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  2. Hungarians - Wikipedia

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    Hungarians, also known as Magyars (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑː r z / MAG-yarz; [25] Hungarian: magyarok [ˈmɒɟɒrok]), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.

  3. Magyar tribes - Wikipedia

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    The Magyar or Hungarian tribes (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑːr / MAG-yar, Hungarian: magyar törzsek) or Hungarian clans were the fundamental political units within whose framework the Hungarians (Magyars) lived, before the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin and the subsequent establishment of the Principality of Hungary.

  4. Name of Hungary - Wikipedia

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    Hungary, the name in English for the European country, ... The name derives from the tradition that the first Hungarian king, ...

  5. Hungarian prehistory - Wikipedia

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    Ibn Rusta was the first to record a variant of the Hungarians' self-designation; (al-Madjghariyya). [1] According to a scholarly theory, the ethnonym "Magyar" is a composite word. [ 4 ] The first part of the word (magy-) is said to have been connected to several recorded or hypothetical words, including the Mansi's self-designation (māńśi ...

  6. Hungary - Wikipedia

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    It was gifted to Saint Stephen, the first King of Hungary, who converted the nation to Christianity. In 972, the ruling prince (Hungarian: fejedelem) Géza of the Árpád dynasty officially started to integrate Hungary into Christian Western Europe. [61] His son Saint Stephen I became the first King of Hungary after defeating his pagan uncle ...

  7. Origin of the Székelys - Wikipedia

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    Scholarly theories about the origin of the Székelys (a subgroup of the Hungarian people) can be divided into four main groups.Medieval chronicles unanimously stated that the Székelys were descended from the Huns and settled in the Carpathian Basin centuries before the Hungarians (or Magyars) conquered the territory in the late 9th century.

  8. Magyarization - Wikipedia

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    Magyarization (UK: / ˌ m æ dʒ ər aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən / US: / ˌ m ɑː dʒ ər ɪ-/, also Hungarianization; Hungarian: magyarosítás [ˈmɒɟɒroʃiːtaːʃ]), after "Magyar"—the Hungarian autonym—was an assimilation or acculturation process by which non-Hungarian nationals living in the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, adopted the Hungarian national ...

  9. History of Hungary - Wikipedia

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    Hungary in its modern (post-1946) borders roughly corresponds to the Great Hungarian Plain (the Pannonian Basin) in Central Europe.. During the Iron Age, it was located at the crossroads between the cultural spheres of Scythian tribes (such as Agathyrsi, Cimmerians), the Celtic tribes (such as the Scordisci, Boii and Veneti), Dalmatian tribes (such as the Dalmatae, Histri and Liburni) and the ...