Siege of Constantinople Ends

Date: August 7, 626 • Location: Beyoğlu, Turkey

The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.

The Pannonian Avars or Carpathian Avars were a confederation of Eurasian nomads. They were also known as the Obri in the chronicles of the Rus, as the Abaroi or Varchonitai, or Pseudo-Avars in Byzantine sources, and as the Apar to the Göktürks. They established the Avar Khaganate, centred in the Carpathian Basin, which lasted from the late-6th to the early-9th centuries CE. They exerted influence and control over surrounding areas in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.