gun on the drought-stricken steppe north of China, now took them around 1,700 kilometers from the Caucasus to the Great Hungarian Plain. They moved in great numbers and, as before, sent other tribal groups scattering before them.*
When the Huns arrived north of the Black Sea in the 370s, they had displaced the Goths. Now, as they swept into the Great Hungarian Plain, they disrupted other barbarian groups: Alans, Vandals, a Germanic people known as the Suevi and another called the Burgundians, whom Roman writers particularly despised for their chubbiness and rank habit of greasing their hair with sour butter. There had been contact between some or all of these groups and individual Huns du
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