Gordas

Gordas ({{reign|{{circa}} 503|528}}) was a prince of the Crimean Huns.

He was a ruler of the Huns near the Maeotis,{{cite web |last1=Maenchen-Helfen |first1=Otto J. |title=The World of the Huns. Chapter IX. Language |website=www.kroraina.com |url=http://www.kroraina.com/huns/mh/mh_7.html#Zilgibis |access-date=27 October 2022}} near the Cimmerian Bosporus. In 527 he went to Constantinople, where he received baptism.{{cite book |last1=Maenchen-Helfen |first1=Otto J. |editor1-last=Knight |editor1-first=Max |title=The World of the Huns Studies in Their History and Culture |date=2022 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520302617 |page=288 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gKxhEAAAQBAJ |access-date=27 October 2022}} He then returned to his people and started to destroy their idols. This caused a revolt, led by his brother, in which he was killed. His murderers then fled, fearing Byzantine reprisals.{{cite book |last1=Sinor |first1=Denis |title=The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, Volume 1 |date=1990 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521243049 |page=201 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ST6TRNuWmHsC |access-date=27 October 2022}}