Battle of the Utus

The Battle of the Utus was held in the year 447 between the Oströmern and the Huns under Attila's leadership on the banks of the river today's Wit in present-day Bulgaria. It was the last great battle between the two rivals.

The details of Atillas campaign that led to the Battle of the Utus, and the following events are unclear. About the battle report several sources ( Jordanes ' Romana, the chronicle of Marcellinus Comes and the Paschal Chronicle ). However, the non-unique source location do not allow an accurate reconstruction of the course of events.

Battle

For the first time 443 after the Eastern Roman Empire had ceased to pay tribute to the Huns sacked Attila's armies the Byzantine Balkan provinces, but times 447 militiae A strong Roman army under Arnegisclus, the magister utriusque, " Captains of both troops " (infantry and cavalry) of Thrace, marched from their roost in Marcianopolis westward and hit the river Utus the Hun army. Arnegisclus was one of the commanders who had already defeated Attila in the campaign of 443.

The Roman army multipart armed force and included the armies of Illyricum, Thrace, and the Hoftruppen of the emperor. The Romans have been defeated, but it seems that the losses on both sides have been high. Arnegisclus horse was killed, he fought on foot until he was killed.

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Marcianopolis fell in direct succession to the Huns, who destroyed it; the city was then abandoned until Emperor Justinian restored hundred years later. Konstantin Opel, the capital of the Eastern Empire, now came under direct pressure of the Huns, because its walls were heavily damaged by an earthquake in the year 447 and its population suffered under a Pestausbruch. However, the praetorian prefect of the East Constantine could restore the walls in just two months, since he included the entire working population of the city as well as the circus parties in the work. This hasty work and the piece laying a unit of the Isaurian in the city, and finally the high losses, which the Romans had inflicted the Huns on Utus, Attila led a siege of Constantinople did not try.

Instead, Attila marched south and devastated the now defenseless Balkan provinces (ie, Illyricum, Thrace, Moesia, Scythia Minor and the Roman Dacia ) until he turned at Thermopylae. Callinicus of Rufinianae wrote in his life of Saint Hypatius, who lived at that time in Thrace: more than a hundred cities were captured, Konstantin Opel was in danger and almost all the inhabitants fled the city, although this is probably overkill. Peace was restored only by a contract between Atilla and the Eastern Roman Empire in 448. In this contract, Theodosius II committed to a high annual tribute to Attila. In addition, a no man's land in the Roman territory was actually created; there is a five -day trip extended south of the Danube and functioned as a buffer zone.

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