Editing Gepids (section)

=== Fall and last records ===

The Gepids were finally overrun by the [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]] in the 567 [[Lombard–Gepid War (567)|Lombard-Gepid war]]. Many Gepids followed Alboin to Italy in 568 according to [[Paul the Deacon|Paulus Diaconus]], but many remained in the area of their old kingdom.
 
In 630, [[Theophylact Simocatta]] reported that the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] Army entered the territory of the [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]] and attacked a Gepid feast, capturing 30,000 Gepids (they met no Avars).{{sfn|Kharalambieva|2010|p=209}}

Recent excavation by the [[Tisza]] River at [[Szolnok]] brought up a Gepid nobleman from an Avar period grave who was also wearing Turkic-Avar pieces next to the traditional Germanic clothes in which he was buried.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

In the eighth century, [[Paul the Deacon]] lists Gepid, Bulgarian, Sarmatian, Pannonian, Suabian and Norican villages in Italy but we do not know if Paul means in his own day or is simply lifting the phrase from an older source.<ref>Leif Inge Ree Petersen, ''Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD): Byzantium, the West and Islam'', BRILL, 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BRGaAAAAQBAJ&dq=Paul+the+Deacon+lists+Gepid%2C+Bulgarian%2C+Sarmatian%2C+Pannonian%2C+Suabian+and+Norican+villages+in+Italy&pg=PA179 p. 179].</ref>