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Charaton (Olympiodorus of Thebes: ''Χαράτων'') was one of the first kings of the Huns. In end of 412 or beginning of 413, Charaton received the Byzantine ambassador Olympiodorus sent by Honorius. Olympiodorus travelled to Charaton’s kingdom by sea, but does not record whether the sea in question was the Black or Adriatic. As the ''History'' deals exclusively with the Western Roman Empire, it was probably Adriatic, and visited them somewhere in Pannonian Basin. Olympiodorus recounts;
Although the text suggests certain ''Donatus'' (''Δονάτ-'', Turkic ''yonat'', "horse") was previous Hunnic ruler, some scholars like Franz Altheim and Otto Maenchen-Helfen reject this assumption. ==Etymology== According to Maenchen-Helfen it is of undertermined origin, and may have ended in ''-tom'', ''-ton'', ''-to'', ''-ta'', and ''-t''. Omeljan Pritsak derived root ''Chara-'' from Altaic ''xara'' - ''qara'', with the meaning of "black" and "great; northern". The second part ''-ton'' is Saka loanword into Turkic, ''thauna'' > '' *taun'' > ''tōn'', "garment, clothing". In Ottoman Turkish ''don'' means "coat of a horse" and there's a concept of "horse with a black coat". Pritsak concluded as the previous ruler was called ''Donatus'' (horse), in the name of ''Qara-Ton'' (black clad; with black coat) was intentional cryptic use for horse, possibly related to Hunnic totemism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charaton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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