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After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Latinized population of Pannonia was pretty heavily reduced, limited to some few thousand living in fortified settlements around Lake Balaton. While a lot of these remaining Romanized Pannonians were assimilated by subsequent waves of invaders, it would seem that a few of these settlements survived and thrived under the (Pseudo-)Avars, at least for a couple of hundred years. Once the Avars vanished from history, though, so did the Romance Pannonians and their language - apparently the Avars kept them around as an artisan class, and without the Avars they lost their patrons and ultimately were assimilated.

With a POD no earlier than AD 500, what would it take for Pannonian Romance language and culture, or a descendant thereof, to become the dominant culture in the region? Can we get to a point where we have Latinized speakers of Pannonian Romance as the ruling class?
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