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Julian was the first in centuries to bring to Europe valid information about Hungarians living in Magna Hungaria, which contributes much to research on Hungarian history. He was also the first European traveler to gather valid information on Asia , and his descriptions are of great importance from the geographical aspect, which gave essential ...
After defeating the Persians in battle on the banks of the Tigris and surrounding the capital, Ctesiphon, Julian soon became convinced of his inability to take the city. The apparent impregnability of Ctesiphon, along with his desire to defeat Shapur the Persian king in battle, resolved Julian to abandon the siege. The river fleet which had ...
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.
This category includes historical battles in which states of Hungary (10th century–present) participated. Please see the category guidelines for more information. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battles involving Hungary .
During World War I, conflict on the Asian continent and the islands of the Pacific included naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, the anti-Russian Central Asian revolt of 1916 in Russian Turkestan and the Ottoman-supported Kelantan rebellion in British Malaya.
A map depicting Péter Veres's theory of the Magyars' Urheimat and of their migrations, including their staying in the region of the Kuban River. In the 1230s, Friar Julian went to search for the Magyars' legendary homeland Magna Hungaria after reading about it and a group of Magyars who had remained there in a Hungarian chronicle.
In August 1526, the Ottomans under Suleiman appeared in southern Hungary, and he marched nearly 100,000 Turkish-Islamic troops into Hungary's heartland. The Hungarian army, numbering around 26,000, met the Turks at Mohács. Though the Hungarian troops were well-equipped and well-trained, they lacked a good military leader, while reinforcements ...
Battle of Arcadiopolis: the Byzantines defeat the united Rus', Bulgarian and Hungarian armies. [188] [189] 970s, Early German and Italian missionaries came to Hungary. Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians—Árpád's great-grandson—is baptised, but he does not fully abandon the veneration of pagan deities. [190] 973, Easter