Lavishly illustrated, the book contains seventy five historical maps and colour plates which visualize the historical background of Hungary and introduces its early history to a broader readership. The early history of Hungarians is embedded into the history of Eurasia and special attention is given to the relationship of the Hungarians with the Khazars and the Bulghar-Turks.The first part deals with methods and sources which can be used for elucidating the ancient history of the Hungarians, relying on research into linguistics, archaeology, anthropology and natural history. The second part traces how the Hungarians came into the Carpathian Basin and answers such questions as: who are the Magyars, from where did they come and how did they conquer the land? It reconstructs and examines their early political and social structure, the economy, and religion, and compares the Hungarian medieval process with the ethnogenetic processes of the Germanic, Slavic and Turkic people.
- Cover
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- TRANSLATOR'S NOTES
- PART ONE A METHODOLOGlCAL lNTRODUCTION AND THE SOURCES
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 1.Terminology, methods
- 2.Chronology and chronological assumptions
- 3.The role ofth e natural sciences in establishing chronology
- 4.Other ancillary disciplines in establishing chronology
- II. THE SOURCES
- 1. The concept of source material
- 2. Source criticism
- 3. The written sources
- 4. The language as a source
- 5. The archaeological sources
- 6. Ethnographic sources
- 7. The anthropological sources
- PART TWO RELATIVES AND NEIGHBOURS
- IIl. THE RELATIVES
- 1. Linguistic relationship
- 2. The Uralic languages and peoples
- IV. THE NEIGHBOURS
- 1. Early lndo-European languages and peoples
- 2. The Xiongnu and the Huns
- 3. The early Turkic peoples
- 4.The Slavonic peoples
- V. EURASIA IN THE 9TH AND 10TH CENTURIES
- 1.The end oft he Uighur Empire
- 2.The Khitai and China
- 3.The Kharakhanids and the Black Khitai
- 4.The Oghuz and the Seljuk
- 5.The Khazars and the Rus
- 6.Byzantium and the Danube Bulghars
- 7.Rome and the Franks
- 8.The Avars and Slavs in the Carpathian Basin
- 9.The Carpathian Basin on the eve oft he Conquest
- PART THREE FROM THE URALS TO THE CARPATHlAN BASlN
- VI. THE NAMES OF THE MAGYARS BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF STATE
- VII. URHEIMATS AND MIGRATION
- VIII. THE CONQUEST
- IX. THE MAGYARS IN THE CARPATHIAN BASlN
- X. THE INTEGRATION OF THE MAGYARS WITHIN EUROPE
- PART FOUR RECENT RESEARCH AND STUDIES
- XII. AN OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY OF ANCIENT HUNGARIAN HISTORY
- XIII. THE LEVEDl QUESTION AND THE EARLIEST HUNGARIAN CHRONICLE
- XIV. HISTORICAL TRADITIONS, ATTILA AND THE HUNNISH-MAGYAR KINSHIP
- XV. THE EAST MAGYARS, THE BASHKIRIAN TRIBAL NAMES AND YUGRIA
- XVI. THE SZÉKELY RUNIFORM SCRIPT
- APPENDICES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CHART OF RULERS
- CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
- INDEX OF PROPER NAMES
- INDEX OF WORDS, ETHNIC AND TRIBAL NAMES
- LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES AND PLATES
- SOURCES OF MAPS, FIGURES AND PLATES
- Back cover
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