This is first part of my series dealing with Hungarian history. This post contain Hungarian history from the beginings to the arrival to the Carpathian basin. First when we talk about this period of Hungarian history, we must know that this period is largely lacks in resources and we have to face many uncertainties. Nevertheless, with the help of...

In the southwest corner of Vas County you can find land full of forests and meadows where guardians of the country were settled during the Hungarian conquest. Its name derives from these: Őrség (in English: Guard or Watch post). 1/8

Antal Reguly (1819-1858) Hungarian ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, pioneer of research on Finno-Ugric peoples. He was the first Hungarian who used the photography in his ethnographic researc. He has done invaluable work in the study of Ob-Ugric culture.

They even seemed to have found this horn. But it turned out later that it is unlikely to be Lehel's horn because it was made in the 12th century, probably brought by the Jász people to Hungary. Picture of horn of Lehel

Reconstructed Jász woman clothes from 13.-14. century Hungary. But who were the Jász people? Jászs were originally Iranian nomadic pastorals, subgroup of Alans (ancestors of Ossetians).

At the end of the 1600s and 1700s while the country was slowly liberated itself from the Ottomans the Hungarian-Habsburg antagonisms sharpened again. The members of the anti-Habsburg rebels from this period were called kurucs

Éva Schmidt was an ethnographer and linguist who sacrificed her life to help preserve and promote the ancient culture of Khanties.