In 539 there was a major Hun attack on Greece and Thrace which even crossed the Dardanelles into Asia.
Around the same time the Huns invaded the empire reaching Constantinople before retreating.[1] A second invasion occurred shortly afterwards, bypassing Byzantine resistance and plundering all of Greece except the Peloponnese.[1]
Procopius tells us that the Huns had invaded the Empire frequently before this, but never had the calamity for the Romans been so great. In ad 539 they capture