Significant568 CE – 626 CE · 58 years

Avar–Byzantine wars

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Greece · Serbia · Turkey

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Wars between the Avar Khaganate (with Slavic allies) and the Byzantine Empire in the Balkans, ending with the failed siege of Constantinople.

Belligerents6

Byzantine Empire
Avars
Slavs
Persia
Slavic Tribes
Avar Kingdom

ON THE MAPByzantine Empire (Justinian–Maurice)Sassanid Empire

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 6

Battle of Sirmium580 CE
Battle of Thessalonica586 CE
Battle of Viminacium601 CE
Battle of Thessalonica615 CE
Battle of Thessalonica618 CE
Battle of Constantinople626 CE

Sources

Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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