The Treaty of Aachen, AD 812: The Origins and Impact on the Region between the Adriatic, Central, and Southeastern Europe

This year, the so-called Treaty of Aachen celebrates its 1200-year anniversary. To commemorate this symbolic moment, the Department of History (University of Zadar), the Department of History (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb), Department of Medieval Studies (Central European University, Budapest) and the Department of History (University of Split) organize an international workshop dealing with the Treaty "primarily in its ?regional," that is, an Adriatic ? Central Eastern ? Southeast European context. Term ?regional?, is therefore meant to cover primarily the lands between Northern Italy and the Eastern Alps, all the way through Pannonia from Central Europe eastwards towards the Balkan hinterlands, focusing on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. The chronological focal point of our interest is the time span from the 770s to the 860s, that is, the period between the Frankish conquest of the Lombard kingdom and their advance into the Avar-held regions of Central Pannonia in the second half of the 9th c.