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[1] Friar Julian's journey. Julian named the old country Magna Hungaria or Great Hungary. He became aware of stories about the Tatars, who were the enemies of the eastern Magyars and Bulgars. Two years after the original journey, Julian returned to Magna Hungaria, only to find it had been devastated by the Mongol Tatars.
He is sometimes referred to as Julian the Philosopher. [4] A nephew of Constantine the Great, Julian was one of few in the imperial family to survive the purges and civil wars during the reign of Constantius II, his cousin. Julian became an orphan as a child after his father was executed in 337, and spent much of his life under Constantius's ...
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The migration of ancient Hungarians from Magna Hungaria to central Europe Magna Hungaria depicted on the Johannes Schöner's terrestrial globe (1523/24). Magna Hungaria (Latin: Magna Hungaria, Hungaria maior), literally "Great Hungary" or "Ancient Hungary", refers to the ancestral home of the Hungarians, whose identification is still subject to historiographical debate.
Academic historians call it "Historic Hungary". Greater Hungary (irredentism) , the full or partial territorial restoration of the Kingdom of Hungary, an official political goal of the Hungarian state between the two World Wars; the restoration of the unity of the territories of Kingdom of Hungary, the political goal of small marginalized ...
The Hungarian–Ottoman War (1366–1367) was the first confrontation between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans.The war ended with a Hungarian victory, as Louis I's armies defeated the Ottomans in a battle near Nicopolis, although the outcome of the battle is still questioned by Turkish sources.
The siege of Székesfehérvár also known as the siege of Stuhlweissenburg (French: Prise d'Albe-Royale, German: Belagerung von Stuhlweißenburg, Turkish: İstolni Belgrad) began on 4 September 1601 when an Imperial force sent by Holy Roman emperor Rudolf II, under the command of Frenchman Philippe Emmanuel de Lorraine, duc de Mercoeur, besieged the Hungarian fortress of Székesfehérvár ...
The earliest mention of the Székelys—a Hungarian-speaking community of free warriors—is in connection with the young king's first war against the Duchy of Bohemia. The Székelys lived in scattered groups along the borders, but they were moved to the easternmost regions of Transylvania in the 12th century. [ 105 ]