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Encyclopedia > Battle of Wogastisburg
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 (? – 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. ... Bohemia. ... Kadaň (German: Kaaden) is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. ... Bohemia. ... Logo Bratislava (until 1919: PreÅ¡porok 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. ... The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... There are communes and places that have the name Burk in Germany: in Germany Burk (Landkreis Ansbach), in the Ansbach district, Bavaria A part of Bautzen, Saxony A part of Forchheim, Bavaria A part of Marktoberdorf, in the Ostallgäu district, Bavaria A part of Seeg, in the Ostallgäu district, Bavaria... There are communes and places that have the name Forchheim in Germany: Municipalities Forchheim (Oberfranken) , in the Forchheim district, Bavaria Forchheim am Kaiserstuhl , in the Emmendingen, Baden-Württemberg Subdivisions Forchheim (Beilngries) Forchheim (Döbeln) Forchheim bei Karlsruhe, a locality in Rheinstetten Forchheim (Erzgebirge) , a locality of Pockau Forchheim (Oberpfalz) , a locality... Oberfranken (Upper Franconia) is a Regierungsbezirk (administrative region) of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Croatian and Serbian: Beč Romanian: Viena, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya, Russian: Вена) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... The Danube bend at Visegrád is a popular destination of tourists The Danube (German: Donau, Slovak: Dunaj, Hungarian: Duna, Slovenian: Donava, Croatian: Dunav, Serbian: Дунав/Dunav, , Bulgarian: Дунав (Dunav), Romanian: Dunăre, Ukrainian: , Latin: Danuvius), all ultimately derived from the PIE *dānu, meaning river or stream, is Europes second...


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".


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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 first two were quite successful, but the main fighting force was defeated in a three-day battle near Wogastisburg.
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.
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