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Avar
[ ah-vahr ]
noun
- a member of a people, probably originating in Asia, who settled in Dacia a.d. c555, later occupied Pannonia, and invaded other parts of central and eastern Europe before their decline in the 9th century.
Avar
/ ˈævɑː; ˈeɪvɑː /
noun
- a member of a people of unknown origin in E Europe from the 6th to the early 9th century ad : crushed by Charlemagne around 800
- a member of a people of the Caucasas
- the language of this people, belonging to the North-East Caucasian family
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The Helvetians, and close upon their track the Romans, had already passed the Avar, and the promised grain had not arrived.
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The Avar Chief was dry in his manner to strangers; and who can wonder at it?
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The Hun and the Avar had been driven back or swept away from the earth.
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When the sun rose, Orestes was still sitting and drinking with an Avar chief.
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She knows now that somebody else pushed her into this Avar, and that she is fighting for somebody else's cause.
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