Some Avars refused to collaborate with Russians and migrated to Turkey, where their descendants live to this day. Despite war and emigration, the Avars retained their position as the dominant ethnic …

Dec 17, 2014 · The Avars were a confederation of heterogeneous (diverse or varied) people consisting of Rouran, Hephthalites, and Turkic-Oghuric races who migrated to the region of the Pontic Grass …

The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers, …

The Avars, also known as Maharuls', are a Northeast Caucasian ethnic group. The Avars are the largest of several ethnic groups living in the Russian republic of...

The Avars, who had come from Eastern Central Asia, ruled much of Eastern Central Europe for a quarter millennium, from the 6th to the 9th century C.E. They may be less known than their less …

Dec 21, 2025 · A groundbreaking genetic study has uncovered details about the hidden history of the Avars, an enigmatic warrior culture that dominated Hungary 1,500 years ago.

Apr 1, 2022 · North of the Lower Danube, the Avars encountered Slavic populations who had only appeared recently in the written record. The Avars had entered into an alliance with the Byzantine (or …

The Avars engaged in wars against Byzantium, almost occupying Constantinople in 626, and against the Merovingians; they also were partly responsible for the southward migration of the Serbs and the …

The Avars swept into Eastern Europe in the mid-sixth century AD, presumably to escape domination by the rising Göktürks. This period witnessed a great expansion of the early Turkic tribes which were …

The Avars are the largest of several ethnic groups living in the Russian republic of Dagestan. The Avars reside in the North Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.