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[trevoric]

<DIV>does anyone know whether there is any ancestorial relationship link/lineage btw atilla the hun and Ghengis Khan?</DIV>

[jno]

don't know of any. They both seem to have come from Mongolia, but centuries apart.

[mike b]

Attila the Hun was Jack Palance, who was American, of Eastern European extraction, or Antony Quinn, who was Mexican by birth: Genghis Khan was Omar Sharif, who was Egyptian, or John Wayne, who was... John Wayne. All very confusing.

Seriously though, no one has ever been sure where the Huns originally started off, although attempts have been made to link them with the 'Hsiung-Nu' referred to by the ancient Chinese as raiding their borders. All the steppe nomad peoples were, by definition, very hard to define or pin down, and while the Mongols left a historical tradition (Secret History of...etc) the Huns are only really known through the second-hand observations and legends of their enemies.

[redheap]

according to a recent book on Gengis Khan, one in every 200 people on the planet is related by blood to Gengis Khan due to the prolific empire building of the latter, so possibility of further ancestral descent.

probably on one level the khans of later years would want to make an association back with Attila to give legitimacy to their reigns (as future khans would so with Genghis)

[trevoric]

thankyou all for you contributions. who knows we all now maybe linked by blood of generations ago? My brothers.lol