Battle of the Maureaco Fields

When

21 Jun 451

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

49.00° N, 4.50° E

Description

battle between Romans and Huns in 451

Part of the Hunnic invasion of the Roman province of Gaul

The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, also called the Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, Battle of Châlons, Battle of Troyes or the Battle of Maurica, took place on 20 June 451 AD, pitting a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their vassals, commanded by their king, Attila.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (Châlons): Attila avoids a pitched battle near Orléans, and withdraws to the Catalaunian Plains (Champagne-Ardenne)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Katalon Muharebesi gerçekleşti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht auf den Katalaunischen Feldern werden die Hunnen unter Attila von dem römischen General Aëtius und den Westgoten zurückgeschlagen”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Attila est battu aux champs Catalauniquespar les romains du général Aetius, aidés par les Burgondes, les Francs, les Wisigoths de Théodoric et les Saxons”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Поход Аттилы на Западную Римскую империю”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la Batalla de los Campos Cataláunicos (cerca de la actual ciudad de Troyes) los hunos de Atila (aliados con Genserico) se enfrentan a la coalición…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “نبرد دشت‌های کاتالونیا (چالون): آتیلا از نبرد تن به تن در نزدیکی اورلئان اجتناب می‌کند و به دشت‌های کاتالونیا (شامپاین-آردن) عقب‌نشینی می‌کند”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “沙隆戰役：匈奴王阿提拉在高卢被西羅馬帝國將軍埃提烏斯和西哥特國王狄奧多里克一世的聯軍擊败，隨後轉而侵擾義大利半島。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “カタラウヌムの戦いでアッティラ軍が西ローマ・西ゴート・フランク連合軍に敗れる”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page