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Group: Indo-Greeks, Kingdom of the
People: Banda Singh Bahadur
Topic: Roman-Persian War of 282-83
Location: Patras > Pátrai Akhaia Greece

Avar hegemony in the northern Balkans ends …

Years: 796 - 807

Avar hegemony in the northern Balkans ends as the Franks, under Charles the Great, or Charlemagne, crush their empire and cart the Avar treasury west to Aachen, using the vast hoard of gold—protection money extorted for centuries from the Eastern Empire—to fuel the Carolingian Renaissance.