Editing Timeline of Slovenian history (section)

== sixth century ==
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| 550 || || The first wave of [[Slavic settlement of Eastern Alps|Slavic settlement]], originating from [[Moravia]], reaches the Eastern Alps region and the western margin of the Pannonian plain.
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| 568 || || [[Lombards]] leave the territories of modern Slovenia and the borderlands of Pannonia, moving into [[Italy]].
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| 585 || || The second and most important wave of Slavic settlement takes place. [[Slavs]] and [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]] settle in Eastern [[Alps]] ([[Julian Alps]], [[Karavanke]]), eventually occupying an area more than twice the size of today's Slovenia. Slavic settlement is proven by the decline of dioceses in the Eastern Alpine region in second half of the sixth century, as well as in the change of population, the material culture and the linguistic identity of the area.
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