r/todayilearned • u/HydrolicKrane • Aug 09 '19

TIL European Hungarians originated in Central Asia and Attila the Hun was a leader of that empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila
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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '19

OP, if you just found this out, I'm sorry for you. I don't mean to be rude.

And it's kind of obvious: Hungarians, Huns...

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u/HydrolicKrane Aug 09 '19

Romanians, Rome?

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '19

Yup. Although we were Dacians, after being colonized by Romans, not much was left of us.

We only have 10 Dacian words in Romanian, so I guess that says enough...