Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-jwnkl Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-14T13:47:45.381Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Hungary Under King Matthias Hunyady, surnamed ‘Corvinus.’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

G. G. Zerffi
Affiliation:
Chairman of Council Royal Historical Society

Extract

The Roman province, Pannonia, after having become a prey to the Vizigoths and Ostrogoths, was suddenly invaded towards the end of the fourth century, A.D., by an Asiatic people known under the name of ‘Huns,’ ‘Konoi,’ ‘Aorsoi,’ or ‘Alans.’ These Huns were followed by the Avars, undoubtedly a cognate tribe. The Avars are said to have overcome the Kutugurs, or Usurgurs, and driven from Pannonia the Longobards (Lombards), a Teuton tribe, which settled in Italy, and formed the principal ethnical element of Tuscany. At last we have the Magyars, another cognate tribe of the Huns occupying Pannonia. That the Magyars were Fins was often asserted, but is now an entirely exploded hypothesis. There are a few Finnish words in the Magyar language, proving that at a certain historical period the Magyars must have had some kind of connection with the Fins, but the test words proving the affinity of languages are entirely different.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1883

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 262 note 1 Verböczi, Thurócz, Katona, Szilágy, Mailáth, Pejaczevics, Brankevitch, Fessler, &c.

page 266 note 1 See ‘Hist. MS. reram Austriæ ab anno 1454 ad ann. 1467 auctoris coævi,’ ap. Pray, Ann. P. III. p. 158.

page 267 note 1 See Thurócz, Chroni. P. IV. ch. 59, 60.