 Its destruction and Attila's subsequent unimpeded ravaging of the province of Venetia (modern Veneto and Friuli) paved the way for the rise of Venice, which within a few centuries replaced and even surpassed it in importance.This sack appears as part of the final scenario in the Attila the Hun campaign in the Microsoft computer game "".The destruction of Aquileia also figures prominently into the background of several characters in the novel "The Last Legion".