The Era of the Hungarian Conquest |
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10 March 2026 - Erlenbach
Last Spring at the excellent Hungarian national museum in Budapest I picked up several books. The first detailed the history of the area that is now Hungary in the middle ages before the Hungarians showed up. László Révész's The Era of the Hungarian Conquest, however, starts in the Urals where the Hungarian language originated and follows them into Ukraine for the centuries they lived there and then across the Carpathian mountains onto the Pannonian plain. This period is marked by little written history about the people as Hungarians were still nomadic rather than sedentary and western chroniclers tended to copy descriptions of earlier eastern invaders rather than do the research. Fortunately their graves provide a multitude of information about them and their horses. The book is somewhat marred by its clear anti-slavic bias, but considering many of the histories of eastern Europe I have read are unabashedly pro-slavic it's probably worthwhile to hear an alternative voice. And being a book about a museum collection in addition to a history there are, of course, copious images.
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