Origins
The origins of separated territorial governments within the Kingdom of Hungary are debated among modern scholars.
Some of them claim that the institution was the adaptation of the practise followed by leaders of nomadic tribal federations who entrusted their heirs with the government of some tribes joined recently to the federation. The practise was followed within the tribal federation of the Magyars and later it became the pattern for developing separated governments on territorial basis (e.g., Koppány's government in Somogy).
Other sources mention that the practise of separating a territory for the heir of the monarch was followed by the rulers of Great Moravia.
Another view is that the institution was developed when King Andrew I of Hungary assigned the government of one-third of his kingdom to his brother, the future King Béla I in 1048.
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