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# {1-781.} The Period of Avar Rule

In Archäologische Denkmäler der Awarenzeit in Mitteleuropa (Budapest, 1956), D. CSALLÁNY presents an incomplete list of Avar sites in Transylvania. K. HOREDT provides an overview in 'Avarii în Transilvania' (SCIV 7: 1956) and 'Das Awarenproblem in Rumänien' (Studijne Zvesti, Nyitra, 16: 1968). In the latter work, he lists twenty-seven 'authentic' sites. His datings are not reliable: he sets the beginning of the Avar period at ca. 670, which is a hundred years after the fact, and most of the sites that he takes account of date from the late Avar period.

The essential sources on early Avar pressing moulds from Fönlak, Erzsébetváros, and Korond are by N. FETTICH: 'Az avarkori műipar Magyarországon - Das Kunstgewerbe der Awarenzeit in Ungarn' (Arch. Hung. I, Budapest, 1926)

The most recent summary of Avar history and archaeology is I. BÓNA's 'Die Awaren: Ein asiatisches Reitervolk an der mittleren Donau', in Awaren in Europa (Frankfurt am Main-Nürnberg, 1985).