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Régészeti tanulmányok - Madara László: Hol lehetett az avarok hring-je? II.
TISICUM XXV. - RÉGÉSZET SZÁDECZKY-KARDOSS Samu 1998. Az avar történelem forrásai 557-tői 806-ig. Magyar Őstörténeti Könyvtár 12. Budapest. SZŐKE Béla 1960. Az avarok hringje. Le Hring des Avars. In: Archaeologiai Értesítő 87.61-63. SZŐKE Béla Miklós 2014. A Karoling-kor a Kárpát-medencében. A Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum állandó kiállítása. Budapest. SZENTPÉTERI József 2013. Az Avar Kaganátus hatalmi központjai - a hringek. - The hrings - Political centres of the Avar Khaganate. In: Tisicum XXII. A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok évkönyve. Szolnok. 169-177. László Madaras Where could be the Hring of the Avars? II. I already dealt with the possible geographical location of the seat for the Avar Kagans in a previous article. In that I review the written sources, where the possible location is mentioned, than I draw up a research history about how my Colleagues took sides in the question. In the end I explained what I think about the matter (Madaras 2015.73-82.). In this second part I examined with the help of the written sources, that where could the embassies coming from Byzantium meet with the ruler of the Avars until 626, the unsuccessful siege of Byzantium. Just until then as according to my best knowledge, there was no Byzantine embassy to the Avar Empire after that point. There are eight sources I could use for this research. None of them can be localized to the Great Hungarian Plains, but in several occasions Sirmium and its surroundings came up. An artefact found in the surroundings of Sirmium came into my scope at the same time (Popovic 1997). This gold pseudo-buckle belt furniture can be related to the Kunbábony Kagan grave’s pseudo-buckle belt and for sure was made by the emperor’s highest quality workshop. In the last third of my article I bring up more evidences that in the Kunbábony grave 1 a Kagan rested. Based on the above I draw up the conclusion that in the coming research the possibility of the Early Avar (567/568-626/630) centre of the Kaganate - or one of them - could have been in Sirmium has to be examined. After the widely known events of the end of the 7th century’s first third the ruling Kagan may have moved his seat to the Plains, what was always the core area of the Avars. 248
