Treaty of Margus

The Treaty of Margus was signed in the year 443 A.D. by Attila, king of the Huns, and the Roman Empire. This treaty was an updated version of a previous treaty between the Huns and the Romans which was set in 435 A.D. The reason for the revision was due to the Romans not keeping their end of the agreement. The Huns claim that the Romans had not sent back fugitives who had fled to their country and tampered with the burial sites of a few royal Hun families. The Romans did not want the Huns to attack and conquer more land, so they decided to compromise with the Huns and sign the Treaty of Margus. It was called the Treaty of Margus because the Huns believed that a bishop of Margus was the person who arranged for the royal graves to be tampered with. The treaty stated that the Romans had to pay 6,000 Roman pounds per year to the Huns. Also, the money they had to pay the Huns to get a Roman prisoner back was raised to 12 solidi.

References

* cite journal|title=The Treaty with the Huns of 443|journal=The American Journal of Philology
date=1976|publisher=JSTOR
issn=00029475

* cite book|title=Western Civilization:A brief history
location=Australia
edition=3rd Edition
date=2005
author= Spielvogel, Jackson J.
publisher=Thomson & Wadsworth

External links

*cite web|accessdate=2007-05-06
url=http://www.allempires.com/article/index.php?q=huns
title=The Huns
publisher=All Empires