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Attila war von 434 bzw. 444/45 bis zu seinem Tod „König“ des Kriegerverbandes der Hunnen. Zentrum seines Machtbereichs war das Gebiet des heutigen Ungarns, wo die Hunnen im 5. Jahrhundert ein kurzlebiges Reich errichteten, das unter Attila die größte Machtentfaltung erlebte, aber bereits kurz nach seinem Tod wieder zusammenbrach.

Attila unternahm wiederholt Kriegszüge, die oft mit großer Härte durchgeführt wurden und sich zunächst gegen Ostrom, 451/52 jedoch vor allem gegen Westrom richteten. Daneben unterhielt er zu beiden Reichsteilen diplomatische Kontakte, die vor allem darauf abzielten, möglichst hohe Tributzahlungen der Römer durchzusetzen, die Attila benötigte, um sein nur locker aufgebautes Vielvölkerreich zusammenzuhalten. Die Römer wiederum waren an möglichst stabilen Verhältnissen im angrenzenden Barbaricum interessiert, um die Grenzen zu sichern. Für die römisch-hunnischen Kontakte dieser Zeit steht mit dem fragmentarisch erhaltenen Geschichtswerk des Priskos eine wichtige Quelle zur Verfügung.

Als legendäre Figur König Etzel lebte Attila in zahlreichen mittelalterlichen Werken weiter, so im Nibelungenlied und der Dietrichepik.



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“Superficial purposes have superficial consequences.”

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“The smart leader never asks the question he doesn't want to hear the answer!”

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“If you want your enemy to trust you in the future, keep the promises you made during bargaining.”

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“For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?”

As quoted by Edward Gibbon (1781), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. III, chapter 34

“Here you stand, after conquering mighty nations and subduing the world. I therefore think it foolish for me to goad you with words, as though you were men who had not been proved in action. Let a new leader or an untried army resort to that. It is not right for me to say anything common, nor ought you to listen. For what is war but your usual custom? Or what is sweeter for a brave man than to seek revenge with his own hand? It is a right of nature to glut the soul with vengeance. Let us then attack the foe eagerly; for they are ever the bolder who make the attack. Despise this union of discordant races! To defend oneself by alliance is proof of cowardice. See, even before our attack they are smitten with terror. They seek the heights, they seize the hills and, repenting too late, clamor for protection against battle in the open fields. You know how slight a matter the Roman attack is. While they are still gathering in order and forming in one line with locked shields, they are checked, I will not say by the first wound, but even by the dust of battle. Then on to the fray with stout hearts, as is your wont. Despise their battle line. Attack the Alani, smite the Visigoths! Seek swift victory in that spot where the battle rages. For when the sinews are cut the limbs soon relax, nor can a body stand when you have taken away the bones. Let your courage rise and your own fury burst forth! Now show your cunning, Huns, now your deeds of arms! Let the wounded exact in return the death of his foe; let the unwounded revel in slaughter of the enemy. No spear shall harm those who are sure to live; and those who are sure to die Fate overtakes even in peace. And finally, why should Fortune have made the Huns victorious over so many nations, unless it were to prepare them for the joy of this conflict. Who was it revealed to our sires the path through the Maeotian swamp, for so many ages a closed secret? Who, moreover, made armed men yield to you, when you were as yet unarmed? Even a mass of federated nations could not endure the sight of the Huns. I am not deceived in the issue;--here is the field so many victories have promised us. I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.”

As quoted by Jordanes, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths http://people.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html#attila, translated by Charles C. Mierow

“A purposeless Hun never knows when he has achieved his goal.”

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“Leaders should steer the Huns, never letting them remain purposeless.”

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“Huns should only enter wars in which they can win.”

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“A leader without a competitive spirit is weak and easily gives up in the face of the slightest problem.”

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“Don't underestimate the power of your enemy, no matter how big or small, one day it could be to your detriment.”

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“Never appoint an arbitrator; it is the third person determining your destiny. Such a choice would benefit the weak”

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“You shouldn't want to be the head.”

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“Great commanders never take themselves too seriously.”

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“Act naturally, not be caught in the false pride that your position brings to you.”

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“Fear is effective as much as magic.”

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