Addac or Attaces (died 418) was king of the western
Alans in
Hispania (the
Iberian Peninsula, modern
Spain and
Portugal). In 409, the Alans settled in the provinces of
Lusitania
Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and
a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ...
and
Carthaginiensis: ''Alani Lusitaniam et Carthaginiensem provincias, et Wandali cognomine Silingi Baeticam sortiuntur''. Some doubt whether the Alans held all or just parts of Carthaginiensis.
[Bury, 203 and n2.]
He was the successor of
Respendial, who led the Alans, together with the
Vandals and
Suevi
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, on an invasion of the
Western Roman Empire beginning in 406. In 418 Attaces was defeated and killed in battle with the
Visigothic king
Wallia, who had attacked the invading tribes on behalf of the emperor
Honorius, in "
Tartessian" lands, probably near
Gibraltar
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. The remainder of the western Alans in Iberia appealed to the Vandal king
Gunderic to accept the Alan crown. Later Vandal kings in North Africa styled themselves ''rex Wandalorum et Alanorum'' (King of the Vandals and Alans).
See also
*
Cindazunda
References
*
Bury, J. B. ''History of the Later Roman Empire''. Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1923.
*
Hydatius. ''Continuatio chronicorum Hieronymianorum''.
Notes
Alanic rulers
Military personnel killed in action
418 deaths
5th-century monarchs in Europe
Year of birth unknown
5th-century Iranian people
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