This book was written as a result of a request from, and with the purpose to be published in, the United States. The manuscript has been read by Csanád Bálint, Director of the Archaeological Institute of the Hungárián Academy of Sciences, Professor Peter B. Golden of Rutgers University, and Professor Thomas S. Noonan of the University of Minnesota; I wish to express my thanks for their trouble and invaluable comments. The book, however, for reasons other than professional, was not to come out in the United States and is published now, in the form it was written in 1991, by the Szegedi Középkorász Műhely [Szeged Medievalist Workshop], Since research on the book was closed and the manuscript itself completed in the spring of 1991, I have not bee able to use works published after that. This is alsó the place where I want to thank my colleagues, György Nóvák, who translated the book, Edward Kelly, who read the translation, Ferenc Piti and Zsolt Hunyadi, who compiled the Index, and Tamás Dávid, responsible for the technical execution of the book, for their cooperation.

Contents

Preface
The appearance of the Hungarians in written sources
The ethnogenesis of the Hungarian people
Where were the Hungarians before 830 A.D.
The Turkic loan-words of Hungarian and archaeology
The names of the Hungarians
The Hun tradition of the Hungarians
The Hungarians` departure from Magna Hungaria
Chapter 38 of DAI and the Arabic sources
Levedia and Levedi
The Legend of the wondrous hind and archaeology
Khazar–Hungarian relations
The Kangar–Savard war
The Qabars and Etelköz
Álmos and the sacral kingship
On the eve of the Hungarian Conquest
The Hungarian Conquest
Maps
Index

Oldalszám: 229

Kiadási év: 1996