The Avar people of the steppes dominated the Hungarian plain until this Frankish king defeated them around 800
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History of Austria - Wikipedia  The history of Austria covers the history of Austria and its predecessor states, from the early ... Austria was dominated by the House of Habsburg (Haus sterreich) from 1273 .... Germanic people, the Bavarii occupied these lands until it fell to the Frankish ... Around 800 AD Charlemagne established the outpost of Avar March...
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Great Moravia - Wikipedia  Great Moravia the Great Moravian Empire, or simply Moravia, was the first major state that was ... Moravia experienced significant cultural development under Prince Rastislav, with the ... from Great Moravia by King Svtopluk I. Arriving in the First Bulgarian Empire, the ..... The people called [Merehanii] have 30 fortresses.
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History of Christianity in Hungary - Wikipedia  The history of Christianity in Hungary began in the Roman province of Pannonia where the .... Contacts between Hungarians and Christians before the 950s seems to have ... King of Hungary in 1000 or 1001 after he had defeated his pagan opponent, ... Among them, the German Bruno of Querfurt described Christian armies...
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Central Europe  Sep 25, 2005 ... The geography of Central Europe is dominated by the Carpathian Mountains. ... Their arc contains the Hungarian Plain, drained by the Danube, the Tisza and ... The eastern, or wooded, Carpathians curve around Transylvania and ..... Shortly thereafter, the Avars, a Hunnic people, attacked from the east,...
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jeopardy/1602_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  WATCH YOUR STEPPE | This 6.5-million square-mile nation stretches from the ... WATCH YOUR STEPPE | The Avar people of the steppes dominated the Hungarian plain until this Frankish king defeated them around 800 | Charlemagne.
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Ten of the greatest: Historical conquerors | Daily Mail Online  Sep 4, 2010 ... He conquered Persia, Armenia, Georgia and part of Russia ... Ashoka loved to hunt and was a warlike young man, the favourite of his father. ... It culminated in the slaughter by the Daya river, where more than 100,000 citizens were killed by his army. .... We are no longer accepting comments on this article.
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Kingdom of the Lombards - Wikipedia  The Kingdom of the Lombards (Latin: Regnum Langobardorum) also known as the Lombard ... Frankish invasion, June 774 .... In 584 the dukes agreed to crown king Cleph's son, Autari, and delivered to the new monarch half ..... Adelchi tells the story of the last king of the Lombards, Desiderius and his children Ermengarde...
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Charlemagne - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  In the 9th Century, Charlemagne rules over most of Europe and brings a renaissance ... Charlemagne (c.742-814), also known as Karl and Charles the Great, was a medieval ... In 800, Pope Leo III (750-816) crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans. ... As a way to acknowledge Charlemagne's power and reinforce his...
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Clovis I - Wikipedia  Clovis was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king ... A few years later, he killed Ragnachar, the Frankish king of Cambrai, along with his brothers. Another victory followed in 491 over a small group of...
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Notes on the Mongol Invasion of Hungary  who lost their lives in the battle at Muhi in 1241 (seven hundred and fifty years earlier). ... of devastating events, including the catastrophic Mongol invasion that occurred ... the death of the Mongol khan, Ogedei, he and his forces moved back to Asia. ... Hungary was in ruins, half the population was wiped out by the Mongols.
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Visigoths - Wikipedia  The Visigoths were the western branches of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to ... In 507, however, their rule in Gaul was ended by the Franks under Clovis I, who defeated .... The last indication that the Goths whose king reigned at Toulouse thought of .... He resolved to cut the city off by capturing its port.
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Lombards - Wikipedia  The Lombards or Longobards were a Germanic people who ruled large parts of the Italian ... By the end of the 5th century, they had moved into the area roughly ... Gepids, Bulgars, Thuringians, and Ostrogoths, and their invasion of Italy was ..... The Byzantines managed to retain control of the area of Ravenna and Rome,...
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Hrothisteus Balt, of the Visigoths (c.290 - c.354) - Genealogy - Geni  Jul 5, 2016 ... Son of Geberich, king of the West Goths and N.N. ... Father of Athanaric II, king of the Visigoths; Rocesthes Balthes and ... in 507 at the Battle of Vouill, when they were defeated by the Franks .... After Alaric's death, Visigothic nobles spirited his heir, the child-king .... 380), rebel against Athanaric and Valens.
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The Rise and Fall of Tigranes the Great, King of Armenia | Ancient ...  Mar 24, 2015 ... Under King Tigranes II the Great, from 95 to 55 B.C. Armenia thrived, ... In the aftermath of the defeat of Antiochus the Great by the Romans ... the Roman Empire in the West and the Parthian Empire in the East. ... Tigranes decided to expand his kingdom, and conquered the lands held by Artanes in 93 B.C..
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Roland - Wikipedia  Roland (Frankish: Hruodland) (died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under ... The story of Roland's death at Roncevaux Pass was embellished in later ... The first and most famous of these epic treatments was the Old French ... The Song contains a highly romanticized and embellished account of the Battle of...
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Attila the Hun - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Sep 25, 2014 ... Attila the Hun (reigned 434-453 CE) was the leader of the nomadic ... Even before Attila became king, the Huns were a formidable fighting force, ... Aspar returned to Constantinople to report these developments to ... After their Danube Offensive, Attila and Bleda led their troops back home ..... Advertisement.
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The Sack of Constantinople - The Roman Empire  The Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in AD 1203/1204 ... carry 4'000 knights, 9'000 squires and 20'000 foot soldiers to 'recapture Jerusalem' for ... This led some of them to instead make their own way to teh east, finding their own means ... Zara was a Christian city in the hands of the Christian King of Hungary.
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Chapter VII. Roland, the Hero of Early France  CHARLES THE GREAT, King of the Franks, world-famous as Charlemagne, won ... This same fight of Roncesvalles was the theme of an archaic poem, the "Song of Altobiscar," written about 1835. ... As befits the hero of an epic, Roland is now of royal blood, the nephew of the ...... Thank God! the victory is yours and mine!'".
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Xerxes I - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Xerxes I (ruled 486-465 BCE), also known as Xerxes the Great, was the king of the ... The Persians were defeated by the Greek forces at the Battle of Marathon in 490 ... and strength, Xerxes felt confident of his success in achieving what the great ... Look at all these people  but not one of them will still be alive in a hundred...
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Battle of Edington - Wikipedia  At the Battle of Edington an army of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army led by Guthrum on a date between 6 and 12 May AD 878. ... By 870, the northmen had conquered the kingdoms of Deira and East Anglia, and in 871 ..... London: J.C.Francis and J.E.Francis.
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World History Flashcards | Quizlet  Family that ruled the Franks from 751 to 987 and built an empire in western Europe ... Ruler in the Carolingian Dynasty who reunited western Europe and spread...