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#avars — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. The Lombard Invasion

    The Lombard invasion of Byzantine Italy was a pivotal event in Venetian history.

    The invasion, and the conquests that followed, led to an increased importance of the lagoon settlements, to a slow demise of Byzantine control in north-east Italy, to the establishment of a semi-independent church in the lagoons, and ultimately to Venetian statehood.

    The Lombard invasion, and the subsequent migration of parts of the mainland residents into the lagoons, became a central part of the later Venetian national narrative — the stories they told to explain where they came from and who they were.

    #Avars #Gepids #histodons #Invasions #Lombards #Plague #Venezia #Venice

    Read more here: https://historywalksvenice.com/article/early-venice/the-lombard-invasion/

  2. #GreatRead

    ❤️ interdisciplinary research

    "We found that even 200 years after immigration, the ancestry at one site (Leobersdorf) remained dominantly East Asian-like, whereas the other site (Mödling) shows local, European-like ancestry. These two nearby sites show little biological relatedness, despite sharing a distinctive late-Avar culture."

    This DNA analysis meets #archeology article about the #Avars around Vienna has some amazing findings + it is so well written.

    nature.com/articles/s41586-024