Slavs in Lower Pannonia

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Early Slavs settled in the eastern and southern parts of the former Roman province of Pannonia. The term Lower Pannonia was used to designate those areas of the Pannonian Plain that lie to the east and south of the river Rába, with the division into Upper and Lower inherited from the Roman terminology. From the middle of the 6th to the end of the 8th century, the Slavic inhabitants of the region lived under the rule of the Pannonian Avars. By the beginning of the 9th century, after the Avar Wars, the Avar Khaganate was and replaced by the Frankish Empire, which lasted until the Magyar conquest (c. 900). Within the Frankish administrative system, the March of Pannonia was created. Direct Frankish rule was exercised in Upper Pannonia, while local Slavic princes governed the Principality of Lower Pannonia under Frankish suzerainty. During the 9th century, Frankish domination in Lower Pannonia was also contested by the Bulgarian Empire and Great Moravia. By the 10th century, the Hungarian conquest...

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