Translated by Judit Pokoly, Lara Strong and Christopher Sullivan.
Author(s): Béla Miklós Szőke
Publisher: Hungarian National Museum
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 142
City: Budapest
The Carolingian Age in the Carpathian Basin / Béla Miklós Szőke 7
The disintegration of the Avar khaganate 9
Charlemagne's campaign (791) 10
The Avar 'civil war' 12
Pippin's campaign (796) 14
Avar rearguard actions 15
A victory for Krum Khan? 18
The kapkhan and his people 'inter Sabariam et Carnuntum' and the 'old dignity' of the khagan (805) 19
Peace in Aachen (811) 24
The cultural face of the khaganate at the end of the Avar age 26
The setting up of Carolingian administration in Pannonia 38
The first counties in the Danube valley 38
Pannonia inferior in the lands between the Drava and Sava rivers – the rebellion of Liudewit (818–823) 39
Timochani, Abodriti, Praedenecenti, Moravians, Avars (822) 41
The Bulgar conquest (827–829) 44
Reorganisation of the administration (828) 46
The counties of Ratpod and Rihheri 50
The Mosaburg County of Priwina and Chezil (Kocel) 51
Priwina 51
Priwina and Nitrava 51
Flight and settlement 53
Dux and comes in the Carolingian East 57
Priwina and the Carolingian administration 59
From vassal to proprietor with full rights 59
Priwina and the Church of Salzburg 61
Evangelisation and evangelisers in the first decade 61
Dominicus 63
Sandrat and Ermperht 67
Salapiugin 76
Building up a network of private churches 76
Swarnagal and Altfrid 78
Rihpaldus 91
Chezil (Kocel) and Methodius 91
Constantine and Methodius in Moravia and in Mosaburg 91
Methodius, archbishop of Pannonia and Moravia 93
Mosaburc regia civitas – royal palatinate 98
Society in the Carpathian Basin in the Carolingian age as revealed by burials 103
The attire of the elite and common people in Mosaburg 104
The disintegration of the Carolingian East 111
Hungarians on the Danube – Great Plain in the second half of the 9th century 111
The end-game of the Carolingian Empire in Pannonia 116
The Battle of Brezalauspurc 120
Selected bibliography 122
Animal Finds from Mosaburg-Zalavár / Annamária Bárány & István Vörös 125
Wooden Remains from the 9th and 10th Centuries / András Gryneaus 135
