03-29-2006, 12:25 PM
Quote:What is the difference between "Black Huns" and "White Huns"? 8)Forgive my poor English-but I do not understand "Black Huns".
I have never heard of them.
The "White Huns" are possibly the ones called Chionitae - from the Greek Chioni=snow. Some people speculate that their descentants are possibly modern Tratars but I do not know anything on that.
Prokopios ah his contemporaries use the derogatry description "evil yellow animals" and take the effort to describe "White Huns" as different. That makes people think that the Huns were mostly mongolids.
The only nomadic Asian people I know usin g black in their descrpition was the Turcomanic Hord of "Black Sheep", because of their distinctive black sheepskin headgear.
Hope I helped.
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HOPLITE14GR (aka Stefanos)
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