Battle of the Tanais River
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| Hunnic Empire | Alans | ||||||
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The Battle of the . The Huns were victorious.
Some historians credit this battle as the beginning of the process of Germanic migration, in which the Huns pushed Germanic tribes into central and northern Europe, resulting in many conflicts between those tribes and the Roman Empire.
It was followed by a joint Hun-Alan invasion of the Gothic kingdom of Ermanaric.
See also
- Germanic migrations
47°3′39″N 39°17′15″E / 47.06083°N 39.28750°E
Sources
- ISBN 1851096671- p. 162
- ISBN 9780679730828- page 184
- Otto Maenchen-Helfen, Otto Helfen «The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture»
Literature
- The 'evil' mind: Pt. 2: Combat motivation and war atrocities by Johan M.G. van der Dennen
- William Rosen - Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe - 2007 - Viking - 367 pages - ISBN 0670038555- page 42
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