What if no Hunnish expansion in Europe-

raharris1973

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Say the Huns never get established in Europe, at least not west of the Dnepr river, how are Roman-barbarian relations, locations and power balances effected?

I've heard contradictory things, on the one hand that Hunnish pressure pushed the Goths and some other Germans into the empire, yet I've also heard that the Huns held down the Goths to a great extent and the collapse of the Hunnish empire released Gothic-Germanic energies to finally topple the west Roman Empire.
 
Both of those statements are true. The arrival of the Huns pushed Germanic groups across the Rhine and Danube. Once they established themselves, it was obviously in their best interests to keep those groups under their control. Once they fell apart, the free for all erupted led groups like the Goths still in Hunnic territory and the Langobards, Lombards, etc. to start looking elsewhere for settlement.
 
The Huns attacked Persia too. Have them focus more on Persia and it could lead to a Hunnic dynasty there and different barbarian invasions in Europe.
 
There are the Vistula Veneti of the OTL Poland, a minor branch of Balto-Slavic could merge with the Lugii and the Silingi forming a blend of Balto-Slavic and German, in OTL they blended with the Slavs creating the Western Slavs.
 
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