id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4027 Attila - Wikipedia .html text/html 8608 921 75 His unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by an invasion of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, the success of which emboldened Attila to invade the West.[3] He also attempted to conquer Roman Gaul (modern France), crossing the Rhine in 451 and marching as far as Aurelianum (Orléans) before being stopped in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains. "little wolf".[10]:386[11]:29[12]:46 The Gothic etymology was first proposed by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early 19th century.[13]:211 Maenchen-Helfen notes that this derivation of the name "offers neither phonetic nor semantic difficulties",[10]:386 and Gerhard Doerfer notes that the name is simply correct Gothic.[11]:29 Alexander Savelyev and Choongwon Jeong (2020) similarly state that Attila's name "must have been Gothic in origin."[14] The name has sometimes been interpreted as a Germanization of a name of Hunnic origin.[11]:29–32 The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, AD 430–476 (Paperback). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4027.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4027.txt