The origin of the feast is assigned by the Synaxarion to the year 626, when Constantinople, in the reign of Heraclius, was attacked by the Persians and Scythians but saved through the intervention of the Most Holy Theotokos (literally, "She who bore God").
The earliest clear reference to the Avar ethonym comes from Priscus the Rhetor who accounts that, c.
From the East Slavic (Wendish) settlers pressed forward into the region of Schweinfurt, who were on the run from their Avar enemies.
Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Eurasian Avars | Eurasian Collared Dove | Eurasian Hobby | Eurasian Bullfinch | Eurasian lynx | Eurasian Dotterel | Eurasian beaver | Eurasian Wren | Eurasian Wigeon | Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker | Eurasian Penduline Tit | Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation | Eurasian Magpie | Eurasian brown bear | Indo (Eurasian) | Eurasian Spoonbill | Eurasian sparrowhawk | Eurasian Siskin | Eurasian Jay | Eurasian harvest mouse | Eurasian Beaver | A mixed group of ''Passer'' sparrows containing a Eurasian Tree Sparrow |
Destroyed by the Goths, it was rebuilt during the rule of Constantine the Great with better defensive walls, which defended the city successfully until the Avars sacked it in 587.
In Europe the Kidarites became known as the Avars, first mentioned in Balkan province of Turkmenistan attacking the Sabirs in 460 AD and who the following century (in 557) entered Europe under the leadership of Kandik.
In the first century BC, it was part of the Dacian Kingdom under Burebista, while in the early Middle Ages, it was ruled by the Hunnic Empire, the Kingdom of the Gepids, the Kingdom of the Avars, the White Croatia and the Kievan Rus'.
Excavations in the necropolis of Vicenne-Campochiaro near Boiano which dates from the 7th century, found among 130 burials that there were 13 human burials alongside horses along with artifacts of Germanic and Avar origin.
The eleventh book has ethnographic interest, with its portrayal of various Byzantine enemies (Franks, Lombards, Avars, Turks, and Slavs).