Hamadani, Husayni Isfahani, Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur) with the Modu biography in the Chinese sources (feud between the father and son and murder of the former, the direction and sequence of conquests, etc.), which was first noticed by Hyacinth (Compilation of reports, pp. 56–57). Another suggestion connects it with the name of the Magyar royal tribe of the Hungarians and with their distant relatives the Mators, now extinct. Modu has been linked with the Dulo clan known from the Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans and this, in the form *Duh-klah Tuqi King, with the Hungarian Gyula clan. It has been suggested that his name, as Bixtun or Beztur, appears in the genealogy as the ancestor of Attila, in the Chronica Hungarorum of Johannes de Thurocz. Legacy Modu Chanyu is also known as Mete Khan (particularly, Mete Han in Turkish) across a number of Turkic languages. The Turkish Land Forces claims the beginning of his reign in 209 BCE as its symbolic founding date. Sculptures See also Han–Xiongnu War Jin Midi Oghuz Khagan Ban Chao Shan Yu from 1998 Disney's film Mulan Notes References Citations Sources External links The Xiongnu – China Knowledge site Essay on the Xiongnu Chanyus 230s BC births 174 BC deaths 2nd-century BC rulers in Asia 3rd-century BC rulers in Asia Patricides Leaders who took power by coup