![]() The history of Hungary, from the ninth to the twelfth century, is consequently full of interest for the political philosopher. They had sufficient strength to resist the enemies whom they stirred up by the conquest of their new country, and by those frequent predatory expeditions vhich are of common occurrence in the first historical epoch of conquering nations, without finding themselves compelled to sacrifice their domestic liberty to the arbitrary sway of one man. The original country of these tribes is old Turan, that immense tract of territory extending from the lake of Aral, from the Oxus and Jaxartes, to the frontiers of China and the desert of Gobi.Īmong those rudiments of nations which were taking shape from the commencement of the decline of the Roman Empire down to the fifteenth century, the Hungarians play a conspicuous and interesting part, from the fact that they alone, of all migratory tribes, succeeded in weathering the rocks which threatened those most who drifted most headlong in a current of conquest. But one thing is certain, that that people belongs to the same family of nomadic tribes which sent forth the Huns, Avares, Kumans, the Usi, and the Polowzi. The most ancient history of the Hungarian people is buried in darkness. THE CREATION IF THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING GENESISīIOHISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD CIVILIZATION BIOGRAPHYCAL UNIVERSAL LIBRARY
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