Avar

Avar(s) or AVAR may refer to:

Peoples and states

  • Avars (Caucasus), a modern Northeast Caucasian-speaking people in the North Caucasus, Dagestan, Russia
    • Avar language, the modern Northeast Caucasian language spoken by the Avars of the North Caucasus, Dagestan, Russia
    • Avar Khanate, a former country of the Caucasus Avars
  • Pannonian Avars, a medieval nomadic people who lived in Central and Eastern Europe of unknown ethnic origin
    • Avar Khaganate, the country of the Pannonian Avars in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Uar, a medieval Central Asian people also known as the Hephthalites, possibly linked with the Pannonian Avars
  • Rouran Khaganate, a state of nomadic Mongolian tribes from the late 4th century until the middle 6th century, possibly linked with the Pannonian Avars

Settlements in Iran

  • Avar, Qazvin
  • Avar, Razavi Khorasan
  • Avar, Tehran

In science and technology

Other uses

  • Average value at risk, a coherent risk measure in finance
  • Avari (Middle-earth), a group of Elves in the Lord of the Rings fictional universe
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