E.A. Thompson
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LOCATION: Netherthong, Holmfirth, United Kingdom
Professor of Classics, University of Nottingham, England, 1948–79. Author of The Early Germans; A History of Attila and the Huns; and others.
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Attila was the king of the Huns from 434 to 453 (ruling jointly with his elder brother Bleda until 445). He was one of the greatest rulers among those groups that the Romans referred to as barbarians. Attila assailed the Roman Empire by invading the southern Balkan provinces and Greece and then…
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