Wandel durch Migration. Der Ostalpenraum im Frühmittelalter als Fallstudie. In: H. Geisler (ed.), Wandel durch Migration? Arbeiten zur Archäologie Süddeutschlands 29, Büchenbach 2016 (original) (raw)
From the 6th to the 9th c. A.D. the Eastern Alps underwent various transformation processes and developed from a Roman province through the Slavonic principality of Carantania to a Carolingian comitatus. Migration strongly influenced this transformation. At the end of late Antiquity the Roman elite vanished, be it due to emigration or because they impoverished and lost their high social status. Around 600 A.D. Slavonic people migrated to the Eastern Alps, and the region was described as a Slavonic province. It is unlikely that masses of new, Slavonic people came here nor that the country had entirely been conquered militarily by Slavonic troops. During the 8th c. Western elites came to the Eastern Alps for religious, political and economical reasons. In the 9th c. the region became a Carolingian county and more western elite families moved here along with members of the lower parts of society that worked on the elites‘ properties.
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