Tuldila (458), was a

Hun The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th century AD. According to European tradition, they were first reported living east of the Volga River, in an area that was part ...

leader in

Majorian Majorian ( la, Iulius Valerius Maiorianus; died 7 August 461) was the western Roman emperor from 457 to 461. A prominent general of the Roman army, Majorian deposed Emperor Avitus in 457 and succeeded him. Majorian was the last emperor to make ...

's army.

History

In early 458, Western Roman Emperor Majorian gathered a vast army formed by barbarian tribes, including ''Chunus'', for the campaign against the

Vandals The Vandals were a Germanic peoples, Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland. They established Vandal Kingdom, Vandal kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula, Mediterranean islands, and North Africa in the fifth century. The ...

. Sidonius Apollinaris recounts: This account refers to the loss of Ellac and other chieftains, the Battle of Nedao was fought only few years before, and they withdrawn from the Danube, now occupied by former Germanic subjects. Those Huns were situated in

Moesia Superior Moesia (; Latin: ''Moesia''; el, Μοισία, Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River, which included most of the territory of modern eastern Serbia, Kosovo, north-eastern Alban ...

and Dacia Ripensis.

Etymology

Tuldila's, like the name of Tulan Qaghan (''Τουλδίχ''; 580s) of the

Göktürks The Göktürks, Celestial Turks or Blue Turks ( otk, 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣, Türük Bodun; ; ) were a nomadic confederation of Turkic peoples in medieval Inner Asia. The Göktürks, under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d. 552) and ...

, derives from Turkic *''tuld'' (composed of ''uld'' or ''ult'', see Uldin), and diminutive suffix ''in/ach'' (''+q'', ''+k'') ie. Germanic diminutive suffix ''-ila''.

References

;Sources * {{Huns Hun military leaders Western Roman people of Hunnic descent 5th-century monarchs in Europe