A Brief History of Hungary - with 62 Pictures in Colour

Fülszöveg

Some five hundred years after the fall of the Roman empire, three warlike and rapacious pagan peoples were tearing at a Europe already largely Christian, but divided into quarrelling parts. From North Africa the Moors struck at the continent's southern seaboard. From Scandinavia Viking raiders ranged far and wide down the Volga and Dnieper rivers and across the Black Sea, and from the British Isles to Sicily. From the Carpathian Basin the Hungarians, who appeared from the East, attacked in all directions. The Moors were forced back to Africa. Those Vikings who did not return home assimilated with those they conquered. The Hungarians founded their state, which is now 1000 years old, on the eastern edge of Central Europe. This booklet gives a sketch of their history, in words and in pictures.