a) Ethnical, by the "migration of the tribes" (mixture of the Europian
inhabitants, the bases of today's situation)b)
Literary, by the wars or friendly relations (legend of Nibelungen, etc.). Attila, named as
Etzel and as being a "good king" is mentioned in the "Nibulungenlied",
one of the masterpieces and the oldest one of the German popular literature.
c) Aesthetics, by the steppe art,
d) Political, by the collapse of the West Roman Empire and
with the beginning of the big invasion movements (due to the Khanate, Attila had founded,
different races and kinds of the Eastern and Middle European tribes, could find a
possibility to live together under the strong and military organization of the dominant
Turk-Hun element.)
e) Social, as the creator of the "knightship"
life for the protection of the peasants and weak, and the national feelings as a reply to
the concept of the Roman Empire.
f) Military, because of the improvement movements of the
European armies according to the Turkish system. The Turkish cultural effects continued
during the whole Middle ages in the west.
Since the 5th century,
the Roman people started to organise their military powers in accordance with the Turkish
army and to adopt the decimal (10) system that was applied within the Hun army. They had
firstly seen the Turks who wore cotton shirts and they imitated them. They also learned
from the Turks to wear jackets and pants and to eat at tables. The Khazar Princess Çiçek
had worn a "kagan hatun dress" (ruler's wife dress) of Turkish type when she
went to the Byzantine palace as a bride. This dress of hers was in fashion and then, it
got widespread in the entire Europe.
There were several
representatives and foreign officials of the countries that were under the domination in
the palace of Attila. Therefore, the Goth and Latin languages were also as common as
Turkish language. However, the Turks had maintained both their language and traditions
without any degeneration. Actually, when the political domination came to an end, only
Turkish was spoken and the people turned towards the Turkish environments.
The Western Huns
were highly developed as goldsmiths and silversmiths. Several ceramic and golden material
were founded in the course of the excavations that were carried out in Hungary where Huns
had led a settled life for a long time. Apart from weapons and horse harnesses, golden
cauldrons, silver belts and spoons, golden crowns, etc. were excavated from he Hun
sepulchres.
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