Kursich
Kursich (fl. 395) was a Hun general and royal family member. He led an Hunnish army in the Hunnic invasion of Persia in 395 AD.
The Huns started to seriously threaten the Romans in 395, crossing over the Caucasus mountains in the summer of that year. The following winter, another Hunnic force pillaged Thrace and threatened Dalmatia.[1] The Huns then invaded Armenia, Persia and the Asian Roman provinces. Kursich and another commander, Basich, led two armies down the Euphrates, up to threatening the Persian capital of Ctesiphon. One army was defeated by the Persians, while the other successfully retreated by Derbent Pass.[2]
Priscus recorded that Kursich later came to Rome to make an alliance.[2] Maenchen-Helfen suggested that he and Basich came to Rome in 404 or 407, as mercenaries.[3]
His name is of Turkic origin.[4][5]
References
- ^ Thompson, E. A. (1996). Heather, Peter (ed.). The Huns. Blackwell Publishers. pp. 30–31. ISBN 978-0-631-15899-8.
- ^ a b Sinor, Denis (1990). "The Hun Period". The Cambridge history of early Inner Asia (1. publ. ed.). Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. pp. 177, 183–184, 203. ISBN 9780521243049.
- ^ Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (1973). The World of the Huns: Studies in Their History and Culture (Edited by Max Knight). University of California Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-520-01596-8.
- ^ Kim, Hyun Jin (2015). The Huns. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781317340904. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- ^ Compte-rendu de la ... Session Volume 3. Le Congrès. 1873. p. 286. Retrieved 25 October 2022.