Historical Overview
Before the arrival of the Hungarians
During the first millennium BC, tribes of horsemen from Iran, the Scythians, and also Indo-European tribes (Celts, Illyrian and Thracian) practicing a lifestyle more or less sedentary.
In the last period of expansion of the Roman Empire, the Carpathian basin belongs to the Mediterranean civilization, and Greco-Roman.
Then arise in this region of the Germanic peoples and nomadic Turks (Huns and Avars) attacked eastwards.
Since the early third century AD, Rome is restricted to the defensive against them, then, about the year 430, it folds before the attacks of the Huns and finally abandons his province in the Carpathian basin, Pannonia.
The King of the Huns, Attila, reign in the region of the Tisza, a huge great empire.
After his death, the Hun empire disintegrated and its territory was again divided between the Germanic tribes. Their hegemony was soon shattered by the arrival of the Avars.
Founded in the late sixth century, that empire succumbed to the campaigns of Charlemagne and the attacks of the Bulgarians of the Danube.
A group of scientists, constantly renewed stream of migration of people had from the seventh century, led the Hungarians into the Carpathian Basin.
The Hongois fought against attacks Petchenegs Turks and finding a new home, they head to the Carpathian Basin.
According to legend, before the great company that was the occupation of the new country, the leaders of the seven Hungarian tribes or Magyars had, according to Oriental custom, sealed their alliance with their blood collected in a cup, and elect among themselves a Prince Árpád was that it lead to a successful conclusion the important task of transferring cash Hungarian people when half a million souls in the Carpathian Basin in good order and, according to the testimony of the archaeological remains, without too many sacrifices .
Hungarians continue their lifestyle, supplemented by livestock farming, but their warriors like the Normans and Vikings, harassment for several decades the people of Europe by great battles and looting, as the Emperor Otto will stop them in the battle of Augsburg in the year 955.
The descendants of Arpad are obliged to adopt the European model of a sedentary lifestyle.
At the time this means Christianity and the State organization.
The great-grand-son of Árpád, Géza (d. 997) gets himself baptized.
He sacrifices to their gods Paden, but he educates his son, the future Saint Etienne, to form him a true Christian ruler.
Some dates
896-L038: The installation of the Hungarian kingdom and Saint Etienne
997A L038: It was the reign of King Stephen I.
L038-l30l: The era of the kings of the Árpád dynasty
l077-l096: The successor of Stephen, was Ladislas
l096-lll6: The successor of Stephen, I was Coloman
L222: A medieval document called the Golden Bull was issued L222
by King Andrew II.
L235-L270: It rightly Béla IV was named “the second founder of the kingdom.”
l30l: In this year the House of Árpád died.
l30l-L490: The State Medieval Hungarian
L335: Charles I calls the kings of Bohemia and Poland, it was the “meeting of Visegrad Royal”
l307-l342: Hungary is the reign of Charles I..
l342-L382: Hungary is the reign of Louis I.
L387-l437: The country is ruled by Sigismund of Luxembourg, son of Louis the Great.
l396: The crusading army of Sigismund was defeated at the Battle of Nicopolis.
l458: Matthew the son of János Hunyadi was elected king of Hungary.
L490: The death of one of the greatest monarchs of medieval Hungary, King Mathias.
L490-L526: The decline of the medieval Hungarian state and the Ottoman conquest.
L490: The death of one of the greatest monarchs of medieval Hungary, King Mathias.
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