Pannonian Avars

Pannonian Avars
567 – after 822[1]
Avar Khaganate around 582–612 AD.
Common languages	Proto-Slavic (late lingua franca)[2] Turkic, Mongolic or Tungusic languages (possibly, partially)[3][4][5] Sogdian[6]
Religion	Originally shamanism and animism, Christianity after 796
Government	Khanate
Khagan
History
• Established	567
• Defeated by Pepin of Italy	796
• Disestablished	after 822[1]
Preceded by Succeeded by Lombards Kingdom of the Gepids Hunnic Empire Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty Samo's Empire Frankish Empire First Bulgarian Empire Samo's Empire Pannonian Slavs Avar March

Coins of the Avars 6th–7th centuries AD, imitating Ravenna mint types of Heraclius.^[9]

The Pannonian Avars (/ˈævɑːrz/; also known as the Obri in chronicles of Rus, the Abaroi or Varchonitai^[10] Greek: Βαρχονίτες, romanized: Varchonítes, or Pseudo-Avars^[11] in Byzantine sources, the Apar, Old Turkic: