Avars keep Pannonia. What then happens to the Avars?

Assuming that the Avars manage to keep the Franks out of their lands and the Magyars do not migrate in what could happen with the avars?

I'm assuming eventual adoption of Christianity. However i'm wondering if what happens in terms of Slavicization of the Bolghars happens with the Avars? Or is that an entirely different situation and instead we have a christian Turkic civilization in that area instead?
 
Avars surely will convert to Christianity. It is another issue then what happen for their language. It might remain Turkic or changes as Germanic or Slavic language.
 
Avars would most likely follow bulgarian path and speak a slavic langauge, as it was lingua franca of their state in later periods, and language of many of their subjects, and their material culture over time fused into avar-slavic mix.

It would be interesting to see development of slavic languages, now that the south slavic languages wouldn't be separated from western and eastern slavs by non-slavic entity.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannonian_Avars#Anthropological_evidence Avars weren't an ethnic or really a national identity. They, like lots of these steppe short-lived empires, were a federation of different identities and once they broke up no one was an Avar anymore. I don't see a way for the Avar identity to continue. There's not even evidence they were Turkic.

That is very interesting.

That does fit the mold with most of the peoples who had invaded that area aside the Hungarians.

That link though seems to claim they may have been culturally something central asian though.

It seems though pretty much the area would end up being slavic.
 
Most of the population ruled by the Avars was Slavic, so they would most likely be Slavicized (just like the Bulgars). The Slavs had a lot of assimilating inertia at this point in history, to boot.

If the *SlAvars go Christian (which is likely), they'll probably gravitate towards Constantinople rather than Rome.
 
Most of the population ruled by the Avars was Slavic, so they would most likely be Slavicized (just like the Bulgars). The Slavs had a lot of assimilating inertia at this point in history, to boot.

If the *SlAvars go Christian (which is likely), they'll probably gravitate towards Constantinople rather than Rome.

That's what I imagined too, and probably they will gain more impetus to convert if the Byzantine Empire experiences a ressurgence like it did IOTL during the Macedonian Dynasty, which rather coincided with the domino effect that converted the Bulgars and South Slavic peoples to Christianity under the Constantinopolitan sphere.
 
Most of the population ruled by the Avars was Slavic, so they would most likely be Slavicized (just like the Bulgars). The Slavs had a lot of assimilating inertia at this point in history, to boot.

If the *SlAvars go Christian (which is likely), they'll probably gravitate towards Constantinople rather than Rome.

Yeah. IIRC some accounts have the lingua franca being a Slavic dialect
 
Wonder if you could get a (slavicized) Avar dynasty on the Byzantine throne at some point? Being converted to Orthodox Christianity didn't prevent the Bulgarians and Serbs from fighting wars with the *Romans and plotting to take Constantinople for themselves.
 
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