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CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS ITHACA AND LONDON
To my mother
Edith Pohl
19212016
Timeline
| ca. 463 | First mention of central Asian Avars in Byzantine sources (Priscus) in connection with westward migration of Sabirs, Ogurs, Saragurs, and Onogurs |
| 527565 | Emperor Justinian I |
| 552555 | The Turks under Bumin destroy the central Asian empire of the Rouran |
| Dec. 558/Jan. 559 | First Avar embassy under Kandikh in Constantinople; Avars north of the Caucasus |
| Invasion by Cutrigurs under Zabergan stopped outside Constantinople by Belisarius | |
| ca. 558562 | Western Turks under Istemi in alliance with the Persians subdue Hephthalite Empire |
| 559561 | Avars advance north of the Black Sea and defeat Sabirs, Utigurs, and Antes |
| ca. 560582/83 | Baian, khagan of the Avars |
| 560/61572 | Alboin, king of the Lombards |
| 562/63 | First Turkish embassy in Constantinople warns against alliance with the Avars |
| Sigibert I, king of the Franks, repels an Avar attack near the Elbe | |
| Avars at the Lower Danube; negotiations about a settlement on Roman territory fail | |
| 565578 | Emperor Justin II |
| Nov. 565 | The Avar envoy Targitius arrives shortly after Justin IIs coronation; the emperor refuses to pay further subsidies |
| A second Avar expedition against the Franks under Sigibert I is victorious; he buys off the Avars with foodstuffs and concludes an alliance with them | |
| The Gepids defeat the Lombards with Byzantine support, but do not hand over Sirmium to the Byzantines as promised | |
| Winter 566/67 | A Lombard embassy concludes an alliance against the Gepids with Khagan Baian, but only under great concessions |
| Decisive victory of the Lombards under Alboin against the Gepids, whose king Cunimund dies in battle; the Avars occupy the land of the Gepids and besiege the Gepid capital Sirmium, which Byzantine troops under Bonus have occupied | |
| 567574 | Fruitless negotiations between the Avars and Byzantium for a new treaty |
| April 568 | Lombards and affiliated groups under King Alboin begin to leave Pannonia for Italy; the Avars occupy the land of the Lombards |
| Late 568 | Turkish embassy under the Sogdian Maniakh in Constantinople |
| 569571 | Byzantine embassy under Zemarchus travels to the Turk khagan Sizabulos/Istemi |
| ca. 570 | Victory of Tiberius over the Avars |
| Beginning of the twenty-year war of Byzantium against the Persians; Avar pressure increases | |
| Victory of the Avars over Tiberius; Emperor Justin II withdraws from politics, and in December appoints Tiberius Caesar | |
| Winter 574/75 | A new treaty of the Avars with Byzantium fixes the annual subsidies at 80,000 solidi |
| 576577 | Byzantine embassy under Valentinus meets the new Turkish khagan Turxanthus, who reproaches them because of the treaty with the Avars; Turks and subdued Utigurs take the Byzantine city Bosporus/Kerch |
| First culmination of Slavic raids in Thrace; Avars attack the Slavic settlement area north of the Danube with Byzantine support after the Slavic prince Dauritas has killed Avar envoys | |
| 578582 | Emperor Tiberius II |
| 579582 | Avars besiege Sirmium; the city capitulates after three years |
| The peace treaty between Baian and Tiberius leaves the subsidies at 80,000 solidi plus arrears | |
| 582602 | Emperor Maurice |
| ca. 583ca. 602/10 | One of Baians sons is khagan |
| ca. 582/83 | Inner conflicts in the Turkish Empire |
| ca. 583 | The Varchonite tribes Tarniakh, Kotzagir, and Zabender flee from the Turks and join the Avars |
| 583/84 | New wave of Slavic raids in the Balkan provinces; Greece is increasingly targeted |
| Fall 584 | After the Byzantines have refused to raise the subsidies, the Avars capture Singidunum, Viminacium, and Augusta and march as far as Anchialus; failed mission of Comentiolus to the khagan |
| Spring 585 | A second Byzantine embassy under Elpidius concludes a treaty with the Avars that raises the subsidies to 100,000 solidi |
| Fall 586 | On the instigation of the fugitive Avar high priest Bookolabras, Maurice interns the Avar ambassador Targitius; the khagan renews his attacks and plunders Aquis, Bononia, Ratiaria, Apiaria, Durostorum, Zaldapa, Pannasa, Tropaeum Traiani, and Marcianopolis |
| Sept. 586 | Avar-led Slavic siege of Thessalonica fails |
| War in Thrace, fighting at Tomis and at Sabulente Canalis; Avar attacks on Mesembria and unsuccessful sieges of Beroe, Diocletianopolis, and Philippopolis; successful intervention of John Mystacon at Adrianople | |
| 587/88 | Avars and Slavs take Patras and other Greek cities and begin to settle in Greece |
| 591616 | Lombard king Agilulf |
| Peace treaty between Byzantium and the new Persian king Chosroes | |
| Slavs attack Singidunum; Avar war, fighting at the Procliana Pass; siege of Drizipera; Avar victory at Heraclea; General Priscus besieged in Tzurullon; renewal of the treaty | |
| Bavarian campaign under Tassilo I against Slavs | |
| Campaign of Priscus against Slavs north of the lower Danube; victories over the groups under Ardagast and Musucius | |
| Slavic raids against Zaldapa, Aquis, and Scopi; Petrus leads a campaign against Slavs, victory over the Peiragast group, and defeat at the Helibacius | |
| Campaign of Priscus against the Avars, confrontation at Singidunum; Avar raid on inland Dalmatia | |
| Bavarian attack on Slavs; counterattack by the khagan, Bavarian army routed | |
| 596597 | Eighteen months of peace along the Danube |
| Avars attack Thuringia; the Frankish queen Brunhild buys them off | |
| Fall 597 | Avar campaign along the Danube; Avar army hibernates near Tomi |
| Fighting in Thrace, Comentiolus defeated at Iatrus; Avars capture Drizipera; their army decimated by the plague; Roman envoy Harmaton negotiates a rise of subsidies to 120,000 solidi | |
| Offensive of Priscus on Avar territory: victories opposite Viminacium, and over the khagans army at the Tisza | |
| ca. 600 | Avar peace treaties with Lombards and Franks |
| 601/2 | Avars, Slavs, and Lombards raid Byzantine Istria |
| Avar army under Apsikh and Roman army under Petrus face each other at the Iron Gate | |
| Avars under Apsikh defeat the Antes; Roman units under Guduin attack Slavs north of the lower Danube, but rebel against the order to hibernate in Slavic lands | |
| Nov. 602 | Rebels under Phocas overthrow and kill Emperor Maurice |
| 602610 | Emperor Phocas; new war against the Persians |
| Aug. 603 |
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