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10 unusual facts about Attila


Anniviers

1) after the heavy defeat of Attila 451 in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, parts of his followers retreated to the valley.

Derelys Perdue

She first received attention in Hollywood during a stage production entitled Attila and the Huns, with Ramón Novarro playing Attila and Perdue playing one of the Huns.

Guido Cervo

Also set in the Roman Empire age are Il centurione di Augusto, Il segno di Attila, Le mura di Adrianopoli and L'aquila sul Nilo.

Legend of Saint Ursula

On her way back home, at Cologne, she was martyred by Attila, King of the Huns, together with her following of 10,000 virgins, after she had refused to become his wife.

Nicola Luisotti

In the 2010-11 season, Luisotti led a new production of Attila by Gabriele Lavia at La Scala, a co-production with San Francisco Opera that was mounted there in 2012.

Patrimonium Sancti Petri

In Rome on the other hand, the pope appears with ever-increasing frequency as the advocate of the needy population; thus Pope Leo I intercedes with Attila the Hun king and Geiserich the Vandal king, and Pope Gelasius I with Theodoric the Ostrogothic king.

Salting the earth

Later accounts of other saltings in the destructions of medieval Italian cities are now rejected as unhistorical: Padua by Attila (452)--perhaps in a parallel between Attila and the ancient Assyrians; Milan by Frederick Barbarossa (1162); and Semifonte by the Florentines (1202).

Salvian

40, and after the Vandal conquest of Carthage in the same year (vi. 12), but before Attila's invasion (451), as Salvian speaks of the Huns, not as enemies of the empire, but as serving in the Roman armies (vii. 9).

Scourge

Semi-literal usages such as "the scourge of God" for Attila the Hun (i.e. "God's whip to punish the nations with") led to metaphoric uses to mean a severe affliction, e.g. "the scourge of drug abuse".

Va, pensiero

Other recent research has discussed several of Verdi's works from the 1840s (including Giovanna d'Arco and Attila) emphasising their ostensible political meaning.


Attila Bátky

Attila Bátky (born January 23, 1973 in Dunajská Streda, Trnava) is an amateur Slovak Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category.

Attila József

A Transparent Lion: selected poems of Attila József; translated by Michael Castro and Gabor G. Gyukics, Los Angeles, CA: Green Integer 149, 2006 ISBN 1-933382-50-3

Attila Pacsay

At age 14, he was accepted in the composition class of László Draskóczy and Attila Reményi at the János Richter Conservatory in the city of Győr.

Attila Szekrényessy

Attila Szekrényessy (born 20 January 1913 in Budapest, Hungary; died February 1995 in Gyöngyös) was a Hungarian pair skater who competed with his sister Piroska Szekrényessy.

Attilas '74

Attila '74: The Rape of Cyprus is a 1974 documentary film by Michael Cacoyannis about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

Boiko Zvetanov

He began his career with major roles in Verdi operas such as the Duke in Rigoletto, Foresto in Attila and Radames in Aida, also Lindoro in Rossini's Italiana in Algeri, Fernando in Donizetti's La Favorita and Pollione in Bellini's Norma.

De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

This lineup—Euronymous, Hellhammer, Attila and Vikernes—recorded the album during late 1992 and early 1993 at the Grieg Hall in Bergen.

Ferenc Karinthy

He won a number of awards for his own writing including the Baumgarten Prize, the József Attila Prize and the Kossuth Prize.

Hanns Hörbiger

Two of Hörbiger's sons, Paul and Attila, were matineé idols in the interwar years, and Paul Hoerbiger's daughter Mavie Hörbiger also went on to become a celebrated actress.

I Am Nemesis

Caliban promoted the album through their "Get Infected" Tour 2012 with support of Winds Of Plague, We Butter The Bread With Butter, Eyes Set To Kill and Attila which started off on February 2 in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Onogurs

Patria Onoguria, referred to as such by Agathius, Priscus Rhetor, Zacharias Rhetor, and Pseudo-Zecharias Rhetor, was a Hunno-Bulgar state around the Sea of Azov granted by Byzantium to the Onogurs in the 460s AD when, led by Attila's sons Dengizich and Ernakh, they overran Karadach's Akatziroi already settled in the region within the larger context of the Great Migrations and the Turkic expansion.

Plinta

After Rugila died, Plinta and Epigenes were sent to his successor, Attila, with whom they concluded the Peace of Horreum Margi.

Sack of Aquileia

This sack appears as part of the final scenario in the Attila the Hun campaign in the Microsoft computer game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors.

Sangiban

According to Jordanes, Sangiban had promised Attila before the Battle of Châlons to open the city gates and deliver Aurelianum to the Huns.

Serpentor

He was conceived as the perfect warrior, extracted from the unearthed remains of some of the greatest generals of all time--Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Attila the Hun, Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Grigori Rasputin, Montezuma, Geronimo and Egyptian general Xanuth Amon-Toth.

These long-dead genetic blueprints were combined to produce a clone with the genius of Napoleon, the ruthlessness of Julius Caesar, the daring of Hannibal, and the shrewdness of Attila the Hun.

Severinus of Noricum

Severinus also supposedly prophesied the destruction of Astura, Austria by the Huns under Attila.

Sophie Löwe

Her most prominent performances were as the title character in Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Padilla (Milan, 1841), as Elvira in Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani (Venice, 1844), and as Odabella in Verdi's Attila (Venice, 1846).

The Debbie Reynolds Show

Monty Python's Flying Circus spoofed the series in a sketch primarily written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman entitled "The Attila the Hun Show".

Uokil

The other dynastic clans of the Bulgarians were the Dulo clan of Attila, and Ermi clan of Kubrat (Kurbat) maternal uncle Organa, the Gostun (custodian) of the Nominalia.

Upper Trajan's Wall

Others, such as the historian Peter Heather, affirm it was built by the local Germanic tribes, mainly as a defense against raiders from Central Asia (Attila's Huns).

Valentina Bartolomasi

Other roles in her stage repertoire included Abigaille in Nabucco, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Elsa in Lohengrin, Odabella in Attila, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, and the title role in Isabeau among others.

Walter Frank

Attila and Genghis Khan now ride exultingly next to Stalin’s armies over the Eastern plains, they appear as the Horsemen of the Apocalypse in fiery skies during the nights of bombing.

Wels

During the early migration period (3rd, 4th and 5th century), the area around Ovilava was often invaded by the Alamanni, Vandals and other Germanic tribes as well as by Attila's army.

Željko Lučić

Some of the Verdi roles which he has sung in Frankfurt are Amonasro in Aida, the Count di Luna in Il trovatore, The Duke of Nottinghamin Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, Ezio in Attila, Germont, Guy de Montfort in Les vêpres siciliennes, and Renato in Un ballo in maschera.