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| c. 550 |
| | | The Slavs arrive in the Balkans and settle in all parts of the region except Albania | |
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| c. 550 |
| | | Most of Spain is by now in the hands of the Visigoths, though for a while the Byzantines win back territories in the south | |
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| c. 550 |
| | | If there is any historical basis for the legendary King Arthur, it is as a Celtic chieftain resisting the Anglo-Saxons in the sixth century | |
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| 568 |
| | | The Lombards invade northern Italy, and within four years occupy it as far south as the Po | |
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| 569 |
| | | Fugitives from the Lombard invasion of northern Italy take refuge on islands in the Venetian lagoon - and become the founders of Venice | |
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| 592 |
| | | Pope Gregory I negotiates with the Lombards who are threatening Rome | |
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| c. 600 |
| | | The Scots, a tribal group of northern Ireland, extend their kingdom across the sea into Scotland | |
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| 634 |
| | | Within two years of the death of Muhammad, the Arabs surge north into the Syrian desert | |
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| 718 |
| | | Retreating from the Arab onslaught, the Visigoths establish a kingdom of last resort in the extreme north of Spain, in Asturias | |
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| c. 780 |
| | | The Anglo-Saxons have a name for the Celts west of Offa's dyke - wealas or Welsh, meaning foreigners | |
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