Editing Slovakia (section)

=== Great invasions from the fourth to seventh centuries ===
In the second and third centuries CE, the [[Huns]] began to leave the [[Eurasian Steppe|Central Asian steppes]]. They crossed the Danube in 377&nbsp;CE and occupied [[Pannonia]], which they used for 75&nbsp;years as their base for launching looting-raids into Western Europe. However, [[Attila]]'s death in 453 brought about the disappearance of the [[Huns|Hunnic empire]]. In 568, a Turko-Mongol tribal confederacy, the [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]], conducted its invasion into the Middle Danube region. The Avars occupied the lowlands of the [[Pannonian Plain]] and established an empire dominating the [[Pannonian Basin|Carpathian Basin]].

In [[623]], the [[Early Slavs|Slavic population]] living in the western parts of Pannonia seceded from their empire after a revolution led by [[Samo]], a Frankish merchant.<ref name="Történeti Kronológia">{{cite book|last=Benda|first=Kálmán|title=Magyarország történeti kronológiája ''("The Historical Chronology of Hungary")''|publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó|year=1981|location=Budapest|page=44|isbn=963-05-2661-1}}</ref> After 626, the Avar power started a gradual decline<ref>Kristó, p.30–31</ref> but its reign lasted to 804.