July 3-7, 907 the focal point of the events taking place between can be placed a few years before this battle.
Exactly 885-890, at the time of the signing of the Hungarian blood treaty between Etelköz (year 890). In Europe, around this time, the practice of the Western European Empire's wars of conquest reached its peak. In the direction of the complete destruction of the European nobility, i.e. the European-Hungarian aboriginal population that still existed at that time. In this paper, we are not talking about the plans of the also Semitic and conquering Eastern Roman Empire. Together with the Roman Catholic Christian conversion. The aristocracy of Western Europe has by now lost being Hungarian, let's think of Gaul becoming French, the formation of Semitic England, and the German nation formed on the bones of the Saxons, etc. Only in the Carpathian basin did pure Hungarian peoples live at that time, actually organized into several princely states. These small tribal states, separately: the Scythians, the Huns, the Avars, the Moravian-Hungarians (not Slovaks!) etc., were not capable of fully opposing the conquering Franks, i.e. the Western Roman power. As their natural reaction, they turned to the still-existing fraternal Hun-Hungarian Khazarian Empire for help, in order to successfully fight their effective self-defense battle.
Let us note that the Khazar Empire is not at all the same as a Jewish country. It is true that Kazaria - as a unified Hun-Hungarian empire, under the leadership of a Khazar ruling house, not a Hun - was forced to accept a Jewish tribe into its country due to the heavy losses it suffered as a result of the war of robbers by the Islamic Arabs that lasted from 736-737. It is also true that these settled Jews were integrated into the Khazar power system, but even this did not mean that Khazaria became a Jewish country from that point on. After all, the Huns of the Levédia and Maeotisz districts, the Scythian and Avar-Hungarian tribes of the Etelköz, together with the Savards lived in this empire.
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The events leading to the beginning of Hungarian reunification are also the consequence of the Islamic Arab wars of conquest. Because in 892, during the new Arab conquest, the Arab leader Izmail ibn Ahmeg destroys the eastern provinces of the Khazar Empire, the army of the Beshenyan, Kun and Uz tribes inhabiting and protecting the Aral Lake area. Causing enormous destruction to these additional Khazar-Hungarians. As a result of this defeat, those who lost their livelihood, almost their entire livestock, fled westward, towards the interior of the Khazar Empire. As a result, the previous order of the empire was overturned, and the Khazarian Kagan had to resettle these fleeing tribes somewhere. Since there was no more free space, they had to make space politically.
Even before that, with the support of the Khazars, the Hungarian tribes living in Etelköz elected Álmos as their chief leader in 885.
With the aim of repelling the increasingly expanding Frankish conquest in the west with fraternal help, and settling in the Carpathian basin alongside the native population there, they created a militarily strong Central European power, with the name Hungária = Hungary. As a result of the accelerating events, the Khazarian Kagan settled the Peshenians, who had previously suffered defeat, in place of the Hungarian tribes leaving Etelköz, and the Kuns and Uzs settled in Levédia.
We are now back where we started our writing. The blood contract between meals is therefore the starting point of all the glorious events that we can read about in the following. From 890, the seven leaders and their respective clans began to prepare for the great task. They had to produce an adequate amount of food for the traveling families. Enough for at least one year, as well as providing for the soldiers. The vehicles and carts of the joiners had to be repaired and their draft animals supplied with fodder and prepared for the journey. The soldiers' weapons were supplemented and repaired, and their horses were replenished, and the young people had to be trained for the great journey and battles. But the biggest task is the diplomatic preparation of the region to avert all dangers of the upcoming war of national unification.
Let's clarify what has been written so far. The close diplomatic relations of the principalities of the Carpathian basin with the Khazarian Khaganate living around the Caspian Sea and with the Hun-Hungarian princely power is a historical reality. The relationship with the Khazar Empire was permanent during the Avar rule, but remained a living reality even after that. There is every reason to assume that the blood treaty and the reunification (and not the conquest!) could have been the result of a diplomatic consultation and request originating from the Carpathian Basin. All that was needed was the occurrence of a favorable or decisive historical event to initiate the planned unification. It is true that it is not favorable, but the moment is triggered by the occupation of the city of Kiev in 882 by the Slavic prince Oleg of Old Russia. The Álmos Hun princely family stationed in or near Kiev (probably Árpád's birthplace) had to flee the city. Its history is that after the destruction of the Huns in the Caucasus by the Arabs (from 736), the Hun ruling house moved further north, to Kiev.
Oleg, that is, the Hun princely family forced to move back to Etelköz from the expanding prince of the Russians, makes a blood pact with the unifying tribes around the year 890. In preparation for 894, the seven tribes that signed the treaty and those who joined begin the battles for the unification of the Carpathian Basin. How brilliantly successful, many people have written about in many different ways. If we look for a parallel in world history for Árpád's glorious national unification, then we have to realize that we can identify with it the success of the victorious Trojan War of the Achaean alliance against the Mycenaean, or Doric, invasion of about two thousand years earlier. It is understandable that while the ancient Greeks stopped the Assyrian-Persian conquest in the east, Árpád's armies stopped the Assyrian-Frankish expansion in the west.
We will continue to briefly recount the more glorious events of the events started by the leader Álmos. According to the historical truth: Hungarian unification was carried out with surgical precision, coordinated with the Khazars, according to the regional integration of the Eastern European lords, and was a planned event of its time. Because it can also be proven, as we have already mentioned, that the Khazar Empire had to provide accommodation of considerable size to the Pechenegs fleeing from the east, and then to the Kuns and Uzians who followed them. He could only solve this by moving some of the Hun-Magyar tribes to the Carpathian Basin. With the issuance of the departure order, in the summer of 895, the tribes formed into marching columns and set off in the Carpathians towards their assigned crossings. According to the sources, at that time Álpád's son, the leader Árpád, who had been elected to Gyula, was already leading the unification operations. The number of tribes that moved in could not reach 500,000 people, the rest of the population was made up of the local Hun-Hungarian nobility, totaling about 2 million people.
Clearly and prominently in contrast to the literature:
the battles of Hungarian unification took place and ended not between 895-900, but between 894-902.
It lasted exactly three years longer, a total of eight years, than the world knows today. Because by the autumn of 894, the outposts of Árpád's army occupied the lodgings of the tribes who wanted to settle in the following year, along the eastern areas of the Tisza river. On the other hand, the battles of home unification ended with the recapture of the Moravian highlands in 902. The unified Carpathian basin Hungária = Hungary can be counted on from this year. Anyone who has read our lines should tell all Hungarians like this.
Before the decisive battle in Bratislava, we need to specify one more important event. As is well known, the Hungarian Kende and his entourage were the victims of a political assassination by the Bavarians in Kursá in 904. He is because the highest state dignity was held by the Kende in peacetime. Árpád only bore the title Gyula, the chief commander of the campaign. As a result of Kursán's murder, a state of war again occurs with the Bavarians. In which, once again, Gyula, or Árpád, will be the commander-in-chief, the country's number one military leader. In addition, he also receives the post vacated by the death of Kende, the victorious leader of the Battle of Bratislava. This is how the dignity of Kende, i.e. the title of arch-prince, also comes into the hands of the Árpád house after his victory.
This is the explanation of why Árpád's son, Zolta (Zsolt), inherits the duchy after his father's death.
Killing Kursán can be considered a diplomatic declaration of war, but Árpád does not attack. Rather, they are trying to prevent the expected attack with a full-scale political arrangement, strengthening the border protection and the full development of the turf system. With intelligence, they knew exactly the plans of the enemy and the time of the attack. During these three years, the country prepared to fight its biggest patriotic war.
We only have to recount the battles of the unified Hungary to keep its homeland in order to get a complete picture of the glory of the Battle of Bratislava. After the murder of Kursán, the East Franks (Bavarians) were able to launch a general and total counter-attack against the settling Hungarians only three years later, in 907. Everyone should know the decisive and perhaps the most glorious, self-sacrificing Battle of Bratislava, July 4-7, 907. events. However, we will repeat it here in one sentence. The East Frankish army of at least 100,000 men, led by the Bavarian Margrave Liutpold, attacking in three corps with the aim of annihilating the Hungarians along the Danube, is captured one by one by Árpád's 40,000-man defense force near Bratislava and destroyed almost to the last man in three days. On the first day, the Danube corps, on the second, the Danube right, and on the third day, the left corps of the army was swam across the Danube at dawn. At the end of the story, the pursuing Hungarian cavalry cut down the fugitives.
Then on the 7th, when he reached the castle of Ennsburg, he pretended to run in front of the Bavarian reserve army. The castle's guard stepped up and launched a counterattack. The returning Hungarian cavalry destroyed this army with its barrage of arrows. The fleeing King Louis the Child of the East Franks only made it to Passau with difficulty even with the rest. After the decisive victory, the new borders were drawn at the river Enns. Even the Bavarian general Liutpold, who had previously murdered Kursán the Kende and his entourage in 904, remained among the dead. This is how Árpád's armies successfully avenged the diplomatic assassination of the Bavarian prince against the Hungarians. As a result of the victory, the Hungarians established their western borders at the river Enns, and this state border remained stable for a long time. The realization of a final and unified Hungary is now being born.
In the Battle of Bratislava, the Hungarians win the country's survival against the much larger and stronger western conquering powers. At the same time, they learned that if they want to continue to ensure the independence of the homeland, they must jointly defend themselves against the attackers and recover any property that may have been taken from them. The 100-year period that will be mistakenly known as the Hungarian adventures, after our unification battles, was built on the same principle. The national defense battles, correctly called "planned preventive military strikes", had no other purpose than to prevent the formation of another Western Roman-Christian alliance against us by purposefully weakening the Western European peoples militarily. In addition, he was tasked with the strengthening and acceptance of the country's permanent borders with the surrounding powers.
Let's end our article by formulating the main lesson of the Battle of Bratislava. Because the "adventures" had another, also unrecognized, goal, the recovery of as much of the Avar treasures as possible that had been "stolen" by the Franks a hundred years earlier. But with the most important goal, finding and bringing back the Hungarian Holy Crown for the benefit of the Hungarian homeland. Which Károly the Great took as his own property together with the Avar treasures, and according to many, he crowned himself Roman emperor with this crown. It is true that the crown was not found and brought home at that time, because Roman Christianity prevented this.
But with the strengthening of our role as a great power and the adoption of Christianity, they could no longer refuse to return our crown. At the turn of the 1st millennium III. To Otto, the brother-in-law of our King István I, through the intervention of the German-Roman Emperor at the time, Roman Pope Sylvester II was forced to return the crown and insignia of power to our country, for our feudal and Roman-Christian kingdom, which was just about to be founded at that time. But that's a completely different story.
Without this glorious self-sacrificing victory for the world, there would be no Hungary today.
It is true that in the 1110 years that followed, the homeland weakened, because ever since then it has been fighting a life-and-death battle against the Western Roman conquerors, and currently against their weapons of monetary power.
No fairytale, we have to win again! There is only one option for staying in Hungary.
István T
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