Avar
آوار
People of undetermined origin who built an empire in eastern Europe between the Adriatic and Baltic seas and the Elbe and Dnieper rivers in the 6th–9th centuries. Mounted nomads, possibly from Central
Asia, they made the
Hungarian plain the centre of their empire, from which they intervened in Germanic tribal wars, helped the Lombards overthrow allies of
Byzantium, and nearly succeeded in occupying
Constantinople in 626. They also fought the Merovingians and helped push the Serbs and Croats southward.
Avar decline began in the late 7th century and culminated in the destruction of their capital by
Charlemagne in 796. In the early 9th century the Avars were fully incorporated in the Carolingian empire.
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