{"id":78297,"date":"2020-09-13T20:32:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T18:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=78297"},"modified":"2024-07-01T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:49:33","slug":"reasons-for-huns-invasion-to-west","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/reasons-for-huns-invasion-to-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Huns invasion to west?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/geografia\/krainy-sasiednie-rzymu\/hunowie\/\">Huns<\/a> in ancient sources appear as beings worse than wild <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/animals-and-hunting-in-world-of-romans\/\">animals<\/a> that came from the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/romes-contacts-with-africa-and-far-east\/\">Far East<\/a> and conquer other peoples standing in their way. Lack of information as to their origin and the motives for further aggressive conquests, an interesting explanation was made. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The history of the appearance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/neighboring-lands-around-ancient-rome\/huns\/\">Huns<\/a> on the historical map is repeated by successive writers of the Eastern Roman Empire: Zozimos, Priscus and Jordanes. According to this narrative, the Goths and Huns lived in their neighbourhood, interestingly without knowing it. They were separated by the Kerch Strait, but one day a Hun bull was bitten by a thorn and it got to the other side. The Hun&#8217;s shepherd went before and, surprised by the new lands, told his companions about this fact &#8211; this was to cause the Huns to march west.<\/p>\n<p>Another story tells how Hunnic hunters found their way across the Strait after a runaway cow. The fertile, huge areas encouraged the Huns to invade the Crimean Peninsula and raid Gothic centres.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping fantastic history aside, if the Strait was indeed crossed, it must have happened during a cold winter, when the water was frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38803,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-78297","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/78297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/78297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=78297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}