Doina Ciobanu, The role of salt deposits in the political-military history of the Carpatho-Danubian space in the 1st-13th centuries. In: Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica, IX, Iași (2003)Arhivat în , la Wayback Machine. Around the year 700 one may notice the existence of an avar dominative centre, around Aiud. This centre is probably the result of some infiltration from the Pannonic Fields in Transylvania, through the valley of Mureș, one of the followed objectives being that of obtaining salt from the nearby salt mines (HOREDT, 1958, p. 98). “Starting with the 7th century one has discovered Avar graves spread along the middle stream of Mureș, from the point where the Arieș penetrates the Western Carpathians up to the point where Târnava flows into Mureș, on an area where the most important salt mines from Turda and Ocna Mureș are laying” (idem, 1975, 120). The Avars are the only migratory people that have built defence works, called “rings, made of wooden beams covered with grass swaths” (Ibidem, 120; RUSU 1975, 149). They were exercising their political andeconomical domination over the Romanic population from these power...
Doina Ciobanu, The role of salt deposits in the political-military history of the Carpatho-Danubian space in the 1st-13th centuries. In: Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica, IX, Iași (2003)Arhivat în , la Wayback Machine. Around the year 700 one may notice the existence of an avar dominative centre, around Aiud. This centre is probably the result of some infiltration from the Pannonic Fields in Transylvania, through the valley of Mureș, one of the followed objectives being that of obtaining salt from the nearby salt mines (HOREDT, 1958, p. 98). “Starting with the 7th century one has discovered Avar graves spread along the middle stream of Mureș, from the point where the Arieș penetrates the Western Carpathians up to the point where Târnava flows into Mureș, on an area where the most important salt mines from Turda and Ocna Mureș are laying” (idem, 1975, 120). The Avars are the only migratory people that have built defence works, called “rings, made of wooden beams covered with grass swaths” (Ibidem, 120; RUSU 1975, 149). They were exercising their political andeconomical domination over the Romanic population from these power...
