The Period After Attila and the Collapse of the State            

        After the death of Attila, his three sons from his wife Arıkan: orderly, Ilek, Dengizik, Irnek couldn't replace him. Ilek, who had been an Emperor, had lost his life in the battle of Netao (in Austria) against the rebellious German tribes (454). Dengizik, who had been quite brave but deprived of political intelligence, died with a Byzantine's sword after his resultless disputes to re-establish the unity of the empire (469). Irnek, did not join those battles and after the death of his brothers, he understood the difficulty of ruling in Middle Europe and together with a big part of the war-tired Huns he returned to the west shores of the Black Sea after he received the passing permission from Byzantium.

 

        It is understood that the Huns under the command of Irnek, had played an important role in the constitutions of the states of the Bulgarians and Hungarians, who firstly had been seen in the plains of South Russia and then in the Balkans and Middle Europe. According to the traditions, the Dulo Family, who had been the founder of the Bulgarian-Turk State, and the Arpad dynasty, who brought the Hungarian tribes near the Danube and made them settle there, recognized Irnek as being their ancestor. In the IV. century, according to the legend of the "enchanting deer" with the deer pattern that guided the Huns from Volga to the west, the Huns and the Hungarians (Hunor-Mogor) were shown as brothers. Finally, there is a Commander Caba Legend in which it is stated that the Sekel's, who lived in Hungary, had been the children of the Huns.