The Magyar Raids: Fact and Fable

Hungarian Conquest of the Carpathian Basin, from the Chronicon Pictum, 1360.

What is important is that the movement of some 200,000 men, women and children, and maybe more, with their herds of horses; cows; camels, sheep and goats and even pigs was done in an orderly, organized fashion that needs further research.

The Role of the Byzantine Church in Medieval Hungary

Stephen I of Hungary

The necessity for a change of country by the Magyars was a direct consequence of the policy of the Byzantine court.

Warfare and Society in the Carolingian Ostmark

Very detailed miniature of the entrance of the Hungarians into the Carpathian basin, and some subsequent events from the ChroniconPictum

Warfare and Society in the Carolingian Ostmark By Charles R. Bowlus Austrian History Yearbook, vol.14 (1978) Introduction: The relationship between military and social organization has long been a topic of major concern and debate among scholars specializing in the history of the European Middle Ages. It is a topic of importance, for, as we who live in […]

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