Avars

Home > ... > Social Sciences and the Law > Anthropology and Archaeology > People > ...

Essential
reading

Compare
side-by-side

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Avars

Avars , 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.

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/.aspx#1E1-Avars" title="Facts and informations about Avars">Avars</a>

Give this article a thumbs-up on StumbleUpon

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

"Avars." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Jul. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"Avars." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (July 9, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Avars.html

"Avars." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Retrieved July 09, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Avars.html

Learn more about citation styles

Avar

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Â© The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Avar a member of a nomadic equestrian people from central Asia who built up a large kingdom in SE Europe from the 6th century but were conquered by Charlemagne (791–9).

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/.aspx#1O214-Avar" title="Facts and informations about Avars">Avars</a>

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Avar." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Oxford University Press. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 9 Jul. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Avar." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Oxford University Press. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (July 9, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Avar.html

ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Avar." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Oxford University Press. 2006. Retrieved July 09, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Avar.html

Learn more about citation styles

Free newspaper and magazine articles

	The other Europe in the Middle Ages; Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans.(Brief Article)(Book Review) Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008
	SLOVENIA: FIRST AVAR GRAVE DISCOVERED IN SLOVENIA. Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 12/23/2001
	RUSSIA: AVAR NATIONAL MOVEMENT DISBANDED IN DAGHESTAN.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included) Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 12/12/2000

Facts and information from other sites

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, and more

	The other Europe in the Middle Ages; Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans.(Brief Article)(Book Review) Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 153 words ; 9789004163898 The other Europe in the Middle Ages; Avars, Bulgars, Khazars, and Cumans. Ed. by Florin Curta. BRILL 2008 492 pages $197.00 Hardcover East Central and Eastern Europe in the... Read more
	SLOVENIA: FIRST AVAR GRAVE DISCOVERED IN SLOVENIA. Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 12/23/2001; 208 words ; ...first evidence of Avar settlement this far west. The Avars, a nomadic Asian people, established themselves...the Balkans, either as allies or vassals of the Avars -- or as allies of the Avars' opponents. The Franks under Charlemagne destroyed... Read more
	RUSSIA: AVAR NATIONAL MOVEMENT DISBANDED IN DAGHESTAN.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included) Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 12/12/2000; 121 words ; ...believes that its continued existence could increase the likelihood of clashes between Daghestan's various ethnic groups. The Avars are the largest ethnic group in Daghestan, accounting for 28 percent of the population, followed by the Dargins (16 percent... Read more
	Catastrophe! (history shows that climate change has economic and demographic consequences). Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...were to milk and meat on the hoof. THE AVARS `They are treacherous, foul untrustworthy...century, about the hordes of Mongolian Avars who had migrated across Asia and had begun...Empire. Originating in far-off Mongolia, the Avars had been forced to migrate westwards by... Read more
	The changing facets of Hungarian nationalism.(Nationalism Reexamined) Magazine article from: Social Research; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...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... Read more
	RUSSIA: PAPER ALLEGES CENSUS RESULTS FACILITATE FRAUD, CORRUPTION.(Brief Article) Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 12/8/2002; 172 words ; ...political gain. Some 15 new ethnic groups were identified in the Republic of Daghestan, comprised of citizens previously counted as Avars. As a result, the Avar elites who have dominated Daghestani politics might lose clout. In Bashkortostan, officials embarrassed... Read more
	Bosnian bishop says, 'Serbs may annihilate us.'(Bishop Franjo Komarica)(Interview) Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 5/19/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...possible that at the end of the 20th century, that the Serbs, our Orthodox brothers, would accomplish what neither the Huns nor the Avars, the Mongols nor the Tatars, the Turks nor the unbelieving communists could accomplish, namely the annihilation of the Catholic... Read more
	Konstantinos Sp. Staikos. The History of the Library in Western Civilization. Vol. 3, From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion.(Book review) Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the fourth and fifth centuries--pulverizing cities, culture, and literacy--serious threats soon materialized from Persians, Avars, and Slavs to the north and east. After 634, Islamic Arabs quickly conquered the Middle East, Egypt, and North Africa--Constantinople... Read more
	Chechnya: the achilles heel of Russia--part one. Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...nations that were suddenly cast outside Russia by the breakup of the USSR (such as the Abkhaz and Ossetians in Georgia, the Avars and Lezghins in Azerbaijan) testifies, only 'mother Russia' [matushka Rossia] is perhaps the historic destiny for all Caucasian... Read more
	The Gimlet Eye. (the term 'it's the nineties' means different things now)(Column) Magazine article from: National Review; 7/15/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Greeks divided up into two different Christian churches. The Goths came out of nowhere and took over half of Europe. The Huns came out of nowhere and went back to nowhere. We had the Avars, the Bulgars, the Persians, we probably had five million peopl Read more