Map of the years 466–469: the Huns after the Nedao on the lower Danube, Dengizich's march against Bassiana, Ernak in two proposed places at the mouth of the Tisza and in the Dobruja, Emnetzur and Ultzindur on the Danube, and the death of Dengizich in 469
466–469: Dengizich marches against Bassiana. Ernak stands in two proposed places, at the mouth of the Tisza and in the Dobruja. Emnetzur and Ultzindur hold towns on the Danube. Dengizich falls in 469, and his head is shown in Constantinople. Modern map. The place of his death is not recorded.
Plate XV in the Atlas → © Emre-E Yavuz 2026

Who ruled

And beyond the steppe

  • China Northern Wei Emperor Xianwen 465–471
  • Iran Sasanian Peroz I 459–484
  • Korea Goguryeo Jangsu 413–491
  • Byzantium Leonid Leo I 457–474

Western steppe

  • Culture · Sogdian colonists found the first towns of Semirech'e, Suyab and Navaket among them, as estates of nobles (450–600)

    Suyab · Sogdians

Tarim and Sogdiana

  • Culture · Towns founded and walls built in Sogdiana under the Kidarites: Panjikent, Paikent, Bukhara; the citadel of Samarkand raised (440–470)

    Sogdiana · Samarkand · Paikent · Bukhara

Byzantium

  • The Hun officer Chelchal turns the blockaded Goths against the Huns among them; the survivors break through the Roman lines

    Chelchal · Anagastes · Goths