Skip to content
Andrey Denyer · Public domain
Polity Europe

Avars

Attested 600 CE – 900 CE

Northeast Caucasian ethnic group

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Avars (Caucasus) on Wikipedia.

Read the article

How these dates were made

Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 4 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Avars appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

600 CE 4 snapshots 900 CE
600 CE700 CE800 CE900 CE

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark · Europe

Timgad

100 CE – 700 CE

Polity · Europe

Sweden

Founded 900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Europe

Byzantine–Arab Wars

629 CE – 1180 CE

Trade route · Europe

Venice–Constantinople Route

800 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Europe

Roman Forum

500 BCE – 608 CE

Polity · Europe

Denmark

Founded 800 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Europe

Viking Invasions

793 CE – 1066 CE

Trade route · Europe

Varangian Trade Route

800 CE – 1100 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 600 CE and 900 CE.

600 CE Sutton Hoo 614 CE Dubrovnik 629 CE Byzantine–Arab Wars 670 CE Great Mosque of Kairouan 681 CE Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars 698 CE Tunis

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Potala Palace Landmark · South Asia 637 CE – still standing Simhala Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 700 CE Chinese Grand Canal Trade route · East Asia 600 CE Goguryeo–Sui Wars Conflict · East Asia 598 CE – 614 CE Muhammad Figure · Arabian Peninsula 570 CE – 632 CE Borobudur Landmark · Oceania 800 CE – still standing
Image credits 7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Avars (Caucasus) Andrey Denyer · Public domain
  • Timgad Dan Sloan · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Flag of Sweden Jon Harald Søby and others. · Public domain
  • Arab–Byzantine wars Codex Skylitzes Matritensis, Bibliteca Nacional de Madrid, Vitr. 26-2, Bild-Nr. 77, f 34 … · Public domain
  • Roman Forum This Photo was taken by Wolfgang Moroder. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention … · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Flag of Denmark Madden and others · Public domain
  • Viking expansion Abbey of Saint-Aubin · Public domain