Rua (Hun)

Rua (died 434 , also called Ruga ) was ruler of the Huns from around 425 to 434 . He was an uncle of Bleda and Attila , whose father was Rua's brother Mundzuk .

At first Rua shared power with his brother Oktar , after whose death in 430 Rua took over the majority of the Huns in the Balkans. In 432 the Roman army master Aetius fled to him; with Rua's help, he was able to take over the leadership in the western empire , for which Aëtius ceded Pannonia to the Huns. Rua's sphere of influence was not clearly defined, but he was apparently already aiming at the formation of a large Hunnic empire, in which he purposefully extorted money from Ostrom . The circumstances of his death are not entirely clear; his nephews may have been involved.

literature

• Otto Maenchen-Helfen : The world of the Huns. Origin, history, religion, society, warfare, art, language (“The world of the huns”). VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-928127-43-8 (reprint of the Vienna 1978 edition), p. 59 ff.
• John R. Martindale, John Morris: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . Vol. 2, Cambridge 1980, p. 951; ND Cambridge 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-07233-5 .