Europe · The early medieval west
Principality of Hungary
895–1000
895–1000. Formed by the Magyar tribal confederation after the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (Honfoglalás) c. 895, led by Árpád, founder of the Árpád dynasty.
- Existed
- 895–1000
- Shown on the map
- AD 900–999
- Peak area
- 283k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
895–1000. Formed by the Magyar tribal confederation after the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (Honfoglalás) c. 895, led by Árpád, founder of the Árpád dynasty. Géza (r. c. 972–997), the grand prince, began Christianization and secured Bavarian missionaries. The principal narrative source, the ***Gesta Hungarorum* of the anonymous notary ("Anonymus," probably a chancellery cleric formerly in the service of Béla III, writing c. 1200–1230)**, is notoriously unreliable for the conquest: it names local opponents (Salan, Menumorut, Gelou, Glad) attested in no other source, and its account is entangled in the modern Hungarian-Romanian debate over the pre-conquest population of Transylvania. Scholars such as István Bóna attribute little reliability to it; C. A. Macartney called it "the most famous, the most obscure, the most exasperating and most misleading of all the early Hungarian texts."
Common questions
- What was the Principality of Hungary?
- 895–1000. Formed by the Magyar tribal confederation after the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (Honfoglalás) c. 895, led by Árpád, founder of the Árpád dynasty.
- When did the Principality of Hungary exist?
- The Principality of Hungary existed 895–1000. On this map it is drawn AD 900–999.
- How large was the Principality of Hungary?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Principality of Hungary covered about 283,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, academic works (John Fine on the Balkans, Halperin and Martin on Muscovy, Rady and Veszprémy on Hungary) and, for a few entries, the medieval Livonian Chronicle of Henry itself. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Principality of Hungary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Hungary
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