Pannonian Avars
Pannonian Avars | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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567 – after 822[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Religion | Originally shamanism and animism, Christianity after 796 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Government | Khanate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Established | 567 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Defeated by Pepin of Italy | 796 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | after 822[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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: