Re: [tied] Walachians are placed far North the Danube in Nestor (10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "willemvermeer" <wrvermeer@...>
wrote:
......

>
> In 560 or shortly afterwards the Avars organized a power center in
> the Hungarian Plain, which they were forced to give up only in the
> mid nineties of the eighth century (i.e. more than two centuries
> later). Their military concept crucially involved the maintenance

of

> a wide empty zone as part of their elaborate defense system

(nowadays

> colloquially known as the "Awarenwüste"). In the half century or so
> after 560 the combined effect of Avar raids and Slav migrations put
> an end to all settled urban life except in coastal locations. There
> are reports about huge southward streams of refugees.

And it might be noted that this came on the heels of the Plague of
Justinian which may have caused a large population reduction by
itself, especially in urban areas.

Ned Smith