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The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen I at Esztergom around the year 1000; [8] his family (the Árpád dynasty) led the monarchy for 300 years.
East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Brill Publishers. pp. 473– 490. ISBN 978-90-04-31015-5. Rady, Martyn (2000). Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave. ISBN 0-333-80085-0. Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500. A History of ...
In the Late Middle Ages, the Kingdom of Hungary, a country in Central Europe, experienced a period of interregnum in the early 14th century. Royal power was restored under Charles I (1308–1342), a scion of the Capetian House of Anjou. Gold and silver mines opened in his reign produced about one third of the world's total production up until ...
The Hungarian invasions of Europe (Hungarian: kalandozások, German: Ungarneinfälle) occurred in the 9th and 10th centuries, during the period of transition in the history of Europe of the Early Middle Ages, when the territory of the former Carolingian Empire was threatened by invasion by the Magyars from the east, the Viking expansion from the north, and the Arabs from the south.
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 ...
The Principality of Transylvania was a semi-independent state, and a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, it continued to be part of the Kingdom of Hungary in the sense of public law, John Sigismund's possessions belonged to the Holy Crown of Hungary, and was a symbol of the survival of Hungarian statehood.
The Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, [1] also known as the Hungarian conquest [2] or the Hungarian land-taking [3] (Hungarian: honfoglalás, lit. 'taking/conquest of the homeland'), [4] was a series of historical events ending with the settlement of the Hungarians in Central Europe in the late 9th and early 10th century.
Royal Hungary (1526–1699), [10] (Hungarian: Királyi Magyarország, German: Königliches Ungarn), was the name of the portion of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary where the Habsburgs were recognized as Kings of Hungary [11] in the wake of the Ottoman victory at the Battle of Mohács (1526) and the subsequent partition of the country.