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The Slavs and the Avars
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Omeljan Pritsak (Gli Slavi occidentali e meridionali nell'alto medioevo, Spoleto, 15-21 aprile 1982, t. I, pp. 353-435)
SETTIMANE DI STUDIO DEL CENTRO ITALIANO DI STUDI SULL'ALTO MEDIOEVO, XXX, 1983
Part __1_ ( Avars; nomads of the steppe and nomads of the sea; rule by professional warrior and merchant elites; charismatic leaders usually living in towns before coming to power; leader's retinue - the Germanic comitatus, the Old Turkic buyruq, the Hunnic boyla-r; military slavery systems - the Mamlūks of Egypt/Syria, or the Ottoman qulluq; military settlements - the Russian Kazak; Pseudo-Avars)
Part __2_ ( the name «Slav»; Jordanes; Οὖννοι, Σκλαβηνοί, Ἄνται; Venethi; Vinidarii; the Slavic and the Turkic linguae francae of the 500 AD )
Part __3_ ( the Ostrogothic and Frankish Vinidi; Winidi and Samo; Winidi and Antai - frontiermen; Alans - cavalry )
Part __4_ ( the Sclaveni as a post-Gothic institution; the Σκλάβοι/Σκλαβηνοί as the new military units for the new pax-builders in the steppe - the Proto-Bulgars, after the Germanic tribal withdrawal to Italy/Gaul; all Proto-Bulgarian branches have their own Sklavin-/Ṣ(a)qlab; the Khazar pax; the five Sklavin bands attacking Thessalonica and their Hunno-Iranian names which reflect the Ponto-Caspian milieu of the time; Proto-Bulgarian etymology of Sklavin- / Slav-; the Sklavins as a new, amphibious, type of troops after the rise of Constantinople; the Sklavins and the Avar pax )
Part __5_ ( nomadic paxes - Säbirs, (Pseudo)-Avars, and their need for manpower; a Slavic lingua franca developing in the military camps of the Avar pax; Germanic cultural borrowings in «Common Slavic» from the Winidi; Serbs and Croats - successor states after the demise of the Avar Pax )
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