Antiquity
Hunnic Empire
- Period
- AD 426 – AD 468
- Duration
- approx. 42 years
- Greatest extent
- around AD 451
- Area (max.)
- approx. 1.9 million km²
Profile
Strength
Mounted nomads with composite bows; Attila extracted tribute from the Eastern Roman Empire.
Famous figures
- Rua
- Bleda
- Attila
Wars & battles won
- Balkan campaigns (441–447)
- Invasions of Gaul and Italy (451–452)
Wars & battles lost
- Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451)
- Battle of Nedao (454)
Languages
- Gothic
- Latin
Hunnic is barely attested
Period and duration
Hunnic Empire — according to the map data from AD 426 to AD 468, roughly 42 years. The dates refer to the time the empire is drawn as its own territory on the world map; historians sometimes date its founding and end differently.
Greatest extent
Hunnic Empire — greatest extent around AD 451: the mapped borders then cover about 1.9 million km², roughly 1.3% of Earth's land area. The area is calculated from the border lines of the map and is therefore an approximation.
Predecessors and successors
States that ruled the same territory directly before and after:
Before (AD 425)
After
No successors in the map data.
Neighbours around AD 451
The largest states in the region at the same time:
- Sasanian Empire
- Eastern Roman Empire
- White Huns
- Western Roman Empire
- Lakhmid Kingdom
- Kingdom of the Suebi
- Vandal Kingdom
- Brythonic Kingdoms
Learn more
- Open the world map in AD 451 — tap the empire for a detailed description
- Hunnic Empire on Wikipedia
- All 371 empires at a glance
Borders and dates: Cliopatria / Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coastlines: Natural Earth. Text: Centaurian.