Avars, a tribe of Huns who, driven from their home in the Altai Mts. by the Chinese, invaded the E. of Europe about 553, and committed ravages in it for about three centuries, till they were subdued by Charlemagne, and all but exterminated in 827.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Av`alon * Avatar`