The appearance of the Hunos alters the European panorama
The Hunos were a town originally from Central Asia, which arises around the fourth century, were mainly grouped into small villages or villages of a nomadic nature, were engaged in livestock and lived in small temporary huts. They stood out in the art of war, they were very right riders, fast and determined, they did not have a fixed tactic which made them unpredictable in combat.
In the year 370, a set of Euroasy tribes mostly formed by Hunos, move from the Asian steppes in southern Russia to the west, arriving in Europe, managing to press and displace several barbarian peoples there installed between them the ostrogods, Tanarico IIWith the Visigoths he tried to stop them on the Dniester River, but they were defeated.
At that time, the ostrogodo kingdom had experienced a remarkable expansion in recent years. Under the regency of the emenric or brotherhood king, the ostrogods had become a great territorial and military force that dominated extensive territories from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea. In truth, this expansion was progressive weakening to the ostrogodo kingdom, because they did not mix with the conquered peoples, but dispersed forming an oligarchy that dominated a slave peasantry without any military experience. They submitted to several Slavic towns and also the balts, who were destined to be slaves. In addition, ostrogods used the word ‘Slavo’ with the sense of prisoner or slave. Ostrogoths also conquered some villages of Germanic origin, such as the Genid and Hérulos.
Having submitted the Alanos, they now fought with the Hunos and headed against the Ostrogodo people, which was governed by the brotherhood king. Thanks to his government and management, the power of the ostrogods had extended so much that he covered a wide extension of territory between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, managing to submit to its large number of villages both Slavs and Germans. According to some sources, it is said that some of these peoples submitted by the Ostrogoths willingly accepted invasion as an opportunity to get rid of the brotherhood yoke. It is believed that the brotherhood king when giving the contest for loss committed suicide fearing the reprisals of the Hunos.
Despite this action, according to Amiano Marcelino, Hermanerico was a great warrior feared and respected by his enemies, which managed.
After the death of the king, the ostrogods were totally unable to deal with the Hunos, so they chose to give part of their sovereignty and were linked to the Huns by Vasalaje. However, some small groups of Alanos, vandals and ostrogods fled to southern Europe.
The Battle of Adrianopolis
After having been defeated by the Hunos, those ostrogods who had not subjected to the yoke of their adversaries joined together with other peoples who wanted to flee from the Asian threat and went to the south, to the Roman borders. Being these federated peoples of the Romans, the logical thing is that they had received a correct welcome, however, Emperor Valente did not trust the Goths, because decades ago they had looted the same territories in which they now wanted to be welcomed.
The mismanagement with which the Romans had organized the reception of those peoples caused that quickly, the lack of order added with hunger caused an uprising by ostrogods and other Gothic peoples.
In the year 378 the lifting by the Goths triggered in a pitched battle near Adrianopolis, which was a resounding failure for the Roman Empire, with the death of Valente and some of its main generals on the battlefield.
The Victoria Goda was a radical change in the relationships between both sides, becoming much more balanced, which ended up taking its toll in Roman society.
The death of Atila and the resurgence of ostrogods
At the death of Atila in 453, the Hunal Empire was gradually collapsed from within by the confrontation between the children of ESE, since each one wanted a similar portion and power of everything that his father had achieved himthroughout his life as king.
When this internal division was extended, which was produced by the children of Attila spread rapidly and served a large part of the peoples that had been subjected and forced to fight inside the Huno army to ally between them to revolt and thus be able to returnTo obtain your freedom. The ostrogods formed alliances and pacts with peoples that were in the same situation, such as roots, winged, genuids, Hérulos and other peoples, all of them headed by Adarico.
Then they joined their strength and decided. In this battle the successor and the favorite son of Atila died, Ellac. After this defeat the huns dispersed, fled, or tried to integrate with different peoples, some even worked as mercenaries. The domain they had managed to establish the huns was definitely lost in 455 thus disintegrating such sovereignty in a short term of time.
Ostrogoths after defeating the Huns were made with Panonia, which was a strategic place for both the East and West. The Marciano emperor recognized them as federated and offered them the delivery of 100 pounds of gold per year as payment for their services. For his part, Marciano demanded the sonodoric son of Teodomiro and successor of the Ostrogoths as a friendly hostage.
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