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Tamás Sipos, sports commentator and writer, former director of Hungarian television. László Szabados, Olympic bronze swimmer (4 x 200-meter freestyle relay) Miklós Szabados, 15-times world champion table tennis player. László Szabó (1917–1998), chess player. Ágnes Szávay (born 1988), tennis player.
Hungarians, also known as Magyars (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑː r z / MAG-yarz; [26] 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.
The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. According to European tradition, they were first reported living east of the Volga River, in an area that was part of Scythia at the time. [1] By 370 AD, the Huns had arrived on the Volga, causing the westwards ...
The Magyar or Hungarian tribes (/ ˈmæɡjɑːr / 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. [1][2]
A Hungarian chronicler known as Anonymus, author of Gesta Hungarorum, names the seven chieftains as: Álmos, father of Árpád. Előd, father of Szabolcs. Ond, father of Ete. Kend (Kond, Kund), father of Korcán (Kurszán) and Kaplon. Tas, father of Lél (Lehel) Huba. Tétény (Töhötöm), father of Horka. Most probably all persons on this ...
Mundzuk. Attila (/ əˈtɪlə / ə-TIL-ə[3] or / ˈætɪlə / AT-il-ə; [4] c. 406 – 453), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in early 453. He was also the leader of an empire consisting of Huns, Ostrogoths, Alans, and Gepids, among others, in Central and Eastern Europe.
Hungary had the third most gold medals in 1936, 1952, 1956, and 1960. See: All-time Olympic Games medal table (2008 data) Among the most famous Hungarians is footballer Ferenc Puskás (1927–2006). He scored 84 goals in 85 internationals for Hungary, and 511 goals in 533 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues.
The Kingdom of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyar Királyság), referred to retrospectively as the Regency and the Horthy era, existed as a country from 1920 to 1946 [a] under the rule of Miklós Horthy, Regent of Hungary, who officially represented the Hungarian monarchy. In reality there was no king, and attempts by King Charles IV to return to the ...