Pannonian Avars

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The Pannonian Avars or Carpathian Avars ( AV-arz) were a confederation of Eurasian nomads. They were also known as the Obri (modern Russian: обры, Obry) in the chronicles of the Rus, as the Abaroi or Varchonitai (Greek: Βαρχονῖται, romanized: Varchonitai), or Pseudo-Avars in Byzantine sources, and as the Apar (Old Turkic: 𐰯𐰺) to the Göktürks. They established the Avar Khaganate, centred in the Carpathian Basin, which lasted from the late-6th to the early-9th centuries CE. They exerted influence and control over surrounding areas in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The name "Pannonian Avars" (after Pannonia in the upper Danube basin where they eventually settled) is used to distinguish them from the Avars of the Caucasus, a separate people with whom the Pannonian Avars may or may not have had links. Although the name Avar first appeared in the mid-5th century, the Pannonian Avars entered the historical scene in the mid-6th century on the Pontic–Caspian steppe as a people who wished...

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