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Comment
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Fredegar, IV 72 describes that in 631/2 a group of Bulgars under an Alciocus flees first from the Avar empire and then from the Bavarians to a duke Walluc who ruled in the marca Vinedorum. The location of this marca is not clear. At some point in the years 662-671, according to Paulus Diaconus V. 29, a group of Bulgars under the lead of a very similary named man (Alzeco) moves from an unknown place to northern Italy.
This lead to the common identification of the marca Vinedorum as a precedessor of Carantania. (W. Pohl, The Avars, p. 318-321). We do not know at all the size of the 7th century Caranthania, but it is most likely that the centre was around the Roman civitas Virunum, the later Zollfeld and Maria Saal, and the roman civitas and late antique bishopric of Teurnia, later around Spittal/Drau.
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Approximate localisation
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