The Avars and Bulgars had reached the …
Years: 562 - 562
The Avars and Bulgars had reached the Lower Danube in 562: it is most likely in this year that Bayan becomes their supreme Khagan, as his predecessor, the Kutrigur Khan Zabergan has died.
As allies of the Empire, the Avars have obtained a grant of gold to crush other nomads—the Sabirs, Utigurs, Kutrigurs and Saragurs—in the lands later known as Ukraine, a task they accomplish to the emperor's satisfaction.
Bayan's Avars now exact the renewal of the alliance, increased pay and a land in which to live.
Locations
People
Groups
- Bulgars
- East, or Oriens, Praetorian prefecture of
- Sabir people
- Slavs, South
- Utigurs
- Avars, Eurasian
- Roman Empire, Eastern: Justinian dynasty
- Kutrigurs
