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Band of savages who, in the fifth century A.D., overran the parents of St. Fidgeta [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 11].
Avars were a mounted nomad people who in the 4th and 5th century dominated areas of central Asia. Stronger tribes pushed them further west and their army took on new people as other tribes were conquered. The Avars moved to the Russian steppes, where the Byzantine emperor Justinian paid them to subjugate the Huns and Slavs who had been raiding Roman provinces in the Balkans. The empire of the Avars peaked at the end of the 6th century. They were partly responsible for the southward migration of the Serbs and Croats. The Avar state, weakened by internal dissent, was destroyed by a combined Frankish and Bulgarian attack in 796.
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