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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.
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The battle was the climax of Julian's campaigns in 355–57 to evict barbarian marauders from Gaul and to restore the Roman defensive line of fortifications along the Rhine, which had been largely destroyed during the Roman civil war of 350–53. In the years following his victory at Strasbourg, Julian was able to repair and garrison the Rhine ...
Hungarian victory 925 Battle of Drava River: Principality of Hungary: Duchy of Croatia: Croatian victory 933 Battle of Merseburg / Riade Henry the Fowler fights against the Hungarians, (Sächsische Weltchronik, 1270) Principality of Hungary: East Francia: German victory 934 Battle of W.l.n.d.r Hungarian warriors in Bulgaria (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
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 ...
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.
The decisive defeat by Suleiman the Magnificent of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia at the Battle of Mohács in 1526 brought about the fall of the Jagiellon dynasty. Louis, the adopted son of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, was killed in this battle and died childless at nineteen. Rival kings ruled for a time during the civil war that ...
The Battle of Lechfeld also known as the Second Battle of Lechfeld was a series of military engagements over the course of three days from 10–12 August 955 in which the Kingdom of Germany, led by King Otto I the Great, annihilated the Hungarian army led by Harka Bulcsú and the chieftains Lél and Súr.