570-589 Slavs Invade Balkans, Persians Capture Syria
In this 20 year period, King Alboin of the Lombards (pictured) was murdered in 572 by his wife, the Gepid princess, Rosamund.
In the 580s, the eastern empire with the Franks as allies mounted a counter-offensive against Lombards in Italy, but a far greater danger was the advance of the Indo-European Slavs.
The Indo-European Slavs had invaded the Balkans from the North and, like the Germans and Celts before them, they emerged from the western region of Russia and the Ukraine, pushing to the South and North the previous occupants of eastern Europe.
Within fifty years, the Slavs deluged the Balkans, driving Latin speakers into the mountains.
Around this time, too, the Eastern Empire and the Persians were engaged in a monumental struggle. The Persians captured Syria, Palestine and Egypt.
And, another ecclesiastical curse -- the cult of Arianism, popular among the Germanic people -- was finally wiped out.
In the 580s, the eastern empire with the Franks as allies mounted a counter-offensive against Lombards in Italy, but a far greater danger was the advance of the Indo-European Slavs.
The Indo-European Slavs had invaded the Balkans from the North and, like the Germans and Celts before them, they emerged from the western region of Russia and the Ukraine, pushing to the South and North the previous occupants of eastern Europe.
Within fifty years, the Slavs deluged the Balkans, driving Latin speakers into the mountains.
Around this time, too, the Eastern Empire and the Persians were engaged in a monumental struggle. The Persians captured Syria, Palestine and Egypt.
And, another ecclesiastical curse -- the cult of Arianism, popular among the Germanic people -- was finally wiped out.
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