Preface

pp.：  9 – 10

Introduction (Florin Curta)

pp.：  11 – 22

Confl ict and coexistence: the local population of the Carpathian Basin under Avar rule (sixth to seventh century) (Tivadar Vida)

pp.：  23 – 56

Avar chronology revisited, and the question of ethnicity in the Avar qaganate (Peter Stadler)

pp.：  57 – 92

New remarks on the fl ow of Byzantine coins in Avaria and Walachia during the second half of the seventh century (Péter Somogyi)

pp.：  93 – 160

Bulgars in the Lower Danube region. A survey of the archaeological evidence and of the state of current research (Uwe Fiedler)

pp.：  161 – 246

Avar-age metalworking technologies in the Carpathian Basin (sixth to eighth century) (Orsolya Heinrich-Tamaska)

pp.：  247 – 272

Two worlds, one hoard: what do metal fi nds from the foreststeppe belt speak about? (Bartłomiej Szymon Szmoniewski)

pp.：  273 – 306

Th e earliest Avar-age stirrups, or the "stirrup controversy" revisited (Florin Curta)

pp.：  307 – 336

A note on the "Hungarian sabers" of medieval Bulgaria (Valeri Iotov)

pp.：  337 – 348

Danube Bulgaria and Khazaria as part of the Byzantine oikoumene (Veselina Vachkova)

pp.：  349 – 372

From 'steppe' to Christian empire and back: Bulgaria between 800 and 1100 (Tsvetelin Stepanov)

pp.：  373 – 388

A broken mirror: the Kıpçak world in the thirteenth century (Dimitri Korobeinikov)

pp.：  389 – 422

The Cuman bishopric—genesis and evolution (Victor Spinei)

pp.：  423 – 466

References

pp.：  467 – 492

List of contributors

pp.：  493 – 494

Index

pp.：  495 – 502