Király, Péter. A honalapítás vitás eseményei: A kalandozások és a honfoglalás éve
Péter Király. The Disputed Events of the Establishment of a Homeland: The Marauding Expeditions and the Year of the Conquest

Summary/Abstract: History textbooks in Hungary date the arrival of the ancestors of the Hungarians to their present homeland to the end of the 9th century A.D., while the fact that there are other theories about the timing of the settlement of the Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin is often not even mentioned. Yet in the past half-century alone at least a half-dozen prominent Hungarian academics have advanced theories that place the arrival of the Hungarians much earlier, sometimes several centuries prior to the time given in the textbooks. Péter Király is one of these historians and his book under review here is just the most recent of these works questioning the accepted dogma of Hungarian historiography about the settlement of the Magyars in East Central Europe.

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