Captivating History
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Inside Captivating History?s History of Hungary, you?ll discover: The nomadic clans of the Magyar people who moved from central Asia into the areas we
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call Hungary today and its surroundings. How the Magyars rapidly changed from a semi-nomadic tribal organization, who terrified the people so much that some prayed to God to relieve them of the ?curse of the Magyars? in much the same way that Western monks prayed from relief from the Vikings, to a settled Christian kingdom in the early 1000s. That the first king of a unified Hungary is now the patron saint of the nation, Saint Stephen. That despite his ?saintliness,? Stephen often tortured his enemies and had their eyes gouged out. The story of Matthias I, known as the ?Raven King? or ?Matthias Corvinus? for his symbol and his belief that his family had Roman roots in the aristocrat Corvinii family of ancient Rome. The dark day of August 29th, 1526, when the Hungarians were defeated by the Ottomans at Mohács, which changed Hungarian history forever. How the Austro-Hungarian Empire began. Hungary?s part in WWI, WWII, and the Holocaust. The revolt of 1956. The end of communism in 1989.
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