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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> *****GK: They [the Avars] continued to be mentioned in the
> Chronicles until the 820's, and may have existed until
> the end of the century . The title of their kagan
> appears in an 871 document, and one of the earliest
> areas occupied by incoming Hungarians are the
> "solitudines Avarorum", the Transdanubian plain along
> the Tysa. Perhaps only a geographical notion by then,
> but perhaps not. Controlled by the Bulgars.*****
I realize that, but beginning with their failed siege of Byzantium in
626 the pressure the Avars exerted on their neighbours became
gradually less extreme. The wide-ranging military actions that were
so characteristic of the early decades of Avar presence ceased almost
completely. The last time an Avar delegation visited Byzantium was, I
think, in 679, and if I remember correctly they didn't even come for
more money (as had been their wont), but just to be nice and polite
and congratulate the Byzantine authorities on the favourable peace
treaty they just concluded with the Arabs. The gradual return of
somewhat more predictable conditions cannot have failed to have had
consequences for settlement patterns.
Willem