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==To Hungary==

==To Hungary==

Around 500 AD the Magyars moved to the steppes north of the Caucasus mountains, where they remained about 400 years. The false notion is widely held that they were part of Attila's Huns. In 896 AD, under Prince Árpád, they entered what was to be their permanent European home, that is, Hungary.

Around 500 AD the Magyars moved from Asia to the steppes north of the Caucasus mountains, where they remained about 400 years. The false notion is widely held that they were part of Attila's Huns.  

The Magyar horsemen soon began to raid across central Europe; in 933 they were defeated by Germans under Henry the Fowler, and in 955 they suffered an even more serious defeat at the hands of Henry's son, Otto the Great. The Magyar Duke Géza (r. 972-997) began to convert his people to Christianity; the task was finished by Géza's son and successor, St. Stephen (r. 997-1038), who also received a royal crown from Pope Sylvester (1000). Stephen enacted a body of laws, and gave Hungary the unified political structure it was to retain in one form or another from his time on.

They were nomadic horsemen who moved into the grassy plain within the curve of the Carpathian Mountains in central Europe now called [[Hungary]] in 896 AD, under Prince Árpád. This area became Hungary, and the language became modern Hungarian.

 

Over the next 60 or so years they raided into [[Germany]], north and central [[France]] and  [[Italy]]. Their superior horsemanship proved unbeatable on the plains, but they were vulnerable in the mountains or when returning home with their booty, a fact not lost on their victims who began attacking them on mountain passes and at river crossings. In 933 they were defeated by Germans under Henry the Fowler, and in 955 they were finally defeated by the German [[Otto I]] at the battle of Lechfield. Their leaders were killed and they settled back into their plains.

 

The Magyar Duke Géza (r. 972-997) began to convert his people to Christianity; the task was finished by Géza's son and successor, St. Stephen (r. 997-1038), who also received a royal crown from Pope Sylvester (1000). Stephen enacted a body of laws, and gave Hungary the unified political structure it was to retain in one form or another from his time on.

==Social structure==

==Social structure==

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