Cultural make up of the Pannonian Plain without the Magyar Migration

Justinianus

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As it says on the tin.

What would happen? Would the Croatians overrun the area or the Bulgarians?

What about the Romanians in Modern Day Transylvania?
 
There’s an outside chance that the Pannonian Romance-speaking Keszthely culture survives, since they might have lingered until the Magyar conquests.
 

Justinianus

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There’s an outside chance that the Pannonian Romance-speaking Keszthely culture survives, since they might have lingered until the Magyar conquests.
I doubt they'd last for much longer than that though. They seemed to have been a very small minority even in their heyday.
 
I thought the area was divided between the West Slavs and Souths Slavs.

I don't know about the Romance population but they may be absorbed by the Slavs. Romanians not counted.
 

jocay

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Prior to the Magyars, the Avars ruled over a predominately Slavic population in the Pannonian Basin. Like the Slavic Bulgarians took their name from the originally Turkic overlords, the Slavic ethnic group might identify themselves as Avars. It wouldn't be so clear cut - nothing was, especially in eastern Europe. In the west, there would be a growing presence of German settlers pushing eastward, whether through invasion or invitation by the Avars. As for the Keszthely culture, their numbers seemed way too limited for any chance of long-term survival as a distinct cultural presence to the present day.
 
Transdanubia:
  • Raba valley: Slovaks
  • Balaton region : Pannoniam Romans
  • Baranya: Croats.
Matra, Buk regions: Slovaks
Alfold: originally Avars, east of the Tisza Transylvanian Salvs. Later incoming of Cumans.
 
No Hungarian migrations likely saves Great Moravia for the immediate future, and the portions of Pannonia still held by the Franks were notably settled with Carantanians (proto-Slovenes). So Pannonia would likely be firmly Slavic and Catholic.* It would be interesting to see where the West-South linguistic divide ends up falling (if it even does) without the Magyars splitting the south slavs off.

*certainly pockets of Germans would form much like OTL
 
No Hungarian migrations likely saves Great Moravia for the immediate future, and the portions of Pannonia still held by the Franks were notably settled with Carantanians (proto-Slovenes). So Pannonia would likely be firmly Slavic and Catholic.* It would be interesting to see where the West-South linguistic divide ends up falling (if it even does) without the Magyars splitting the south slavs off.

*certainly pockets of Germans would form much like OTL
Pannonia would have more Romanians and Romanians might end up as Catholics.
 
Mostly Slavic most likely.
The Avars were essentially assimilating and a form of Slavic was the lingua franca.
They'll be a dialect continuum between West and South Slavic with the common standard probably called Avarsko or Avorsko etc.
Catholic seems most probable to me.
 
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