Avars in a sentence

By calling the Avars "Turkish slaves" and "pseudo-Avars", Theophylact undermined their political legitimacy.

In fact, Denis Sinor has argued that whoever the "Avars" referred to by Priscus were, they differed from the Avars who appear a century later, during the time of Justinian (who reigned from 527 to 565).

Then, after the Var and Chunni saw the well-omened beginning to their flight, they appropriated the ambassadors' error and named themselves Avars: for among the Scythian nations that of the Avars is said to be the most adept tribe.

All other fights, which under his leadership Slavs fought with the Avars, were victorious," the Frankish chronicler Reich (called Fredegar) wrote about Samo in the oldest extant written report by the Slavs in the Czech Republic.

As a result, the Gepids ceased to exist as an independent people, and were partly absorbed by the Lombards and the Avars.

A sign of this anxiety can also be seen in the decision taken by Alboin to ravage Pannonia, which created a safety zone between the Lombards and the Avars.

By exposing the Avars' close ties to Persia, once again the Ten Tribes of the Dulo entered into alliance with Byzantium.

By the end of the 6th century, Avars organized regular incursions into northern Bulgaria, which were a prelude to the en masse arrival of the Slavs.

Carantania, under pressure of the Avars, lost its independence to Bavaria in 745 and was divided between Bavaria (western part) and the Avar Khaganate (eastern part).

Following Avars, Slavs started to arrive in the region and establish settlements.

Groups who rebelled or fled from the Avar realm could never be called "Avars", but were rather termed "Bulgars".

However, in the 550s AD, the Caucasian Avars pushed further conquering Phanagoria and forcing Sarosios of the Alans to petition Byzantium for land.

In this time, the Avars already began to adopt a more settled lifestyle.

In turn, the Avars had been driven off by people fleeing "man-eating griffins " coming from "the ocean" (Priscus Fr 40).

More South Slavs came in a second wave, and according to some scholars were invited by Emperor Heraclius to drive the Avars from Dalmatia.

Nomadic peoples like the Avars also waited for autumn to begin their military campaigns, as they needed enough forage for their horses.

Pippin and Duke Eric of Friuli continued, however, to assault the Avars' ring-shaped strongholds.

Slavs and Bulgars succeeded because their form of organization proved as stable and as flexible as necessary, while the Pannonian Avars failed in the end because their model could not respond to new conditions.

So, when the Avars had been defeated (for we are returning to the account) some of them made their escape to those who inhabit Taugast.

The agreement proved immensely successful, and relations with the Avars were almost uninterruptedly friendly during the lifetime of the Lombard Kingdom.