Balamir Emren
* For the late 4th-century Hun leader, see Balamber a.k.a. Balamur, Balamir. * For the 20th-century Turkish wrestling olympian, see Halit Balamir Halit Balamir (1922 – 2 March 2009) was a Turkish sport wrestler. He was born in Gümüşhane He won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling, flyweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London London is the capital and larg ...

Balamber
Balamber (also known as Balamir, Balamur and many other variants) was ostensibly a chieftain of the Huns, mentioned by Jordanes in his ''Getica'' ( 550 AD). Jordanes simply called him "king of the Huns" () and writes the story of Balamber crushing the tribes of the Ostrogoths in the 370s; somewhere between 370 and more probably 376 AD. A number of historians argue that Balamber may have never existed, and was a confusion of other rulers or even a fabrication. Etymology The name is recorded in three variants by Jordanes, and an additional two by copyists: ''Balaber'', ''Balamber'', ''Balamur'', ''Balambyr'', ''Balamir''. ''Balaber'' with omission of ''-m-'' may be a corruption of ''Balamber''. ''Balamir'' has the Gothic onomastic suffix ''-mir/-mer''. Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen argued that the original form of the name was ''Balimber'' and that its meaning is unknown. Omeljan Pritsak considered ''Balamur'' as the only original Hunnic form of the name. He derived it from a word aki ...
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