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Pohl, Walter
The Avars, 12/2018Book Chapter
The Avar Empire in Europe took considerable time to build. The ambitious new power needed about ten years of wars and negotiations to find a secure basis to establish its empire: the lands along the middle Danube in the Carpathian Basin. It would take another fifteen years until this process of consolidation was concluded with the conquest of the city of Sirmium in 582. Only then could the Avars start to launch major attacks on the Byzantine Empire, which were to have devastating effects in the course of the 580s. The Avar entry into the Carpathian Basin in 567 becomes
