 The name of the Thuringians appears to be first mentioned in the veterinary treatise of Vegetius, written early in the 5th century.They appear in some lists of the peoples involved in Attila's invasion of Gaul.Walter Pohl has also proposed that they may be the same as the Turcilingi (or Torcolingi) who were one of the tribes near the middle Danube after the collapse of the empire of Attila, to whom they had apparently all been subject.