Hungarian Conquest in The Carpathian Basin
The first temporary raids of ancestral Hungarians in this territory occurred in the 860s. Constantine VII in the De Administrando Imperio, writes about the Magyar tribes as Turcois ("Turks", i.e. Khazars), stating that they spoke a "double language" dialect. Prince Árpád is traditionally said to be the person who led the seven ancestral Hungarian tribes into the Carpathian Basin from Etelköz, where the first known Hungarian principality was (established in 830). That territory was located around the rivers Dnieper, Southern Bug, Dniester, Prut and Siret. These seven Hungarian tribes (and the 3 Kabar tribes) established the Principality of Hungary.
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