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| | Banat's Historical Chronology for the First Millennium A.D. |
 | | the first certification of the slavs in Banat [Theophylaktos Simokattes, Historiae, VI, 3-4]. |
 | | Another source [contemporary Theophylaktos Simokattes] mention 17200 prisoners: 3000 avars, 8000 sclavini, and 6200 "other barbarians" [probably gepidae, kutrigur, etc.]. |
 | | Because we do not know anything about the ethnicity of these "other barbarians", suppositions like "Latin presence in the Banat is almost inexistent" are just wild assumptions without any historical background. |
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