ARPAD, Chief of the Magyars

ŏrˈpäd, c.840–907?, chief of the Magyars. He led his people into Hungary c.895. The leaders of the Magyars and the first dynasty of Hungarian kings (St. Stephen I to Andrew III) were of the house of Arpad (see Hungary).

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St Margaret Queen of Scotland
Book by Alan J. Wilson; John Donald, 2001
Subjects: Christian Women Saints--Scotland--Edinburgh, Margaret--Queen, Consort Of Malcolm Iii, King Of Scotland--Ca. 1045-1093
the Magyars. Invariably torn apart...leadership of a clan chief. The power of the...Thus it was that Arpad, son of Almos, who...Hungarian history. Arpad, chief of the strongest...thirteenth centuries, Arpad was elected to succeed...
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Central-Eastern Europe: Crucible of World Wars
Book by Joseph S. Roucek; Prentice-Hall, 1946
Subjects: Europe, Central--History
...some 25,000 warrior Magyars rode into the great mountain...modern Hungary in 892. Arpad, "a Magyar chief of extraordinary military...was completed and the Magyar warrior tribes controlled...quite recent times. For Arpad united his forces with...
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Refugees in America in the 1990s: A Reference Handbook
Book by David W. Haines; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Refugees--United States
...the leadership of their chief, Arpad, easily subjugated the...confidence, and the Magyars began to raid westward...and that forced the Magyars to settle permanently...the last king of the Arpad dynasty died without...
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Politics in Hungary
Book by Peter A. Toma, Ivan Volgyes; W. H. Freeman, 1977
Subjects: Hungary--Politics And Government--1945-
...to the legend, the chiefs of seven tribes chose...Megyer later known as the Magyar , and its chief, Almos, to lead them...D. as the year the Magyars, under the leadership of Arpad son of Almos , conquered...Under the rule of the Magyars, the seven tribes evolved...kings of the House of Arpad consolidated the feudal...
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Medieval Europe from 395 to 1270
Book by Charles Bémont, G. Monod, Mary Sloan; Henry Holt, 1906
Subjects: Europe--History--476-1492
...Avars subdued by Charlemagne, the Hungarians,--Magyars, as they called themselves,--had gradually...of the Ural to beyond the Carpathians. Led by a chief whom they elected, Arpad, they attacked Moravia; then skirting the German...
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journal articles on: Arpad Chief of the Magyars  - 5 results

 
 
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Feuding Hungarians in the West: Troubles with the Struggle against Communist Ascendancy in Hungary, 1945-1956
Journal article by Judith Fai-Podipnik; International Social Science Review, Vol. 82, 2007
Subjects: Communism--Analysis, Communism--Hungary, Communism--Usage, Hungary--History, Hungary--Political aspects, Hungary--Social aspects, Ideology--Analysis, Ideology--Political aspects, Immigrants--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Magyars--Emigration and immigration, Political ideologies--Analysis
...and controversial. The Magyar Szabadsagmozgalom, the...Movement (HFM), the Magyar Harcosok Bajtarsi Kozosseg...Cross regime served as Chief Quarter Master of Western...sought to liberate the Magyars from the Communist yoke...the western powers and Magyar expatriates, had started...Similarly, General Arpad Hennyey, founder of...
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Bram Stoker and the Treaty of Berlin (1878)
Journal article by Matthew Gibson; Gothic Studies, Vol. 6, 2004
...drove back, before Arpad the Magyar came in the ninth...Italy before the Magyars came to join their...ninth century under Arpad.21 Johnson later...are simply those Magyars who were made to...Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath...Vladika (or council chief),39 a priesthood...
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Liberal Nationalism in Hungary, 1988-1990
Journal article by Laszlo Deme; East European Quarterly, Vol. 32, 1998
Subjects: Hungary--Political aspects, Nationalism--Hungary
...Good Nationalism -- Bad Nationalism. Magyar Hirlap (hereafter MH), July 3, 1992...good and bad nationalism." (2.) A magyar nacionalizmus kialakulasa es tortenete The Development and History of Magyar Nationalism (Budapest. 1964) 31...
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Introduction to Arminius Vambéry
Journal article by David Mandler; Shofar, Vol. 25, 2007
Subjects: Christianity, Christians, Education, English language, Judaic studies, Learning, Religion, Society
...debates regarding the origins of the ancient Magyars,1 but also in the Ottoman Empire, Central...as a researcher into the origins of the Magyars; as a pioneering traveler of Central...school, as he says not by "the real Magyars, the ruling element of the country...
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Orange People: a Brief History of Transnational Liberation Networks in East Central Europe
Journal article by Fredo Arias-King; Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 15, 2007
Subjects: Activism, Behavior, Birth order, Marketing management, Political science, Politics, Profit maximization, Public figures
...affected by that invasion and it was likely a chief reason for her decision to quit the CPSU...activism of Father Laszlo Tokes and fellow Magyars in Romania aware of developments in Hungary...party and essentially dissolved after its chief goal-ending the CPSUs monopoly of power...


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How Magyars Scourged, Then Founded a Nation over 1,000 Years
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 29, 2003
...beginning in 899, the Magyars - the name Hungarians...Augsburg and the Magyars did what no other...descendant of Arpad, the greatest of the Magyar pagan tribal leaders...of the House of Arpad before the male...journalist (editor in chief and copublisher...the history of the Magyars and tells their...


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encyclopedia articles on: Arpad Chief of the Magyars  - 1 result

 
 
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Arpad , Chief of the Magyars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARPAD , chief of the Magyars or pad, c.840 907?, chief of the Magyars. He led his people into Hungary c.895...kings (St. Stephen I to Andrew III) were of the house of Arpad (see Hungary...


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