Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)

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THE AGE OF THE GREAT MIGRATION

House of the Avar Period dug into the ground in Csörög Field (PMMI-TIM)

(5th-9th centuries AD)

The second half of the 5th and the first half of the 6th centuries were extremely restless periods in the history of the Carpathian Basin. The peoples coming with the new waves of the great migration (Huns, Germanic Gepids, Goths, Vandals, Scirians, Langobards) settled down here for shorter or longer periods, but none of them could gain ascendency. The situation changed in the second half of the 6th century when the Avars arriving from 568 on in three waves succeeded in consolidating their rule for a long period. The Avar Empire

__________ (Khaganate) existed for

two and a half centuries in the district of the Middle-Danube. Nevertheless, we speak of the Avar Age rather than empire, since the latter was made up of tribes of similar material culture but of different ethnic units.

The nomadic stock-raising people of Asian origin, like the Sarmatians, had to

Ransacked grave of the Avar Period

Earring (PMMI-TIM 79.77.1-2)

acclimatize to the new environments. They gradually settled down and adopted farming and nomadic stockraising. Houses dug in the ground with stone stoves found in the Csörög Field site were typical of the villages of the Avar Age.

String of pearls (PMMI-TIM 80.10.3)