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Fehérlófia (lit.The Son of the White Horse or The Son of the White Mare) is a Hungarian folk tale published by László Arany [] in Eredeti Népmesék (1862). [1] Its main character is a youth named Fehérlófia, a "Hungarian folk hero".
The origin of the term "Hungary", the ethnonym of the Hungarian tribal alliance, is uncertain. According to one view, following the description in the 13th-century chronicle, Gesta Hungarorum, the federation was called "Hetumoger" (modern Hungarian: hét magyar, lit.
The Hungarian alphabet (Hungarian: magyar ábécé, pronounced [ˈmɒɟɒr ˈaːbeːt͡seː]) is an extension of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Hungarian language. ...
Hungarian folk music is a prominent part of the national identity and continues to play a major part in the country’s music.It retains Turkic influences [8] [9] [10] and tends to have a strong dactylic rhythm due to the Hungarian language consistently putting stress on the first syllable of each word.
The Old Hungarian script or Hungarian runes (Hungarian: Székely-magyar rovás, 'székely-magyar runiform', or rovásírás) is an alphabetic writing system used for writing the Hungarian language.
The coat of arms of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország címere) was adopted on 11 July 1990, [3] after the end of communist rule. The arms have been used before, both with and without the Holy Crown of Hungary, sometimes as part of a larger, more complex coat of arms, and its elements date back to the Middle Ages.
In Hungarian tradition, it originated as the clan symbol used in the 9th and 10th centuries by the ruling Árpád dynasty. [16] The Árpád dynasty was the ruling dynasty of the Principality of Hungary in the 9th and 10th centuries and of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1000 to 1301.
Upper Hungary is the usual English translation of Felvidék (literally: "Upland"), the Hungarian term for the area that was historically the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary, now mostly present-day Slovakia.