AVARS

äˈvärz, mounted nomad people who in the 4th and 5th cent. dominated the steppes of central Asia. Dislodged by stronger tribes, the Avars pushed west, increasing their formidable army by incorporating conquered peoples into it. Reaching their greatest power in the late 6th cent., they plundered all of present S Russia and the Balkans. Their siege (626) of Constantinople was unsuccessful, but they continued to dominate the Hungarian plain until Charlemagne defeated them. The Avars were not mentioned after the 9th cent. It is doubtful that the modern Avars, a pastoral, Muslim people of the Dagestan Republic, are descended from the original Avars.

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books on: Avars  - 540 results

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The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia
Book by René Grousset, Naomi Walford; Rutgers University Press, 1970
Subjects: Asia, Central--History
...Sarmatians. He may have heard also of the Avars and the Khazars. But it is improbable that...Century The Avars 171...of the Asian. After the Huns came the Avars, a Mongol horde which had fled from Central...
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The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region, Ca. 500-700
Book by Florin Curta; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology)--Danube River Region, Slavs--Balkan Peninsula--History, Slavs--Danube River Region--History, Slavs--Ethnicity, Slavs--History
...the age-structure of hoards. Chapter 5 presents the archaeological evidence pertaining to the presence of Gepids, Lombards, Avars, and Cutrigurs in the region north of the Danube river. Special emphasis is laid on the role of specific artifacts, such as...
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Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The Struggle for the Middle Danube, 788-907
Book by Charles R. Bowlus; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995
Subjects: Danube River Valley--History, Europe, Central--History
...succeeded in defeating a steppe people, the Avars, in a series of campaigns at the end of...Franks and other peoples, most prominently Avars, Moravian Slavs, and Magyars. Although...Julian Alps to become their heirs, and Avars, steppe nomads accompanied by Slavs, delivered...
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A History of Charles the Great (Charlemagne)
Book by J. I. Mombert; Kegan Paul, Trench, 1888
Subjects: Charlemagne--Emperor--742-814
...CHAPTER VII. CONQUEST OF THE AVARS. The Avars.--Preparations.--March.--Pepins raid.--Stampede of the en emy.--Devastation.--The Avars seek Christianity.--Exploit of Eric.-- The...
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One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups
Book by James B. Minahan; Greenwood Press, 2000
Subjects: Ethnology--Europe--Dictionaries, Europe--History--Dictionaries
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Kosovo: A Case of Ethnic Change of Population(*)
Journal article by Vladimir Velebit; East European Quarterly, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Ethnicity--Yugoslavia, Kosovo--History, Violence--Religious aspects
...able to hold a conquered territory for a long period. In the 6th and 7th centuries when the Slavonic tribes, mixed with the Avars, made their appearance in the Balkans, the area was sparsely inhabited by many different tribes of the Illyrians, the Dardanians...
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The Changing Facets of Hungarian Nationalism
Journal article by György Csepeli, Antal örkény; Social Research, Vol. 63, 1996
Subjects: Social Sciences
...were pushed by mass population movements to the Carpathian Basin where in 1000 they founded the Hungarian Kingdom. The Slavs, Avars, Pechenegs, Cumans, and Jazygians, who were already living in the Carpathian Basin, inextricably mixed with the Hungarians...
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The Geographical Pivot of History (1904)
Journal article by H.J. Mackinder; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 170, 2004
Subjects: Geography, Historical, Historical geography
...a remarkable succession of Turanian nomadic peoples--Huns, Avars, Bulgarians, Magyars, Khazars, Patzinaks, Cumans, Mongols, Kalmuks...freely through the vacant space. The Huns were followed by the Avars. It was for a marchland against these that Austria was founded...
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Retracing the Past to the Cradle of Croatian History
Journal article by Ivo Rendic-Miocevic; East European Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Croatia--History, Ethnic relations--History, Ethnicity--Croatia, Social groups--History
...the Croats linked their ethnogenesis to their victory over the Avars and to their conquest of the Roman area south of the Danube...and has been ascribed variously to the Slavs, Iranians, or Avars, and traced to either the great migrations or to regional developments...
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Estimation in Dual Frame Surveys with Complex Designs
Journal article by C.J. Skinner, J.N.K. Rao; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 91, 1996
Subjects: Maximum likelihood estimates (Statistics)--Methods, Sampling (Statistics)--Methods, Statistical sampling--Methods
...this end, we define the design effects of Mathematical Expressions Omitted and Mathematical Expressions Omitted where avars.sub.srs denotes asymptotic variance under simple random sampling. Also, define the effective sample sizes (Kish 1965, p. 259...
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The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople: Jonathan Phillips Sees One of the Most Notorious Events in European History as a Typical 'Clash of Cultures'
Magazine article by Jonathan Phillips; History Today, Vol. 54, May 2004
Subjects: Late Byzantine Empire, 1025-1453--Analysis, Late Byzantine Empire, 1025-1453--History
...to loot the greatest metropolis in the Christian world. Constantinoples mighty walls had resisted numerous ouslaughts as the Avars, Persians and Arabs had tried to assail its defences over the centuries. Yet always the queen of cities, us the Byzantines described...
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Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium
Magazine article by Charles Freeman; History Today, Vol. 53, October 2003
Subjects: Herbert was aged 23, a bachelor and a File Smith residing on Hoyle Street. Annie was aged 22, a spinster, residing on Hoyle Street (Book)--Reviews
...empire was facing crushing pressures from the Persians, the Avars on the Balkan borders, and finally Islam, suggests that this...in addition to the Persian invasions a major attack by the Avars had reached the impregnable walls of Constantinople in 626...
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The Elusive Eastern Empire: As the Royal Academy in London Opens a Major New Exhibition on the Artistic Splendours of the Byzantine Empire, Dionysios Stathakopoulos Surveys Its History, from Its Foundation in 324 to Its Conquest in 1453
Magazine article by Dionysios Stathakopoulos; History Today, Vol. 58, November 2008
Subjects: Byzantine Empire, 330-1453--History, Byzantine antiquities--Collections and collecting
...attacks. Moreover, a new force emerged in the Balkans: the Turkic Avars and the Slavs. From the 580s onwards the Slavs began their settlement...626, while the emperor was away, the Persians with the aid of Avars and Slavs besieged Constantinople. The city was saved, according...
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Life in the Margins: From Brooklyn to Bulgaria
Magazine article by Steven G. Kellman; American Scholar, Vol. 71, Summer 2002
Subjects: Bulgaria--Description and travel, Conduct of life--Personal narratives, Culture--Personal narratives, International relations--Evaluation, Travel--Personal narratives
...and the French, he found it more politic to use Bulgars and Avars as satirical surrogates. Brutish Bulgar soldiers in Candide...title character into their foolish and ferocious war against the Avars, and they rape and disembowel his beloved Cunegonde. It is all...
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Split's Personality: Although Tourists Have Been Rediscovering Croatia's Potential as a Holiday Destination for Several Years Now, Split Remains Something of a Hidden Gem. Jo Sargent Unearths One of Eastern Europe's Best-Kept Secrets Hidden among Some of the Adriatic Coast's Oldest Roman Ruins
Magazine article by Jo Sargent; Geographical, Vol. 77, December 2005
Subjects: Split, Croatia--Description and travel, Split, Croatia--History, Split, Croatia--Social aspects
...since its construction and is now one of the oldest cathedrals still in use. When Salona was almost obliterated in 614 AD by the Avars--a Turkic people whose empire extended across most of Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia--the survivors fled to Diocletians palace...
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Toys ... Are Us!; It Started with Their Voices . . . Then, Bit by Bit, Tom Hanks and Tim Allen Became Woody and Buzz - in the Smash Hit Cartoon Movie, Toy Story, out This Week
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), March 17, 1996
Subjects: Allen, Tim, Hanks, Tom
...into the same kind of moveable images on the computer screen. AVARs - standing for articulated variables - enabled the operator...instance, simply moving Buzzs elbow was one of several thousand AVARs which controlled every movement he made. Woodys face had 212...
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Chechen-Russian Wars Date from 16th Century
Newspaper article by David R. Sands; The Washington Times, March 5, 2000
...1990s "comes as no surprise." The determination of Mr. Putin to hold on to Chechnya also has deep historical roots. Laks, Avars, Ossetians, Balkars, Chechens, Ingush and Kumiks are only a few of the large number of ethnic groups in the Caucasus, many with...


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encyclopedia articles on: Avars  - 29 results

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Avars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AVARS a varz, mounted nomad people who in the 4th and 5th cent...steppes of central Asia. Dislodged by stronger tribes, the Avars pushed west, increasing their formidable army by incorporating...the Hungarian plain until Charlemagne defeated them. The Avars were not mentioned after the 9th cent. It is doubtful that...
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Alboin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALBOIN al boin, d. 572?, first Lombard king in Italy (569 572?). With the Avars he defeated the Gepidae (see Germans ). He then led (568) an army across the Alps into Italy, took (569) Milan, and after a...
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Justin II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and successor to Justinian I. He allied himself with the Turks and resumed the wars with Persia. During his reign Slavs and Avars attacked the empire, and Italy was invaded by the Lombards under Alboin . He severely persecuted the Monophysites. Subject...
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Heraclius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...son of a governor of Africa, he succeeded the tyrant Phocas, whom he deposed and had executed. In the early years of his reign Avars and Bulgars threatened, attacking even Constantinople, and the Persians conquered Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. In three costly...
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Maurice , Byzantine Emperor
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...failed to halt the Lombards in Italy but ended (591) the war with Persia, restored Khosru II to the throne, and defeated the Avars. His strict discipline caused mutiny in the Danubian army, and he was obliged to flee. He was killed by order of the usurper...
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