The Antes raided the Balkan provinces of the Empire in 518 and, again, in the 530s. However, following a number of military campaigns north of the Danube, Emperor Justinian adopted the epithet Anticus (first mentioned in novel 17 of November 533), which appears in inscriptions until 565, as well as in the intitulature of all sixth- and early seventh-century emperors until Heraclius (last mentioned in novel 22 of 1 May 612). The Antes were at war with the Sclavenes in the 540s and again in the 580s. In 545, the Antes became imperial allies (ένσποδοι), as Justinian offered them an abandoned city named Turris located north of the Danube, in addition to stipends, provided that they would block access to the Danube to raiders from the steppe. The Antes remained loyal allies until 602 and they provided troops for Justinian's Gothic war in Italy, despite constant conflict with other steppe groups, especially with the Cutrigurs. When the Avars established their power over the steppes north of the Black Sea in the 560s, the Antes were one the first targets of their devastating raids. It is an Avar expedition of 602 that may have put an end to the emerging Antian polity [Theophylact Simocatta VIII.5.13], for after that the Antes disappear from all written sources.

Source: International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online. A Supplement to LexMA-Online. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005

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Florin Curta, 'Antes, people’, in International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online. A Supplement to LexMA-Online. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005, in Brepolis Medieval Encyclopaedias <http://www.brepolis.net/bme> [ 7 December 2006]