Kingdom of the Bavarians
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The Bavarians were a Germanic Tribe that created a Kingdom in the modern-day German State that takes its name from them. They were first mentioned in chronicles between 520 and 551. The Bavarians probably invaded the region of Bavaria during the time of the Gothic-Byzantine wars.
Establishment
January 552: In surviving records, the Bavarian name was first mentioned historically by the Franks in a list of peoples, prepared in c. 520 AD. The first document that also describes their location (east of the Swabians) is the History of the Goths by the historian Jordanes dating from 551 AD. Probably the Bavarians invaded Austria and southeastern Germany at the time of the Gothic-Byzantine wars.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
Were a series of revolts by the Kingdom of Thuringia against Frankish overlordship.
1.1.Independance of the Kingdom of the Thuringians
Was the secession of Thuringia after the death of the Frankish king Dagobert I.
January 639: In 641 he took part in the war against Duke Radulfo, to whom his father, Dagobert I had entrusted the defense of Thuringia, a frontier territory threatened by the Saxons, but who had rebelled after the death of Dagobert, in 639, creating an independent duchy .
Carinthia became a vassal of the Duchy of Bavaria.
January 744: In 743, Duke Odilo of Bavaria established vassalage over the Slavic princes of Carinthia, seeking protection from the Avar invaders. This marked the expansion of the Kingdom of the Bavarians into the region known as "Kärnet" on the map.
The last tribal stem duchy to be incorporated into the Frankish Kingdom was Bavaria in 788, after Duke Tassilo III had tried in vain to maintain his independence through an alliance with the Lombards.
January 789: The last tribal stem duchy to be incorporated was Bavaria in 788, after Duke Tassilo III had tried in vain to maintain his independence through an alliance with the Lombards. The conquest of the Lombard Kingdom by Charlemagne entailed the fall of Tassilo, who was deposed in 788. From that point, Bavaria was administrated by Frankish prefects.
January 632: Samo's Empire was a confederation of Slavic tribes, including Czechs, Slovaks, Sorbians and other western Slavic tribes along the Danube river, gathered around the Frankish merchant Samos.
January 659: Carantania, also known as Carentania, was a Slavic principality that emerged in the second half of the 7th century, in the territory of present-day southern Austria and north-eastern Slovenia. It was the predecessor of the March of Carinthia, created within the Carolingian Empire in 889.
January 741: When about 740 Prince Boruth asked the Bavarian duke Odilo for help against the pressing danger posed by Avar tribes from the east, Carantania lost its independence. Boruth's successors had to accept the overlordship of Bavaria.
Disestablishment
January 789: The last tribal stem duchy to be incorporated was Bavaria in 788, after Duke Tassilo III had tried in vain to maintain his independence through an alliance with the Lombards. The conquest of the Lombard Kingdom by Charlemagne entailed the fall of Tassilo, who was deposed in 788. From that point, Bavaria was administrated by Frankish prefects.
