Avar March

Avar March

The Avar March ( _de. Awarenmark) was a frontier district established by Charlemagne against Avaria in the southeast of the Carolingian Empire.

In the late 8th century, Charlemagne destroyed the Avar fortress called the "Ring of the Avars" and made the people tributary to him. He set up a march in eastern Bavaria between the Danube and the Drava to protect the empire from any future attacks from Pannonia. The military command of the Avar March was given to a regional count with authority over the other counts and the right to call up the levy (Marchfutter). The Avars, however, disappear from the records in the 820s and so the Avar March with them. It was replaced by the March of Pannonia and the March of Carinthia.


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