Avar hegemony in the northern Balkans ends …
Years: 796 - 807
Avar hegemony in the northern Balkans ends as the Franks, under Charles the Great, or Charlemagne, crush their empire and cart the Avar treasury west to Aachen, using the vast hoard of gold—protection money extorted for centuries from the Eastern Empire—to fuel the Carolingian Renaissance.
