppes
@UCBbnuCP8POOnKSINsOk7pMQ yea I agree this document..monghols are not turk as genetic...but their lifestyle similar because of geographic and cultural occupation..
There is an interesting claim about the origin of the name "Atilla" that appears in both Hungarian and Turkish people. Itil river (Russian: River Volga, the region which was the capital of ancient Khazaria) was also pronounced as "Atil". Atil means Atilgan, Aggressive in turkish. It is still used occasionally in Turkish to express impatient people. I can easily see it pronounced as Atilgan firstly, and alter into Atilla with centuries passing by. Interestingly as a side note; Kapgan Khan (Qapaghan Khan, Mòchuò in some sources) known as the 2nd Göktürk Kagan, was also named after his personal traits. Kap means "to grab", "to snatch" "to take" "sometimes to steal what belongs to others" "to invade". And Kapgan means "the one who invades." Not only that. In the Islamized Ottoman (Some say "Ataman") there was "Yıldırım" Bayezid. Jıldırım or Yıldırım means "Lightning" in Turkish. In other words, as in ancient and native American society, it is customary for Turks to give the name of the child born as a "nickname", perhaps long after he or she is born.
Volga is Ijil Murun meaning Same River in Mongolia. Atilgan is replica of Mongolian word Adilhan which means Same. I wonder if today’s so called turkish people who look like arabs or french still use the word adilhan or ijilhen to say when two things are same. Turkish Mongolians call the flower the same Tsetseg. But today’s turks are not what turkic was in the days where we shared the same word to call a flower. Turks chose different religion Allah but we Mongolians stayed true Shamanist kept Shamanism alive for 4000 years until even to this day.
@@tuguldurlkhagvadorj8331 You sound like the typical Mongolian I've come across online. I don't understand your intention, but it seems like an insult to me that you compare us to Arabs or French. Nothing personal, sorry if i am wrong. But know that if you say this to an ordinary Turk, they will take it as an insult. Now I will prove to you that we are not Arabs or French. The word you wrote as "ijilhen" is probably the word we use as "itilen" meaning= "pushed". Atilgan = Atılan = Being thrown at, or the one who jumps forward. So being pushed and thrown are essentially similar. The word you use as "Tsetseg" is written as "Çiçek" in us. Its pronunciation is "Chichek". Doesn't it mean anything to you that the two words you gave examples are in today's Turkiye-Turkish? We were already Ottomans(Ataman) 500 years ago, the westerners gave the name Turk. They called the place we live as Turkia. Because although we have forgotten, we are Turkish. They know better than us for sure. Westerners have a habit of recording history in writing. We didn't have this. We carved some things on stones or somewhere else. But it was never enough. Today, some Turks hate you (for fighting against Islam) and some sympathize with you (like me) because your pastoral lifestyle reminds us of our ancestors. Not everyone is "from the city" in Turkey. It certainly has its equivalent in Mongolian. In Turkish, two different groups are defined as Urban and Villagers. (Köylü-Şehirli / Obalı -Şehirli) I think this debate has existed since the beginning of history. Villagers are more dependent on Customs (Töre-Tigir) . Urbanites are more likely to assimilated by foreign cultures. There are still many people who live pastoral life, keep livestock and keep horses in Türkiye. I don't want to get into a religious debate with you. I just want to explain some things. We are not all Muslims. And many of us live by blending Islam with Tengriism in our own way. The name of our ancient god is "Tengri". We were never shamans. Shamans were common people in Asia. The real Turkish follows "Tengri". It has no gender, lives in the sky (In universe). Oghuz kaan deported the shamans to the east, to present-day Mongolia, just as you said. This is how the Arabs sold their religion to the Turks. They said that Tengri and Allah are similar. If you read the history a little bit, you will understand that not "in fact" Turks have become Arabs, but that Arabs and Iranians have become Turkish, and even the caliph was a puppet of the Turks. These events took place during the Seljuk period. Selcuk bey was actually a Tengriist. It was the yabgu of the Oghuz confederation. After they became Muslims, they established a great empire, they did not do anything different from what your ancestors wanted to do (red apple-golden apple-the unreachable goal-world domination.) Because in the time of Oguz Kaan (some say that he was the Great Hun Emperor), there was a belief that the Turks dominated the world and this should be experienced again. You saw and recognized the remnants of the Seljuks as the Harzemshahs. But I don't know if they give information about Turkish history in general in Mongolia. You tell me about common ancestor and history. We Turks know that we are descended from a common ancestor with the Mongols, or at least close enough to be called cousins. Today, when I watch the Mongolian festivals, when I see the wrestlers, it is difficult to distinguish them from those in my own country. When you speak your language slowly, I can understand some sentences. First explain why your great khan of half Turkish origin killed the Cuman-Kipchaks. They had a completely different phenotype than you, but your commander, Subutay, also knew that they were genetically close to you. This is something I am particularly curious and sad/mad about. Turks and steppe people have never had a single ethnicity. The Turkish image you see in the TV series, I'm sorry, but it existed in Mongolia 2000 years ago. It is true and natural that our phenotype has been influenced by elements such as Greek-Slavic-Iranian-Arab. In the work named Cami'üt-tevarih, written by Reşidüddin Fazlullah between 1304 and 1316, dedicated to İlkhanlı Han Olcaytu Han, the author of the book explains the concept of Türk, based on their dispersal over a wide geography, that the Turks were Oghuz called Turkmen; After stating that Kipchak, Kalaç, Kanklı, Karluk and others belonged to them, and that their dialects were close to each other, he also noted that there were differences among all of these Turkish tribes due to the conditions of the places they lived. In addition, he brought the Turks directly from the descendants of the son of Noah, in accordance with the conceptions of the period. The reason for this is that the Oghuzs were very influential in the Ilkhanid country at that time. So, can you explain why you look like Chinese? If only you've read the Orkhon inscriptions in Central Asia!
Atilgan does not mean aggressive in Turkish; gullible is more apt translation of the word, root the word of which, is the imperative, "ATIL" ; means , jump, go forward! No connection with the word aggressive. Aggressive in Turkish is " BASKICI", originating from BASKI, means PRESSURE, and, baskici, is the one who pressurizes.
As a turk I can say huns are the great fathers of turks and mongols in turkish history there are three types of huns:Asian huns,Western huns and White huns.Asian huns are the great fathers of mongols and turks because Chinese say göktürks are a decented of huns
After the death of Atilla, his empire collapsed.Part of the Huns returned to Euroasian steppes, another part stayed in Europe , adopted christianity and established a Hungarian kingdom. Its written on the Royal Crown of Hungary: "King Geza- the faithful king of Turks".. Moreover Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus (948-952 AD) called Hungarians (Magyars) as Turks and their land as Turkland (Turkiya) in his book 'De Administrando Imperio' and also called Arpad as the 'Great prince of Turks'..
@Jonathan The language of the nomads was very simple. Modern day Hungarians and Turks have been separated from each other for about 2000 years. Their languages took different path to develop. Today there are 6 Independant Turkic states. Hungary is an active partisipant in the organization of Turkic Counsel.
Probably what the Roman historian meant by the Huns having "no religion" was that the Romans regarding any foreign beliefs and practices they didn't like as a "supersticio" as opposed to a "true" "religio."
I dont think so. Foreigners could not understand the religion of nomads. An example Arabs to called "no religion" for non muslim/Zarathustran/Budhist/Manichaean/Jews/Nasturi christ Turkic peoples.
Romans regularly assimilated religious beliefs and practices from other groups, it seems unlikely they would have assumed someone has no religion simply because it's foreign. In fact they seem to have believed that all religions were legit and feared the gods of other religions as much as they would have feared their own gods.
@@ericlanglois9194 True, but in the pre-Christian Roman polytheistic religion, religious tolerance only existed as long as your religion did not threaten the Roman State or the Emperor. I.e. Druidism, Judaism (60s-70s AD) and Christianity (before 320s AD).
You guys are doing a tremendous service to the history by enlightening people with their past and also making it interesting to understand even for the people who never studied history or considered it as a boring subject. I, himself as a history student do appreciate your efforts and would like to suggest that if you can please add present-day pics of the places where many battles were fought that will be more interesting. If people ever visited those places but were unaware of the history of that place, will be able to relate themselves with that place and cherish their memories and it will attract more people to visit those places.
In 16 minutes I learned and retained more information about the Huns than books, other videos, and tv episodes about the subject could ever do. I hope you guys become mainstream mainstream one day!
In Turkish we have lı, li, lu, lü suffixes which we when describing a person from a nation from a certain place or a nation. Sometimes even call the nation itself with the same way. Such as Istanbul-Istanbullu or Çin(China) Çinli(Chinese),Yunan(Greek)-Yunanlı(Greek). So Hun-Hunlu must be the same. And it sounds similar with the word xiongnu.
Utopian yeah something like that. Different romanization may also spell it like Hsiung-nu... X may also be pronounced as /h/ as well as in ‘México’... Hong Kong would be Hieung-Gang in Cantonese and Xiang-Gang in Standardized Mandarin.
@@mertcoskun7382 Ama gene aynı sonuca çıkıyor Yunanistan''lı'' , Hindistan ''lı''. Bende Çanakkale ''li'' yim :D Ama Ordu'lu arkadaşım var lu örneği vermek için yazdım :)
Where did this bullshit came from? Havent heard of it anywhere at all, can you give us sources? The byzantine classified everyone having alliance with abbasids as arabs or simply the infidels/anti christ. The only people that knew seljuks were orginally turks are arabs and persians whicu themselves recorded their languages, tribes and culture. You can simply see that by searching لغة الترك on google.
@@balporsugu7046 Firstly they were allies with the sassanids against the hephthalites in which they defeated them and divided their state among themselves, the gokturks wanted to trade with the romans via the silk road in which the shah of persia (khosrow) declined and responded with (i control the silk road and your products will be bought my us and then sold for them, not directly). The gokturks were unhappy with that response so for the conclusion wanted alliance with the romans but eventuslly were crushed by the sassanids in the gokturk-persian wars (2 wars to be exact). The romans claimed to be allies with them but never responded during the war and left the gokturks vulnerable for defeat againdt the sassanids. Heres the thing, the romans called them saka due to knowledge about scythians (which were not turks anyways) but just titled them that. The seljuks were called turks (and only that) not huns or sakas or anything other than turks, arabs and persians called them that because they knew them, the romans claimed them as seljuks or caliphate army duringnthe battle of manzikert. They started calling them seljuk turks later on during seljuks of rum (in anatolia) hope this clears everything out.
Good video in tying together a number of elements in Hun origin and history. I suspected the Huns had an Oriental origin when I saw"Xiongnu" translated as "Huns" in several translator apps. Your description was the simplest and clearest concerning the origin of the Huns. I hope you do future episodes with the Magyars and the Goths.
In Turkey have very local word; "Tenger tos" which mean turning insight out/my life destroyed/punished from god etc. Old villagers using a different situations.
Conan: [chuckles] Crom laughs at your four winds. He laughs from his mountain. Subotai: My god is stronger. He is the everlasting sky! Your god lives underneath him.
I absolutely LOVE this channel... all their videos are not only historically accurate & educational but also extremely entertaining.... Keep up the great work....!!
In the old Chinese pronunciations the word for "Xiong" ~ is pronounced something like "Hun" or "Hunn" So yeah, the world "Xiongnu" did pretty much sound like "Hunna"
I am Chinese and I love history. The first time I knew about the Huns I instinctively thought they were connected to the Xiongnu(匈奴). But I might be wrong.
That looks corruption of Zion (xion in Chinese) they must be the Jewish tribes allienced with other non state actors of central asea who most probably came with Alexander the great from various parts of Persian empire and Greece when thrown out of power became state less n roamed around in step lands of central Asia
"Who needs school when you have Kings and Generals as your teacher ... " Attila's speech in 451 before the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (True story by the way, I was there.)
Thank you for a great video. always love watching. I heard many crap stories about the origins of the Huns. Everyone interprets it in a way they like. I think your presentation is the best, very impressive. Articulating that link existed between the Huns and Xiongnu would probably be disliked by many )) This explains the blue spot found on the back of newborns of some Europeans ;-)
In Turkey they teach us that the Xiongnu was basically the asiatic huns and atilla etc were european huns edit: for some people in the comments thinking that they teach us atilla was turkish. : they dont teach us that atilla was turkish, they teach us that he was one of our ancestors. We learn that Mete Han (modu chanyu) was our first leader, the story of him is identical to Oghuz Khagan which is the semi-mythological leader of Turks,considering the European Huns are xiognu that migrated westwards, then yes Atilla is our ancestor.
@@affentaktik2810 I think you're telling us a lot of bullshit too considering you have no degree regarding turkology you with your superficial knowledge don't talk like you have a doctor title sit down take a seat bitch
A hungarian friend of mine told me he went to visit the Himalayas. Under, a bit further, he met some people who called themselves the Magars. For those who don't know, hungarians call themselves "Magyar".
You just created a comment thread where people are going to drop thier favorite history channels, and then arhue with other people about other history channels.
I really appreciate the deep dive you did on the origins of the Huns, as it relates to the Xiangu tribes of Mongolia. Genetic evidence suggests that they did indeed leave their Asian DNA among certain ethnic groups in Eurasia.
Xiangnu themselves were already mixed due to Indo European migration into Mongolia. Even today Mongols(!) have 9% "European" genes in them. Read this very interesting paper based on CHinese sources and genetic studies of ancient Xiangu
donkey fitting. The Mongolian word originated around 1200 and has no connection with the xiongnu. The Turks, who migrated from the forests of Northern Siberia to the north of Central Asia and China, established the xiongnu state. Today, the date of Oğuz Kağan's accession to the throne is shown as the foundation year of the Turkish Armed Forces.
The name of the first king of Hunnu was tumenshanyu. There are many people named tumen in Mongolia. Hunnu is also a Mongolian word. DNA analysis was also done on many graves of Hunnu people from Mongolia. It has been confirmed that 68.8% are similar to Mongolians. Also, Luut city of Hunnu was found in Mongolia. Luut is the Mongolian word for dragon in Mongolian. It has also been confirmed that the appearance, culture, traditions, and lifestyle of the Hunnu people are similar to those of the Mongolian people today.
Do more non military stuff. Please. You tube needs it. By all means do both but you guys really shine through when you do vids like this. Love all your work ✌🏼
@@lionelhutz5137 and then the Ottoman Turks entered the chat and boy is it getting crowed. Xiong-Nu: 4th century B.C.-2nd century B.C. Huns(Xiong-Nu part 2): 370A.D.-453A.D. Mongols:1206A.D.-1380A.D. Ottoman Turks: 1299A.D.-1923A.D. Modern Turkey(Possible revived Ottoman Empire): 2020 A.D.????
In Hungary the name was introduced in the 19th century by orientalist fashions. In Turkey the name was introduced in the 1930's by the turkish reform. So originally neither of these countries had that name.
@@davidbence485 Attila the Hun was of the Dulo clan. The Dulo clans later created Magna Bulgaria, then Danube Bulgaria, then Volga Bulgaria, some say that also the Chuvash and the Balkarians are heirs but I don't know if they are really descended of the Dulo clan, a tribe led by a member of the Dulo clan Alcek also migrated and settled in Southern Italy.
Thank you Kings and Generals, you are one of the best , putting real history documentary that matter. Atilla the Hun gets very little attention than it should. From the east to the northern Sea he united the various tribes of Europe that were militaristic and fighting with Rome, Hunnic invasions also let the eastern militaristic discipline adopted by Goths, Alans and Norse Confederacy for example.
@@vonclausewitz8558 actualy hes name is Mao-tun(probably Baghadur which mean courage/soldier/hero) we translated hes name Chinese sound and call him Mete.
love this video, always make me come to watch again anyway this apocalyptic proportions always come back every 700 years so i hope i could join and be part of history.
The european Huns used germanic straight swords. The best infantry was the gepids in Attila's army. And the gepids were a german tribe, and manufactured great straight swords. The Sabre is better against less armored enemies, but the straight swords are better against better armored enemies like the romans.
I'm a recent subscriber, but am a poverty-stricken student so haven't yet felt able to help out on patreon. That said, I'd be immensely grateful if you'd consider producing a video on the Anarchy period in England? It's a fascinating period, with a couple of interesting battles (the Battle of the Standard, and the Battle of Lincoln in particular). I feel it's very little-known, and something that'd really benefit from the Kings and Generals treatment.
@Grant Willis oh no, not really, it's more down to the fairly broken student loan/bursary systems we have here. Woe betide if you if your parents fall into the wrong salary band. Not low enough for grants, not high enough to be able to independently support you. Brexit's not an issue at all.
The sword cult was foundational to gothic culture from the Baltic. Tyrfingr is the old Norse name for “a certain sword” that became a mouth prop for the bound Fenrir wolf. This myth relates the process of taking the warrior spirit to become socially beneficial alchemists like Chinese myths of the Stone Monkey King trapped in Buddha’s Palm in a mountain called “5 Element Mountain.” Snorri said that Tyrfingr was a Kenning for any sword, and it means “Heaven’s Finger.” Jews use the finger wand of God to turn the pages of the Torah. Tyrfingr was the Gothic Excalibur, as the stone is the spine down which the wolf spit, called “hope,” drips. It’s the cerebral-spinal fluid dripping down the spinal cord from the brain.
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz For those hater comment, I want to say: Congratulations! Your brain successfully fucked by Jews, and a joker called Cohen! LOL..
Bulgars have amazing ancestry, sadly politics nowadays fail to show it and spread it. Thankfully there's people like you! Love from Bulgaria. And love to all the ancestors of the steppe people. We can only be proud!
@@NubiansNapata I would refer you to the Nominalia of the Bulgarian khan's. I am well aware Bulgarians now are not what huns are since we are so mixed now we were even then that's precisely the meaning of the word bulgar. they spoke Mixed. It refers to the mixture of tribes in the steppe but we also had thracians and slavs in Bulgaria, not to mention it's 2021 so nobody is 100% anything. Look at Hungary for instance they are steppe people too.
@@Toktobay987 The Huns and Bulgars spoke closely related languages different from others “barbarian” languages. The relations between the language of Bulgars and Huns were studied by Harvard professor Pritsak in his notable work "The Hunnic Language of the Attila Clan" (1982).He termed the language of Bulgars as Hunno-Bulgarian. Pritsak analyzed the 33 survived Hunnic personal names and concluded that the language of the Bulgars was Hunnic language
@@HeyZenci Kısaca hunların orta asya 'dan geldiğini belirtmiş . Türkler ve Moğollar ile bağlantısını ortaya koymuş her ne kadar direkt olarak bahsetmiş olmasa da .
@@tarikyildirim6120 arkadaşın merak ettiği sorunun Hunlar ve Türkler arasında bir bağlantı kurulmuş mudur sorusu olduğu tahmininde bulunarak kısaca cevapladım ;) . Yoksa geniş bir özete pek çok kişi gibi zamanım yok . Meselemiz birbirimizin açıklarını aramak olmadığında daha ileri seviye de olacağımıza inanıyorum iyi akşamlar .
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In 2 minutes keep up the good videos.
I love how you have byzantine labeled Roman Empire
How about the origins of Magyars ( Hungarians ) next time? :)
Awesome
Battle of Karansebes.
"germano-huns"
Literally the worst nightmares of Rome had a child.
@Il Principe well the archaeological findings suggest that the people who live within and around huns were living like huns. because of that some archaeologists mistakenly identified some germanic burial sites as hunnic burial sites. this suggests that huns were feared or respected or both during that era. about the revolts, only when they see a weakness people tend to break away from their oppressors. that is the reality of all times in history.
That’s got to be the dumbest comment in the history of RUclips.
Russians the worst nightmare for the Turks and the Germans
@Silviu Florin your expecting alot from a guy who's nation name is Turkey
@@adnan_honest_jihadist5775 because russians despise the Turks and Russia is the only nation that obliterated the Mongols . Mongols could never destroy russians they at most made them subservient but never could conquered it .
Russia wanted the legacy of the Byzantine empire all by itself and never liked anyone who challenged them that's why they fought the Bulgars
I loved the description the first Roman generals conveyed to Caesar. " They are thick of body, with cold dark eyes. They do everything on horseback. Their arrows pierce our armor like they are made of straw. They will kill their own who decide to retreat. Their horses have great stamina, like the savages who ride them. This is a threat like no other"
When describing the great Atilla the hun, the romans had this East Asian description;
"He was indeed a lover of war, yet restrained in action, mighty in counsel, gracious to suppliants and lenient to those who were once received into his protection. 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 swarthy skin, showing evidence of his origin."
The Great Atilla thoroughly conquered Germania, but the roman empire was not yet in reach due to early passing. Though the germans were scared of the huns and forced to flee from them (they ended up revering him and putting him in their mythology LMAO), it ended up being that the germanics were forced to fight the easier (in decline) enemy, by dealing the end to western rome once and for all.
@@myrnaa1077 Ironically (considering he is thought of as the bogeyman) what allowed him to succeed was his restraint and strategic thinking. Brutality will only get you so far, and he knew when to scare the shit out of people and when to win them over by more subtle means
Too cool🔥
@@myrnaa1077 the Huns were from the area of Mongolia / Northeastern China, the pronunciations of Xiongnu were *hoŋ-nâ in Late Old Chinese and as *hɨoŋ-nɑ, we can definitely see where the name is from
The name of the first king of Hunnu was tumenshanyu. There are many people named tumen in Mongolia. Hunnu is also a Mongolian word. DNA analysis was also done on many graves of Hunnu people from Mongolia. It has been confirmed that 68.8% are similar to Mongolians. Also, Luut city of Hunnu was found in Mongolia. Luut is the Mongolian word for dragon in Mongolian. It has also been confirmed that the appearance, culture, traditions, and lifestyle of the Hunnu people are similar to those of the Mongolian people today.
Attila's fathers name is Mundjuk which means Pearl in Turkic languages.
No its not, its inju/inji
attila means gold in monglia
Misykat Rahman inji means pearl, name of mother is İnci which is literally same.. munjuck is boncuk in modernTurkish and it was moncuk also literally same ant it means little drop, little ball like inci-incik. So both of these terms used in every Turkish and Turkic dialect in modern and old. It is also same in Uzbek, Kazak, Uygur etc.
张衡 Atil/Itil is the name of Volga river in Turkish and in all Turkic dialect, Atilla means itilli in even modern Turkish meaning from itil river/from river.. there is literally very old Turkoman tribe called as Itilli/Attila.
@@misykatrahman9106 It is boncuk in Turkish. Monşaq in Kazakh.
>worship a god of war
>prey to their weapons
Huns were real life space marines.
@@idgafatall1562 like you never lie about your life to make sound better
Dont you dare compare divine spaca marines with some barbaric huns who tore down Rome itself you fucking idiot.
@@Ace-id3ky Necrons>Chaos>Nids>Eldar>Imperium>Tao Space marines are basically Hun level to be honest.
I haven't heard about space marines for decades...👍
@@idgafatall1562
>enter argument
>state all parties are wrong
>refuses to clarify or explain
Their exile into the altai mountains seems so similar to the Ergenekon Legend of the Göktürks.
Great reference
The Huns are the prototurks.
I think it is too similar to call it similar.
@@ganizhunis910 no
Delger Khangai that may be true but in those times there isn't a distinction between Turks and Mongols. In all the empires they built, other one is also included.
The huns are mentioned in Old Norse litterature showing theres was contact between the peoples. Edit: The source is a viking poem called Atlakviða. It is about the hunic king Attila. Very interesting read.
That, or that the norse borrowed tales from their germanic neighbors.
you gotta check old turkic alphabet, somehow its runic , and those runes are lookin alot like norse runes. wonder how did we get those
@@mercianthane2503 Asia Huns: Turkish/Turkic
Europa Huns: Siberian , cermen, arab,Mongolian
No Attila is tTurkic word. Attila means : equistrian , from itil. And others
@@_berat.ugur_3089 yes and Atle is a germanification of the word when the scandinavians had contact with the huns in the merovingian period.
I see there are some discussions in comments regarding the Hunnic language and its connection to Turkic languages. Yes as the video said the empire itself is multiethnic and multilinguistic. However, the ruling family's language was oghur Turkic. Here is a section I am copying from a book about huns (the name of the book is at the end):
" Turkic etymologies for the names of many of the other Hunnic kings and nobles before and after Attila, e.g. Mundzuk100 (Attila’s father, from Turkic Munčuq = ‘pearl/jewel’), Oktar/Uptar (Attila’s uncle, Öktär = ‘brave/powerful’), Oebarsius (another of Attila’s paternal uncles, Aïbârs = ‘leopard of the moon’), Karaton (Hunnic supreme king before Ruga, Qarâton = ‘blackcloak’), Basik (Hunnic noble of royal blood, early fifth century, Bârsiğ =‘governor’), Kursik (Hunnic noble of royal blood, from either Ku¨ rsiğ, meaning ‘brave or noble’, or Quršiq meaning ‘belt-bearer’).101 All three of Attila’s known sons have probable Turkic names: Ellac, Dengizich, Hernak,
and Attila’s principal wife, the mother of the first son Ellac, has the Turkic name Herekan, as does another wife named Eskam (Ešqam = ‘companion of the Shaman’).
It seems highly likely then from the names that we do know, most of
which seem to be Turkic, that the Hunnic elite was predominantly Turkic speaking. However, in the western half of the empire, where most of their subjects spoke Germanic languages, the Huns may have used both Hunnic (Oghuric Turkic) and Gothic."
Book - The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe by Hyun Jin Kim
bruh, turks didnt even originate back in the times of Atilla.
@@kluts4137 talking about proto turks we didn't exist out of nothing don't talk stupid
Turks didn´t exist in those times. And Attila itself is a Germanic or Gothic name (Atta= father).
@@patrickhauser588 check out the physical features of the attilla and talk later, does it look like you're stupid
@eretna beyligi No man you are so stupid, honestly. Stop hearing Turkish Propaganda.
Attila comes from the Germanic (Gothic) name meaning father.
Attila became a predominant name in Hungary because when the Huns were beaten by the Romans and the Germanic warriors, they fled to Hungary. Most remained there.
And in Turkey many were named Attila because many believed Turkish Progpaganda that Attila was an ancestor of Turkish peoples. Alexander is a Greek name for example, but Russians also claim to be the inheritants of the Ancient Greek and Romans. People are believing such rubbish sometimes..it is incredible.
And of courese in Hungary they say Attila is a Hungarian name ;)
To make the Propaganda Puzzle perfect
Altai mountains are the homeland of ancient Gokturks (Turkic tribes), and Metehan, who is the founder of the empire of the Xiongnu, is a name from the Turkish language! European historians never mention the connection between the Xiongnu and Gokturk khanates although both of them were funded by the same nomadic tribes relative to each other and speak very similar dialects. Many Turkish historians today accept the Xiongnu as the Asian Huns.
Xiongnu was the homeland of proto-turks. Then those nomadic people started their own Age of Discovery after their split into multiple small Hunnic khanates. Those who were not in favor of the Hunnic split, started to migrate westward and mixed with asian scythians(who had the mongoloid type of look and were named "saq"), then they also started to explore persia, caucasus, Edil river(volga river) and eastern europe. All of their migrations were not just te migration, but was like first exploration expeditions. Similar to how europeans discovered new world, Hunnic nomads discovered Europe, and started their expansion into lesser developed europe. Attila and the other Hunns before him were the conquistadors of nomadic people, who started to subjugate european folks. Because european hunns were the small part of the hunns across the entire eurasian continent
Basically you are right, the early Huns in Asia were likely to be related to Scythians, Turks, Mongols, and Han Chinese. The Scythians provided the nomadic way of life, the Chinese provided organization and technology, and the Mongols and Turks provided most of the people, possibly including the language of the Huns. This is just one of the more reliable theories, the museum and the data are more convincing.
I can only imagine how hard life must have been for the Huns, imagine being hungover on horseback all the time
its probably why they beat the piss outta people.
"STOP. TALKING. SO. LOUDLY."
I thought he said they didnot drink while driving.
That and constantly losing to Celtic, you're right it's s hard life for your average hun. But still at least they have it better than their wee cousins the mini Huns.
No it doesnt, Drinking and riding horse and wherever you go in grassland that is most fantastic thing in the world.
I hear those Hunic warriors have curved swords. Curved. Swords.
@@cosmopolitanbay9508 It was a reference from Skyrim but whatever...
@@cosmopolitanbay9508 It wasn't my reference and this guys name is literally "Imperial Dovahkiin" and also who the fuck doesn't know Skyrim.
We're the children of Skyrim and we'll fight all our lives. When Sovengard beckons everyone of us dies...
I bet Hunnic archers aimed for the knee
@@cosmopolitanbay9508 the name Hungarians came from ONOGUR means 10 OGURS
The word "HU" in Mongolian means Human, and "Hunnic Empire" meant "Human Empire".
And when somebody asks what is your origin? We would say "Hunnu".
It is an ancient Mongolian word for "Human".
Both "Turks and the Mongols" refer their ancestors to the "Huns" or the "Hunnu".
The Hunnic people didn't care about race etc bcse it was not important for them or something that troubled them.
So they would mix with others easily along the campaigns.
😅HUN might be KUN wich means SUN , i think huns not mongols they r ogur turks. Decendants of huns are Chuvash and Kazan tatars.
@@siyacer What language?
@@ragnarlodbrok1012 Incestors of Huns are Mongols, Kazakhs, Kyrgizs and Uyghurs...
Beautiful
Thats right. Xiongnu and Huns were a mixation of nomadic people, it didnt matter what races it contained
Impressively informative video. I just learned aspects of the Huns I didn't know about at all. I loved it. Whoever made this video a reality. Great job. You really impressed me in this video.
3rd and 4th century politics be like:
"I'm a Gotho-Gepid with Hunnic characteristics"
Yes Goth were also related to the Hunas
@@ghanvedsingh8946 Related? In which way? The Goths were a Germanic tribe, probably from the south of today's Sweden, of which, after dividing into western and eastern splinter groups, the Ostrogoths sided with the Huns while the Visigoths became Roman foederati.
Ghanved Singh Goths were not related to the Huns bro, if anything they were mortal enemies
Do you know that story of Mahabharata it was between cousin brothers only
If I remember correctly the Gepids were among the Gothic tribes. Idk this isn't directly combating your common but clarification helps
I know it's been said a lot, but I really love the art in your recent videos. It's wonderfully detailed and the colors are so vibrant. The sound effects are also fantastic. I had my earphones in when I watched this and it felt like I was suddenly in a swamp/marsh in the middle of the night when I reached the 3:18 mark :D
Same here man
Headphone buddies
Huns, Turks and Mongols have Scythian origins according to Byzantine records (from the article "The Byzantine Turks"). There is no record of Huns ever being wiped out or disappearing from Eastern Europe.
Attila was one of the greatest rulers and commanders at that time. Love from Sri Lanka. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos.
I'm so impressed by your art style and presentation! Thank you very much!
Thanks for this masterpiece video.
Hello from Kazakhstan!
Merhaba kardeşim. Türkiyeden.
Can I get some potassium
Hey from Nebraska! live well bro
Hello Borat
And a hello to you too!
Ah the good old Bleda and Attila, the nostalgia of AoE 2 is too much.
Suyash Bhagwat great game -
Same here.... AoE nostalgia... and killing of bleda in the hand of attila
@@alraziosmany It's such a great game man, I grew up with that game.
I still play AoE2 and there's a really great community in steam
@@AcZe1188 I'm going to buy it, think they're releasing AoE 2 with new graphics and such.
Atilla's grandfather name was Uldız (Uldin) which in Turkish Yıldız, means Star. It's came from an old Turkish epic. According to an epic, Oghuz Khan who ancestor of nomadic tribes, has 6 children, three of them celestial other three terrestrial.
Celestial boys names: Gün (Sun), Ay (Moon), Yıldız (Star)
Terrestrial boys name: Gök (Sky), Dağ (Mount), Deniz (Sea)
Some founders changes their name and choose one of them for legality.
For example Genghis name was Temüjin but he change his name and choose Çengiz, it's mean Deniz in Mongolian. Uldız (Uldin) did same thing. Now a question, why they take little brothers name? Because in nomadic culture tent belongs to little boys. So they mean - we are the real heir of Oghuz Khan.
Turks didn´t even exist then. Turks began to exist in 550 after Christ.
Genghis/Tengiz/Cengiz etc doesn't mean the "sea" in Mongolian. The source of that title is highly debated and one suggestion is that he got that Turkic name and Han/Khan (ruler) to signify he is the ruler of everything, but there is no certainty. Also Oguz Khan epic as you said is an epic and there are many variations of it and none of them are certain, even if he actually existed.
While there is a historical link with the Huns and Pro-Turks/Turkic tribes, it's not proven that Huns are in fact Turks
@@shakrooph The event is not the fact that the epic is real, but the fact that the Huns are mentioned in the epic. Huns are Turkish, Attilada is Turkish, this is indisputable. culture language war style everything is compatible with turks
@@merd209 indisputable is a very bold claim for something that is heavily disputed. I'd be happy to check your resources for a concrete evidence. Everything you mention to be "compatible with Turks" is plausible to relate Turks to Huns but it could be that they all were a part of the Hunnic nation along with other tribes and had heavy influence on each other. It could even be that population wise Turks were more dominant and could have had more influence but it's very difficult to pin point the origin. As a similar example, for decades many scholars from Turkey and around the globe had a theory that Turkish and Mongolian were in the same language group but then the theory got debunked and it was accepted that there is a heavy influence over each other due to living in close contact for a long time but not enough structural connection to suggest they form the same language group. Again there would be substantial amount of culture and language similarities with Mongolians but it wouldn't be valid to say Turks = Mongolians.
Also again it's only a variation of the epic that it's about the Hun leader Mete and Atilla is not a direct descendant of Mete.
@@shakrooph Anca bu şekilde münasip bi tarafınızdan tarih uydurarak kendinizi avutun
Huns believed in Tengri, the sky god.
Because they were from the same region as Mongolians...Huns, Avars and conquering Hungarian nomadic groups arrived into the Carpathian Basin from the Eurasian Steppes and significantly influenced its political and ethnical landscape. In order to shed light on the genetic affinity of above groups we have determined Y chromosomal haplogroups and autosomal loci, from 49 individuals, supposed to represent military leaders. Haplogroups from the Hun-age are consistent with Xiongnu ancestry of European Huns. Most of the Avar-age individuals carry East Asian Y haplogroups typical for modern north-eastern Siberian and Mongolian Buryat populations and their autosomal loci indicate mostly unmixed East Asian characteristics.
@@altinbardhi it's not true. they believe tengrism
@@altinbardhi different race but Turks and Mongols are They lived together for a long time, for example Genghis Khan's army was mostly Turkish Mongols were also a minority in their own empire and yes, after a certain time, there is a mixture. Turks and Mongols in Asia are similar to each other.
@@_B-Butters_ Mongols didnt live with turks turks is just neighbor country. After the establishment of the Mongol Empire, the Mongols had a small population and need soldiers and began to occupy neighboring countries to get soldiers. It did not mean that they were all Turks.China Russia and many other countries
@@suldeesuldee6989 Turks were nomads and you may have seen Turks with shaved heads, they lived with the Mongols and were influenced by their culture.
Tengri also means "God" or "Heaven" in Mongolian, in Turkish Tanri, in Azeri Tanri as well
Tenger is applied to the skies which is blue. If Hungarians apply it to the sea which is also blue. Interesting.
@@user-eu5nx4ek9u You know, when the Huns were in Mongolia, they saw no sea (other than some salty lakes maybe).
Perhaps when they reached Black/Caspian Sea they just named the sea tenger.
We Chinese translated Tengri into "长生天", which means "the eternal/immotal sky".
Kazakh Tengri
@Hungary #1 Hungarian tenger is from the Bulgar language and is related to Kazakh tengiz, Turkish deniz, which means the same: sea.
The correlation is R-Z: 9 in Turkish is dokuz, in Chuvash (the only surviving Bulgar language) toxur (x=kh), Hungarian ökör means OX, in Turkish it's öküz
@@user-eu5nx4ek9u no, it's related to kazakh tengiz, turkish den(g)iz, oğur = oğuz (R=Z). Hungarian is not Turkic but borrowed zillion of words from Bulgar and Khazar
"Origins of the Huns"
I can't wait until this channel covers "The Ethnic Battles of The Hun Video's Comment Section!"
My popcorn is ready.
Let the battle commence
They where Turkic
@@ahamedihamiyun5927 they were cockic
@@ahamedihamiyun5927 and so it begins
@@ahamedihamiyun5927 turkic people are made up of many different races and people.
Great video mate. Absolutely filled with information that is useful for research
Fun fact: in the germanic legends that evolved into Nibelungenlied, the Siegfried's widow married Atli who it seems to be Attila. So the intermarriage between germanics and huns was still present in norse mythology.
When it actually didn't happen in Scandinavia...
west germanic mythology, not norse. Main part of the story is at the Rhine.
Atilla was the first gamer in Europe
Kebabman The Kebab-giver he ruined Rome’s whole career
he had enough Roman oppression of gamers so he came from asia to save us
@@barsnack7999 Who are Magyars
@@Righteous1ist Hungarians ! Hun= Hungary
@@ggarai3042 Wrong. Hungarians are not huns but magyars.
Hello to everyone from the Chuvash Republic.
Türkiye'den esenlikler
Always welcome to Danube Bulgaria you who are the people descended from khanasubigi Kotrag.
@Cyprus İs Turkey My friend according to some historians the Bulgars, the founders of Old great Bulgaria, Danube Bulgaria and Vologa Bulgaria and few more little not very known countries spoke oghuric turkic languige. There god was Tangra. When they conqure the slavic people and mix with them, the elite spoke turkic. I'm not gonna go into the Irano-sarmatic or any other version of the bulgars here.
True descendants of Huns, the Chuvashians.
@@kila200 Sarmats are not Iranic though, it is proven.
When the Han Dynasty was ready to fight the Xiongnu, they prepared tens of thousands of cavalry and hundreds of thousands of infantry. In winter, they feed millet to the horses to maintain their fighting power, and then launch a general attack in the spring. Nomadic people do not have millet, after all, it was very luxurious to feed horses millet in ancient times.After the defeat, the Huns split into two branches. One surrenders and the other migrates to Central Asia
Turks were already in central Asia. The majority of Turks belonged to the xiongnu state, some of them were in Central Asia. we migrated to central asia from the northern forests of siberia.
The ancient Chinese had a governing hierarchy that allowed them to organize such enormous projects such as the building the great wall. That's why they could raise such enormous armies, that's why they could drive the Xiongnu people away. The Europeans did not have that kind of hierarchy, and for the Huns fighting the ancient Chinese then the Europeans was like playing multiplayer first and then switch to single player campaign
yeah i read that the normads were at their weakest right after winter as their livestocks and horses will lose weight because there would be no grass for them to graze during then and so the best time to attack them is right after winter.
@@johndoe123xyz I mean the Europeans at the time had a pretty complex governing hierarchy in the Roman Empire. The Huns just happened to attack when it was already in its downward spiral and they just helped speed it up. Had Attila invaded during the time of Trajan or Constantine it would’ve been different.
@@nathanfrancis9411roman government at that point of history were puppet emperors ruling the countries in the interests of monopolists. That was the main issue of rome since lower class, slaves and middle class were suffering from corrupted rome
Its incredible how much you can learn about history from a 15 min long video!
Those pesky Khergites will just hole up in their last castle to the far East whilst their small armies raid your villages...
Less talking more raiding
Is that a warband reference?
@@we1rdfuk It's almost harvesting season
That’s a nice head you have on your shoulders
@@mobileslug9603 march 2020 harvesting season
As a Graphic Designer i can say that thi art style is so amasing it made me subbscribe before even watching one third from the video. Respect!
Welcome aboard!
thx so much for working so hard and for publishing this for free
7:00 isnt this the turcic legend Ergenekon
Aynen knk o
I think so
Abulghazi Bahadur, khan of the Khanate of Khiva (1643-63), told of the Ergenekon Mongolian creation myth in his work, 17th-century "Shajara-i Turk" (Genealogy of the Turks). So it is Mongolian legend.
@@focusontheargument genetically? This is a misconception about Turkey turks. Turkey turks are, genetically, mix of central asian turkic people and native anatolians like hittites, greek and armenian genes are lower than people believe so. Even if it wasn't not all turkic people are from turkey you dumbass
@@focusontheargument bro even in one generation outer-looks can change a lot
Elek and Attila are still very common names in Hungary today
and in turkey
What a suprise. The most commonly used names in Turkey: Atillla, Metehan, Teoman.
this is because modern nationalism re-invented those names
Some of you said that these names are common in Turkey and a few other examples.
To the question, was it always common in Hungary or just recently became a popular name? Yes, it was always common, and its considered a very old name here. There have been many great and leading figures in Hungary called these names.
The Huns were a mix of different ethincs groups, part modern Hungarian, part modern Turkish, etc.
@sneksnekitsasnek Well there have been people called Attila since the foundation of the Hungarian Kingdom (1000 AD) and even before that. As I just wrote in my other comment there are historcal figures in Hungary's history called this. Attila as a name got especially popular at around 1800 and then reaching its highest point around 1960-1970 when it was the 6. most common name in Hungary. So as said it was always popular, but it got even more so in recent decades. Its still very common today.
As for the name Elek it was much more popular back in the time. The further back you go in history the more common it gets. Nowadays its not that common anymore, as more and more parents choose the names which have a western origin and are just made to sound more Hungarian. There is also a smaller town called Elek in Hungary btw.
"Genghis khan's army consisted of the Mongol general and other steppe tribes like naimans...."
Lmao, this is my tribe, still exists in Kazakhstan, origin is the North East Kazakhstan and some naimans live in the western China too, after the collapse of the mogol empire together with the other steppe tribes formed the kazakh nation
Just to think my distant ancestors fought in the Mongol army and conquered the world, probably that is why all my relatives look so different, half Asian and half white
Edit: we also still have the sword related customs and rituals f. E. People swore on the sword and when children are born their family sword is put under their bed to protect an infant from bad energy and honor the spirits of the ancestors
Just saying: there is never a straight line between the so-called ‘white’ and ‘Asian’ people... no one was ever pure and everyone constantly moved around...
today’s narrative of ‘race’ comes from the centuries’ old colonial construction in attempt to subjugate the colonized...
even the idea of ‘Europe’ and ‘Asia’ was completely man-made, putting countries like Russia and Turkey in deep ambiguity...
@@nehcooahnait7827 he is white asian because he is mix of Mongol and Turkic cuman ! Cumans were blonde Turkic people.
Sa Ba I think this is wonderful that there is still a tradition not out honoring the newborns but the ancestors all at once per se..so much gets lost..time honored traditions esp those w/such powerful intent should’ve been the ones to ensure were passed on..
Half Asian half white ? do you mean Kypcak Kuman Turks ?? Mongol Army % 85 Turkic cos mongols never ever ancient race..or got population to make ARMYS build empires..Got good Khans and commanders short of time..And turkic tribes followed helped them..Thats it..in the END other Turkic Tribe Mamluks pwned their ASS..
My Sarmatians originated in khazastan thousands of years before lol
I just wanted to say your channel is GREAT please keep it up.😃
In love with your video ! 🥰 Good graphic and thorough study yet so simple explanation to be understood 💯
Tengri Biz Menen, Huns would drink Kimiz ( alcoholic beverage from horse milk ). The Huns/Turks believe that a Grey wolf lead them out of the Altay Mountains into the steppes
@UCBbnuCP8POOnKSINsOk7pMQ yea I agree this document..monghols are not turk as genetic...but their lifestyle similar because of geographic and cultural occupation..
Turks=Centeral Asians. Turkish people=Anatolians conquered by Turks. Go to Kazhkstan and they look nothing like Turkish people.
@@MrBsct No. Turkic: central asians like Özbek, Türkmen ... Turkish: Anatolian Turks. All of them is Türk.
@Arda Gezik yea I readed academical books about origins of turks most of hungarian danish or other historians agree about it
@@MrBsct bro u r speaking nonsense
basically the eurasian steppes is a bane for empires
Hitler and Napoleon agree with this comment.
Nomads can mobilize huge armies. Every male is also a soldier.
The Russians disagree
Not a bane anymore, LUL.
@president camacho the bottom line is that the Russians unified all the lands from the baltics all the way to the Pacific
Tengri believers only respect to all presences. Their believes 1 god. It's On the sky.
aptal :D Tengri inancı panteistiktir.
There is an interesting claim about the origin of the name "Atilla" that appears in both Hungarian and Turkish people. Itil river (Russian: River Volga, the region which was the capital of ancient Khazaria) was also pronounced as "Atil". Atil means Atilgan, Aggressive in turkish. It is still used occasionally in Turkish to express impatient people. I can easily see it pronounced as Atilgan firstly, and alter into Atilla with centuries passing by.
Interestingly as a side note; Kapgan Khan (Qapaghan Khan, Mòchuò in some sources) known as the 2nd Göktürk Kagan, was also named after his personal traits. Kap means "to grab", "to snatch" "to take" "sometimes to steal what belongs to others" "to invade". And Kapgan means "the one who invades."
Not only that. In the Islamized Ottoman (Some say "Ataman") there was "Yıldırım" Bayezid. Jıldırım or Yıldırım means "Lightning" in Turkish.
In other words, as in ancient and native American society, it is customary for Turks to give the name of the child born as a "nickname", perhaps long after he or she is born.
That's true. Atil in old Turkic languages meant to strike or fearless.
Volga is Ijil Murun meaning Same River in Mongolia. Atilgan is replica of Mongolian word Adilhan which means Same. I wonder if today’s so called turkish people who look like arabs or french still use the word adilhan or ijilhen to say when two things are same. Turkish Mongolians call the flower the same Tsetseg. But today’s turks are not what turkic was in the days where we shared the same word to call a flower. Turks chose different religion Allah but we Mongolians stayed true Shamanist kept Shamanism alive for 4000 years until even to this day.
@@tuguldurlkhagvadorj8331 You sound like the typical Mongolian I've come across online. I don't understand your intention, but it seems like an insult to me that you compare us to Arabs or French. Nothing personal, sorry if i am wrong. But know that if you say this to an ordinary Turk, they will take it as an insult.
Now I will prove to you that we are not Arabs or French.
The word you wrote as "ijilhen" is probably the word we use as "itilen" meaning= "pushed". Atilgan = Atılan = Being thrown at, or the one who jumps forward. So being pushed and thrown are essentially similar.
The word you use as "Tsetseg" is written as "Çiçek" in us. Its pronunciation is "Chichek".
Doesn't it mean anything to you that the two words you gave examples are in today's Turkiye-Turkish? We were already Ottomans(Ataman) 500 years ago, the westerners gave the name Turk. They called the place we live as Turkia. Because although we have forgotten, we are Turkish. They know better than us for sure. Westerners have a habit of recording history in writing. We didn't have this. We carved some things on stones or somewhere else. But it was never enough.
Today, some Turks hate you (for fighting against Islam) and some sympathize with you (like me) because your pastoral lifestyle reminds us of our ancestors. Not everyone is "from the city" in Turkey. It certainly has its equivalent in Mongolian. In Turkish, two different groups are defined as Urban and Villagers. (Köylü-Şehirli / Obalı -Şehirli) I think this debate has existed since the beginning of history. Villagers are more dependent on Customs (Töre-Tigir) . Urbanites are more likely to assimilated by foreign cultures.
There are still many people who live pastoral life, keep livestock and keep horses in Türkiye.
I don't want to get into a religious debate with you. I just want to explain some things.
We are not all Muslims. And many of us live by blending Islam with Tengriism in our own way. The name of our ancient god is "Tengri". We were never shamans. Shamans were common people in Asia. The real Turkish follows "Tengri". It has no gender, lives in the sky (In universe). Oghuz kaan deported the shamans to the east, to present-day Mongolia, just as you said.
This is how the Arabs sold their religion to the Turks. They said that Tengri and Allah are similar. If you read the history a little bit, you will understand that not "in fact" Turks have become Arabs, but that Arabs and Iranians have become Turkish, and even the caliph was a puppet of the Turks. These events took place during the Seljuk period. Selcuk bey was actually a Tengriist. It was the yabgu of the Oghuz confederation. After they became Muslims, they established a great empire, they did not do anything different from what your ancestors wanted to do (red apple-golden apple-the unreachable goal-world domination.) Because in the time of Oguz Kaan (some say that he was the Great Hun Emperor), there was a belief that the Turks dominated the world and this should be experienced again.
You saw and recognized the remnants of the Seljuks as the Harzemshahs. But I don't know if they give information about Turkish history in general in Mongolia.
You tell me about common ancestor and history. We Turks know that we are descended from a common ancestor with the Mongols, or at least close enough to be called cousins. Today, when I watch the Mongolian festivals, when I see the wrestlers, it is difficult to distinguish them from those in my own country. When you speak your language slowly, I can understand some sentences.
First explain why your great khan of half Turkish origin killed the Cuman-Kipchaks. They had a completely different phenotype than you, but your commander, Subutay, also knew that they were genetically close to you. This is something I am particularly curious and sad/mad about.
Turks and steppe people have never had a single ethnicity. The Turkish image you see in the TV series, I'm sorry, but it existed in Mongolia 2000 years ago. It is true and natural that our phenotype has been influenced by elements such as Greek-Slavic-Iranian-Arab.
In the work named Cami'üt-tevarih, written by Reşidüddin Fazlullah between 1304 and 1316, dedicated to İlkhanlı Han Olcaytu Han, the author of the book explains the concept of Türk, based on their dispersal over a wide geography, that the Turks were Oghuz called Turkmen; After stating that Kipchak, Kalaç, Kanklı, Karluk and others belonged to them, and that their dialects were close to each other, he also noted that there were differences among all of these Turkish tribes due to the conditions of the places they lived. In addition, he brought the Turks directly from the descendants of the son of Noah, in accordance with the conceptions of the period. The reason for this is that the Oghuzs were very influential in the Ilkhanid country at that time.
So, can you explain why you look like Chinese? If only you've read the Orkhon inscriptions in Central Asia!
Atilgan does not mean aggressive in Turkish; gullible is more apt translation of the word, root the word of which, is the imperative, "ATIL" ; means , jump, go forward!
No connection with the word aggressive.
Aggressive in Turkish is " BASKICI", originating from BASKI, means PRESSURE, and, baskici, is the one who pressurizes.
@@tuguldurlkhagvadorj8331 Mongols and Turks were not Shamanists, they were from a religion called Sky Goddess.
As a turk I can say huns are the great fathers of turks and mongols in turkish history there are three types of huns:Asian huns,Western huns and White huns.Asian huns are the great fathers of mongols and turks because Chinese say göktürks are a decented of huns
Holy shit I was legit thinking of the Huns yesterday, K&G is psychic confirmed
same for me, just a few days ago i thought "aw man it would be nice if kings and generals had a video abou where the huns came from and what they did"
I thought I was alone before I scrolled down to read the comments !
Same, I played Total War Attila for the first time in a while yesterday
Tbh i think about the huns every day 😳
Our energy is heard and cherished!
After the death of Atilla, his empire collapsed.Part of the Huns returned to Euroasian steppes, another part stayed in Europe , adopted christianity and established a Hungarian kingdom. Its written on the Royal Crown of Hungary: "King Geza- the faithful king of Turks".. Moreover Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus (948-952 AD) called Hungarians (Magyars) as Turks and their land as Turkland (Turkiya) in his book 'De Administrando Imperio' and also called Arpad as the 'Great prince of Turks'..
Hungarian connection is debunked.
@liljana zhiti My y-dna is R1a-Z2124, greatgrandfather was from the turk minority in Bulgaria - nationality turkish.
@Jonathan The language of the nomads was very simple. Modern day Hungarians and Turks have been separated from each other for about 2000 years. Their languages took different path to develop. Today there are 6 Independant Turkic states. Hungary is an active partisipant in the organization of Turkic Counsel.
@@mahakalabhairava9950 proven*
@@puruttyaaa No. It is simply not a Turkic language.
Every time Turkic people: let’s raid China
“China retaliates”
“Turks fled west”
The West: ah shit, here we go again
huns are not proven to be turkic and they were more likely yeniseian.turkic mix
@@valt8025 central asia so turkic
@@_berat.ugur_3089 hard to say modern day Turkish and Kazakhs do not looked the same
@@JYGoat LOOK OF COURSE DİFFERNET! OGUZ TURKS ( SO WE ) GO IRAN OLD TİME. AND MİXED SOME.
@@Atilla963 genetically modern turkish are closer to greeks and armenians tho.....
Probably what the Roman historian meant by the Huns having "no religion" was that the Romans regarding any foreign beliefs and practices they didn't like as a "supersticio" as opposed to a "true" "religio."
I dont think so. Foreigners could not understand the religion of nomads. An example Arabs to called "no religion" for non muslim/Zarathustran/Budhist/Manichaean/Jews/Nasturi christ Turkic peoples.
Romans regularly assimilated religious beliefs and practices from other groups, it seems unlikely they would have assumed someone has no religion simply because it's foreign. In fact they seem to have believed that all religions were legit and feared the gods of other religions as much as they would have feared their own gods.
No Romans had a multi god religion
@@ericlanglois9194 True, but in the pre-Christian Roman polytheistic religion, religious tolerance only existed as long as your religion did not threaten the Roman State or the Emperor. I.e. Druidism, Judaism (60s-70s AD) and Christianity (before 320s AD).
By that time (451AD) the Romans were thoroughly Christianized. "No religion" meant pagan or animist.
You guys are doing a tremendous service to the history by enlightening people with their past and also making it interesting to understand even for the people who never studied history or considered it as a boring subject. I, himself as a history student do appreciate your efforts and would like to suggest that if you can please add present-day pics of the places where many battles were fought that will be more interesting. If people ever visited those places but were unaware of the history of that place, will be able to relate themselves with that place and cherish their memories and it will attract more people to visit those places.
Hanuman is a little bitch & terrorist
Hanuman was defeated by Vali
Hanuman got his ass kicked by Indradevta
Can't wait for your Schythians episode.
Where was this channel all along? Brilliant material.
In 16 minutes I learned and retained more information about the Huns than books, other videos, and tv episodes about the subject could ever do. I hope you guys become mainstream mainstream one day!
In Turkish we have lı, li, lu, lü suffixes which we when describing a person from a nation from a certain place or a nation. Sometimes even call the nation itself with the same way. Such as Istanbul-Istanbullu or Çin(China) Çinli(Chinese),Yunan(Greek)-Yunanlı(Greek). So Hun-Hunlu must be the same. And it sounds similar with the word xiongnu.
In older Chinese dialect xiongnu was pronounced Hunnu
Utopian yeah something like that. Different romanization may also spell it like Hsiung-nu... X may also be pronounced as /h/ as well as in ‘México’... Hong Kong would be Hieung-Gang in Cantonese and Xiang-Gang in Standardized Mandarin.
Turkish as in turkey or in turkstan
Yunanlı yanlış kullanımdır hocam. Hintli gibi.
@@mertcoskun7382 Ama gene aynı sonuca çıkıyor Yunanistan''lı'' , Hindistan ''lı''. Bende Çanakkale ''li'' yim :D Ama Ordu'lu arkadaşım var lu örneği vermek için yazdım :)
Very cool and formative!
amazing video, thank you
the Seljuk Turks were also classified by the Byzantines as 'Huns'.
Thank you.. True My freind
Where did this bullshit came from?
Havent heard of it anywhere at all, can you give us sources? The byzantine classified everyone having alliance with abbasids as arabs or simply the infidels/anti christ.
The only people that knew seljuks were orginally turks are arabs and persians whicu themselves recorded their languages, tribes and culture. You can simply see that by searching لغة الترك on google.
@@balporsugu7046
Firstly they were allies with the sassanids against the hephthalites in which they defeated them and divided their state among themselves, the gokturks wanted to trade with the romans via the silk road in which the shah of persia (khosrow) declined and responded with (i control the silk road and your products will be bought my us and then sold for them, not directly). The gokturks were unhappy with that response so for the conclusion wanted alliance with the romans but eventuslly were crushed by the sassanids in the gokturk-persian wars (2 wars to be exact).
The romans claimed to be allies with them but never responded during the war and left the gokturks vulnerable for defeat againdt the sassanids. Heres the thing, the romans called them saka due to knowledge about scythians (which were not turks anyways) but just titled them that.
The seljuks were called turks (and only that) not huns or sakas or anything other than turks, arabs and persians called them that because they knew them, the romans claimed them as seljuks or caliphate army duringnthe battle of manzikert. They started calling them seljuk turks later on during seljuks of rum (in anatolia) hope this clears everything out.
OwnTrick There are arabs that live in turkey but Turks are not Arabs.
LOL. Turks are not Turkic!!! Turks of today are arabs! Old turkic that used to be in Turkey have mostly Disappeared !
Good video in tying together a number of elements in Hun origin and history. I suspected the Huns had an Oriental origin when I saw"Xiongnu" translated as "Huns" in several translator apps. Your description was the simplest and clearest concerning the origin of the Huns. I hope you do future episodes with the Magyars and the Goths.
I just love it you used Total was: Attila Hun theme.
Butun Turk dunyosiga salomlar, biz bir ajdod dan kelganmiz
Altin Bey Qazaqstannan Turk bauyrlarğa Salem 🤘🏼🦅🇰🇿♥️🇹🇷🐺🤘🏼
@Donat Rahmat, ammo mani profil rasmi Turkiston bayrog'i :)
@@altinbey5831 Basmachi movement flag
62🤙🏻🇹🇷🤣aleyküm selam
@@kubat552 you already know brother ;)
Loving the attila total war theme music in the background. Dont know why but i like mongol throat singing very much
U feel the battle field with u feet ahahah damn nice
Throat songing does not belong only Mongols. Other nomadic tribes such as Huns (today we know them as Turkic people) does throat singing as well
Its one of my favorite Total War OSTs
THat's Turkic though not Mongolian.
HUNS are Turks . They are not mongols. You false know
Also in Hungarian "tenger" means:
A) sea
B) vast/huge/immeasurably numerous > tengernyi / tenger-sok
It is smilar but origin göktengri mean blue sky
In Turkey have very local word; "Tenger tos" which mean turning insight out/my life destroyed/punished from god etc. Old villagers using a different situations.
@Mr Doggo if they are descendant why was feudal anarchy in Hungary in the XI. century?
@Mr Doggo yes, .. and they killed each other
Hunarians most certainly mingled with Huns a lot but they're more related to eastern-european peoples, like Finns (the most), Balts and Slavs.
Conan: [chuckles] Crom laughs at your four winds. He laughs from his mountain.
Subotai: My god is stronger. He is the everlasting sky! Your god lives underneath him.
My favourite movie
I pray to the four winds
@@jonathanduplantis1403 I don't get people who don't like this movie.
SUBUTAİ İS TUVAN TURKİC. :)
Total war music in the background has me thrilled.
I absolutely LOVE this channel... all their videos are not only historically accurate & educational but also extremely entertaining.... Keep up the great work....!!
Thanks for watching!
Almost a million subscribers and they still personally respond to my comment... Thank you & you have a subscriber for life... Super impressed...
In the old Chinese pronunciations the word for "Xiong" ~ is pronounced something like "Hun" or "Hunn"
So yeah, the world "Xiongnu" did pretty much sound like "Hunna"
And how they spell hungarian?
I am Chinese and I love history. The first time I knew about the Huns I instinctively thought they were connected to the Xiongnu(匈奴). But I might be wrong.
@Yung cash register A.K.A Lil Broomstick A nuk ngjan me shume si hunde ajo fjale? Fjala Hunna, them.
@@zoltantakacs5001 In Chinese, 匈牙利 or Xiōngyálì Your name (Takacs) is Hungarian (Magyar) right? Beszélsz magyarul?
That looks corruption of Zion (xion in Chinese) they must be the Jewish tribes allienced with other non state actors of central asea who most probably came with Alexander the great from various parts of Persian empire and Greece when thrown out of power became state less n roamed around in step lands of central Asia
In the Byzantine sources, the Seljuks were called as hun when they first came and seljuks are turkic
@Noah Pritchett / The handsome apologist no hun were turkic
@@scourgeofgodattila579 That has zero meaning
@The Celtic Apologist thats dumb
@@Lipton3373 It does but you just don't want to see it.
i always come to read comments rather than watching the video. Keep fightin
"There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow again."
Attila the Hun.
@Haroon Abdul Majeed He said that figurative. He meant that he will rain death
Man could he fart!
@@oghuzkhan6136 "He meant that he will rain death"
Not enough then.
What a loser.
Said Turcophobic! Attilla was a Hun! Fool
@@yumani_ Huns were not Turkic. This is Panturkism propaganda.
"Who needs school when you have Kings and Generals as your teacher ... " Attila's speech in 451 before the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
(True story by the way, I was there.)
Kami Attack ahh I remember that day. My steam powered bronze spiders tore across the battle field ending the Huns.
@@heronofalexandria91 thanks for starting the industrial revolution in the 1st century👍
Brian Williams is that you?
Henricus Silvanus I also discovered the secret to eternal life (don’t tell anybody)
@@heronofalexandria91 okay i keep it
Thank you for a great video. always love watching. I heard many crap stories about the origins of the Huns. Everyone interprets it in a way they like. I think your presentation is the best, very impressive. Articulating that link existed between the Huns and Xiongnu would probably be disliked by many )) This explains the blue spot found on the back of newborns of some Europeans ;-)
Informative - years ago in school it was inferred scattered and disappeared after
Attila's demise.
In Turkey they teach us that the Xiongnu was basically the asiatic huns and atilla etc were european huns
edit: for some people in the comments thinking that they teach us atilla was turkish. : they dont teach us that atilla was turkish, they teach us that he was one of our ancestors. We learn that Mete Han (modu chanyu) was our first leader, the story of him is identical to Oghuz Khagan which is the semi-mythological leader of Turks,considering the European Huns are xiognu that migrated westwards, then yes Atilla is our ancestor.
feelsgoodman Unfortunately turkey teaches a lot of bullshit about turkic, mongolic, tartar history which is sad cuz its actually really interesting
@@affentaktik2810 i wouldn't call it bullshit, what they taught us is true to a great extent
@@affentaktik2810 I think you're telling us a lot of bullshit too considering you have no degree regarding turkology you with your superficial knowledge don't talk like you have a doctor title sit down take a seat bitch
@TheEnforced then tell us Where is attila from?
Enlighten us pls
Yes! I just got home and I was desperate to watch some good history right now. You just uploaded a video :)
I live for these videos .
A hungarian friend of mine told me he went to visit the Himalayas. Under, a bit further, he met some people who called themselves the Magars. For those who don't know, hungarians call themselves "Magyar".
Hungarians often believe weird stuff about their origins.
Turks call Hungarians as Macar.
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The Holy Trinity of History-channels.
+Skurtavus Grodolfus *Sad Epimetheus noises*
@@retregratotherversrsentre7727 Ahhh man Epimetheus is fantastic, totally forgot about him. Poor sod :(
do not forget bazbattles :)
@@liveforever141 and history marche, history matters and history time
You just created a comment thread where people are going to drop thier favorite history channels, and then arhue with other people about other history channels.
I really appreciate the deep dive you did on the origins of the Huns, as it relates to the Xiangu tribes of Mongolia. Genetic evidence suggests that they did indeed leave their Asian DNA among certain ethnic groups in Eurasia.
Of course. The huns took over part of France and raided on the Roman's 2.
The same with Mongols. They took over Russia, China, hungary, and Poland. They were on their way to France and England when they back tracked.
@@brianticas7671 the history of humanity is so interesting. People are always migrating.
Xiangnu themselves were already mixed due to Indo European migration into Mongolia. Even today Mongols(!) have 9% "European" genes in them. Read this very interesting paper based on CHinese sources and genetic studies of ancient Xiangu
donkey fitting. The Mongolian word originated around 1200 and has no connection with the xiongnu. The Turks, who migrated from the forests of Northern Siberia to the north of Central Asia and China, established the xiongnu state. Today, the date of Oğuz Kağan's accession to the throne is shown as the foundation year of the Turkish Armed Forces.
The name of the first king of Hunnu was tumenshanyu. There are many people named tumen in Mongolia. Hunnu is also a Mongolian word. DNA analysis was also done on many graves of Hunnu people from Mongolia. It has been confirmed that 68.8% are similar to Mongolians. Also, Luut city of Hunnu was found in Mongolia. Luut is the Mongolian word for dragon in Mongolian. It has also been confirmed that the appearance, culture, traditions, and lifestyle of the Hunnu people are similar to those of the Mongolian people today.
Do more non military stuff. Please. You tube needs it. By all means do both but you guys really shine through when you do vids like this. Love all your work ✌🏼
Western Europe after the huns - "Why do I feel like this is a warning for something bigger in the next few centuries?"
*Mongols enter the chat*
*Atleast it cant get any worse* 😂
yes
Gonna be China next lmao
Europeans: *after Mongols leave* "phew, well, at least the worst is behind us"
*Timurids enter chat*
@@lionelhutz5137 and then the Ottoman Turks entered the chat and boy is it getting crowed.
Xiong-Nu: 4th century B.C.-2nd century B.C.
Huns(Xiong-Nu part 2): 370A.D.-453A.D.
Mongols:1206A.D.-1380A.D.
Ottoman Turks: 1299A.D.-1923A.D.
Modern Turkey(Possible revived Ottoman Empire): 2020 A.D.????
Today still there are so many people in Hungary and Turkey who have Attila's name.
Yet none of them are related to Attila or the Huns!
In Hungary the name was introduced in the 19th century by orientalist fashions. In Turkey the name was introduced in the 1930's by the turkish reform. So originally neither of these countries had that name.
@@davidbence485 wrong atilla is a name used in turkey for thausends of years the huns where turks
@@davidbence485 Attila the Hun was of the Dulo clan. The Dulo clans later created Magna Bulgaria, then Danube Bulgaria, then Volga Bulgaria, some say that also the Chuvash and the Balkarians are heirs but I don't know if they are really descended of the Dulo clan, a tribe led by a member of the Dulo clan Alcek also migrated and settled in Southern Italy.
@@kemalsurmeli7722
Turkey is barely 100 years into existence, even ottoman empire started around 500 years ago.
2:17
Music from TW Attila make it even better
Thank you Kings and Generals, you are one of the best , putting real history documentary that matter. Atilla the Hun gets very little attention than it should. From the east to the northern Sea he united the various tribes of Europe that were militaristic and fighting with Rome, Hunnic invasions also let the eastern militaristic discipline adopted by Goths, Alans and Norse Confederacy for example.
The Origin of the Huns Turco-Mongol Altaic Tribe. Attila Grand son of the Modu Chanu(Mete Yabgu)
Turco-Mongolo-Hungariano-Bulgarian
@@sbernesy3977 And one Turco-Mongolo-Hungariano-Bulgariano-Sino-Japano-Englando-Franko-Braziliano-Egypto-Americano Espresso for me please
There are 6 centuries between Mete Khan and Attila. Both great leaders and scourge of empires.
@@vonclausewitz8558 actualy hes name is Mao-tun(probably Baghadur which mean courage/soldier/hero) we translated hes name Chinese sound and call him Mete.
Sertan Kay evet biliyorum :) ama son of Modu Khan demiş, değil.
Edit: grandi görmemişim o zaman problem yok, haklıdır :)
love this video, always make me come to watch again anyway this apocalyptic proportions
always come back every 700 years so i hope i could join and be part of history.
The european Huns used germanic straight swords. The best infantry was the gepids in Attila's army. And the gepids were a german tribe, and manufactured great straight swords. The Sabre is better against less armored enemies, but the straight swords are better against better armored enemies like the romans.
There was no sabre before Avar age. First Turkic swords were straight too.
Hayır düz değil süvari kılıcı kullanıyorlardı
I'm a recent subscriber, but am a poverty-stricken student so haven't yet felt able to help out on patreon. That said, I'd be immensely grateful if you'd consider producing a video on the Anarchy period in England? It's a fascinating period, with a couple of interesting battles (the Battle of the Standard, and the Battle of Lincoln in particular). I feel it's very little-known, and something that'd really benefit from the Kings and Generals treatment.
Now this sounds interesting, first time I'm hearing about it
@Grant Willis ha, you can be poverty-stricken and attend a UK university, believe me.
@Grant Willis oh no, not really, it's more down to the fairly broken student loan/bursary systems we have here. Woe betide if you if your parents fall into the wrong salary band. Not low enough for grants, not high enough to be able to independently support you. Brexit's not an issue at all.
I wish you did a video like this on Slavs from their earliest point in history.
The sword cult was foundational to gothic culture from the Baltic. Tyrfingr is the old Norse name for “a certain sword” that became a mouth prop for the bound Fenrir wolf. This myth relates the process of taking the warrior spirit to become socially beneficial alchemists like Chinese myths of the Stone Monkey King trapped in Buddha’s Palm in a mountain called “5 Element Mountain.” Snorri said that Tyrfingr was a Kenning for any sword, and it means “Heaven’s Finger.” Jews use the finger wand of God to turn the pages of the Torah. Tyrfingr was the Gothic Excalibur, as the stone is the spine down which the wolf spit, called “hope,” drips. It’s the cerebral-spinal fluid dripping down the spinal cord from the brain.
The Hun empire was Turkic, Hungarian historians say this. Many people in Turkey using the name Atilla. Turks consider Atilla one of their ancestors.
yeh but many Hungarians said they were the decedants of the Magyars, and the Magyars also were the Turkish origines
@S SoHeeloe HOW DO YOU KNOW ?! I KNOW A LOT OF HISTORY!
@Poop Poop MONGOL HİSTORY START İN 1200
NEVER MONGOL!
THİS İS TURK!
I love the Total War: Attila music in the background
D: turk power!
His name is Edil. Came from Edil river. And I am a Kerei(Khereit) Kazakh from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
No his name is not edil.
@@mustafaziyaakgul3331 It's true Attila's name came from Volga River's Turkish
pronunciation.
@@Umtb2 no it's not true. Check bulgar rulers lineage. İt's avitohol not Atilla.
@@mustafaziyaakgul3331 I will check it. Thank you
@@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz For those hater comment, I want to say: Congratulations! Your brain successfully fucked by Jews, and a joker called Cohen! LOL..
Thank you and I like this video.
Bulgars have amazing ancestry, sadly politics nowadays fail to show it and spread it. Thankfully there's people like you! Love from Bulgaria. And love to all the ancestors of the steppe people. We can only be proud!
Huns were east asians
@@NubiansNapata I would refer you to the Nominalia of the Bulgarian khan's. I am well aware Bulgarians now are not what huns are since we are so mixed now we were even then that's precisely the meaning of the word bulgar. they spoke Mixed. It refers to the mixture of tribes in the steppe but we also had thracians and slavs in Bulgaria, not to mention it's 2021 so nobody is 100% anything. Look at Hungary for instance they are steppe people too.
@@yanistefanov7831 huns made a group out of kipchak-oghuz turks and old bulgarians were turks too but today bulgariaans are more slavic
@@yanistefanov7831 proto bulgarians are turkic
@@Toktobay987 The Huns and Bulgars spoke closely related languages different from others “barbarian” languages. The relations between the language of Bulgars and Huns were studied by Harvard professor Pritsak in his notable work "The Hunnic Language of the Attila Clan" (1982).He termed the language of Bulgars as Hunno-Bulgarian. Pritsak analyzed the 33 survived Hunnic personal names and concluded that the language of the Bulgars was Hunnic language
*This has been your best video yet.* 👑
Thanks!
Sensational stuff as usual from you guys. I knew of the legend with the stag but I never heard of the one with the cow :)
Nothing like Altai throat singing! Thank you!
Starts with a two-minute commercial. Rolling my eyes.
satanic Horns.
Very interesting , Learned allot and the art was beautiful !
The geography is awful. The map is completely missing Carpathian Mountains.
Greetings from Turkey Kings and Generals 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 great video as usual!
@@HeyZenci Kısaca hunların orta asya 'dan geldiğini belirtmiş . Türkler ve Moğollar ile bağlantısını ortaya koymuş her ne kadar direkt olarak bahsetmiş olmasa da .
@@alpsvn2926 sen onu mu anladın videodan
@@tarikyildirim6120 arkadaşın merak ettiği sorunun Hunlar ve Türkler arasında bir bağlantı kurulmuş mudur sorusu olduğu tahmininde bulunarak kısaca cevapladım ;) . Yoksa geniş bir özete pek çok kişi gibi zamanım yok . Meselemiz birbirimizin açıklarını aramak olmadığında daha ileri seviye de olacağımıza inanıyorum iyi akşamlar .
@王中孚 lmao
We came to west, leave your girls free, don't worry.
The illustrations of this video are amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Please make a video on the invasion of Temur in India. Thanks for a good explanation and true history!