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 516 APPENDIX edited and translated by Pocock 1663 '^^^.'^''TX^rlASlST' iZi Hebraeus made considerable use of the chronicle of Michael of Melitene. .liest account : Wright, op. cit., p. 265 sqq.] Moi.EKN Works. Finlay. History of Greece, vols, i..' »•' "*A ' ^^^^JJ";. <,chichte Griechenlands (in Ersch und Gruber's Lnzyklopadie, B. 8o), G. t. Hertz Si G^eschichte GriechenlaiKls, Pt. 1 ; F. C. Schlosser, Geschichte der bilder- Srairnden KaVscr des ostron.. Rciches (1812) ; Bury, Later Roman Empire, vol. T^^Z^ntAui.che Geschichten, vol. iii (1877) ; A Rambaud. L empire L;e'c au dixibme .^ibcle, 1870; Hodgkiu, Italy and her Invaders, vols, v and vi. pfnV,. Welt^eschichte vols, iv., v. (H. Gelzer has written an able and origmal Sine of SuSL hiltory for thJ second edition of Krumbacher's Hist, of PvrLiteratuit A bright brief sketch of the Byzantine Empire by C. ^ . C. gnan'^Jp >:aS-in the series.of the Story of the Nations. ^or C,ronolog3- Plinton Fasti Romani, vol. i . p. 149 sqq. ('old to a.d. Ml], Muralt, Mbai ae cCo:'rapl, e b^z^nUne, two vols. (1855'l871), ^ For Mohammad, see above, p. 513 fo! tL Saiacen conquests : Weil's Geschichte der Chahfen. vol. i., Muir s Annals of the Early Caliphate, and other works referred to in chapters 1. and li. ^.rciaUv p 4.59 and 474. Fo^ Italy, besides Hodgkin's work (see above) : Grego- rov^urGeschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter (trans ated ^^to Enghsh by Sirs. nlmUton) • Diehl, Etudes sur ladministration byzantme dans 1 exarchat de Ra- ?enna(T888) ; M. Hartmann, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der by zant. Ver- 508 bis 628 (1887) ; C. Hegel, Geschichte der Stadteverfassung vou Italien (1847). Special monographs have been mentioned in appropriate places m the notes and in the foregoing appendix. 2. THE AVAR CONQUEST-(P. 7) The Avars having subdued the Uturgurs, Sabiri, and other Hunnic peoples between the Dnieper'and Volga (Menander, fr. 5, p. 203, ed. Muller), and having efther receTved the submission of,i or entered into friendly aUiance with, a the Kotri-^urs moved westward, and we find them attacking Austrasia, and fighting on the Etb^^n A.D. 562 (see above, p. 4). The subjugation of the Antae 3 (...,,. 560' wa evidently a stage on this march westward. It is clear that their incur- sions hito Frank territory were not made from such a distant basis as south- eastern Russia, the banks of the Dnieper or Don ; and it is also certain that thej had not reached their ultimate home in Hungary before a.d. o62 or even before AD 566 for Hungary was at this time occupied by Lombards and Gepids. The Question arises? Where were the Avars settled in the intermediate years between theh- trhimphs on the Don and the Dnieper (a.d. 559-60), and their occupa ion ot H^nVa" Tn 567)? Whence did they go forth twice ^gamst the Austras.an £n"dom (A.D. 562, and 566) ? whence did they send the embassy which was rudel} received bv Justiii (a.d. 565) ? whence did they go orth to destroy the Gepids. The statement of the Avar ambassador in Corippus (.5, 300) :— nunc ripas Scythici victor rex contigit Istri densaque per latos figens tentoria campos, &c.,, ^, _ , might seem to prove that the Avars had advance.l along the shores of the Pontus rnfstationed themselves in Wallachia. In that «fse they woidd have ent re- Dacia by the passes of Rothenthurm and Buza, and attacked the Gepids on that side But Schafarik* has made it highly probable that they entered Lpper 1 So Schafarik, Slaw. Alterthumer, ed. Wuttke, ii., 57-8. „,. ^., proposed Korp.yovpo.. It seems to me more hkely that Korpay„yo5 was the name ol Kotrigur chief. 3 Menander, fr. 6. * lb., p. 6i.
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