| Battle of Wogastisburg | | Date: | 631 | | Location: | Wogastisburg | | Result: | Slavic victory | | | Combatants | | Slavs | Austrasians | | Commanders | | King Samo | Dagobert I | According to the contemporary Chronicle of Fredegar, the battle of Wogastisburg was a battle between Slavs under Samo and Franks under King Dagobert I in 631. The Frankish armies were advancing the area of Slavic tribal union in three streams - Alamanni, Langobards, and Austrasian Franks. The first two were quite successful, but the main fighting force was defeated in a three-day battle near Wogastisburg. Events Battle of Wogastisburg between Slavs led by Samo and Dagobert I, king of the Franks Births Deaths Categories: 631 ...
King Samo (? – 658) was a merchant born in the Senonian country (Senonago) (probably todays Sens in France). ...
Dagobert I (c. ...
The Chronicle of Fredegar is a chronicle that recounts the events of Frankish Gaul from 584 to around 641, although a number of later authors have continued the history to the coronation of Charlemagne and his brother Carloman on 9 October 768. ...
The Slavic peoples are the most numerous ethnic and linguistic body of peoples in Europe. ...
King Samo (? â 658) was a merchant born in the Senonian country (Senonago) (probably todays Sens in France). ...
For other uses, see Franks (disambiguation). ...
Dagobert I (c. ...
Events Battle of Wogastisburg between Slavs led by Samo and Dagobert I, king of the Franks Births Deaths Categories: 631 ...
The Alamanni, Allemanni, or Alemanni were an alliance of warbands formed from Germanic tribes, first mentioned by Dio Cassius when they fought Caracalla in 213. ...
The Lombards (Latin Langobardi, from which the alternative name Longobards found in older English texts), were a Germanic people originally from Scandinavia that entered the late Roman Empire. ...
Austrasia & Neustria Austrasia formed the north-eastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day eastern France, western Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. ...
Unfortunatelly the site of the battle cannot be successfully located because the source, Fredegar's chronicle, gives no geographical specifications. Thus a lot of places claim to be connected with the battle (usually based on linguistic parallels and some excavations), such as Rubín hill near Podbořany (Bohemia), Úhošť hill near Kadaň (Bohemia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Staffelberg near Bad Staffelstein (Bavaria), Burk near Forchheim (Oberfranken), Vienna, and other places along the middle Danube etc. Rubin can refer to the following people: Alan Rubin, American musician Chanda Rubin (b. ...
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Logo Bratislava (until 1919: Prešporok in Slovak, Pressburg in German and English, Pozsony in Hungarian, Požun in Croatian) is the capital of Slovakia and the countrys largest city, with a population of some 450,000. ...
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Oberfranken (Upper Franconia) is a Regierungsbezirk (administrative region) of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. ...
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In fact, there is absolutely no conclusive proof for any of these locations and it is even possible that the term Wogastisburg referred only to a kind of a temporary "camp". |