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  Arpad Goncz - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Stephen I (king) (975?-1038), Hungarian monarch, first king of Hungary, and founder of the Árpád dynasty.
remarks by president clinton and president arpad goncz of hungary at arrival ceremony the south grounds.
Árpád Göncz (IPA : [a:rpa:d gønts] ; born February 10, 1922 in Budapest) is a...
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  Arpad Chief of the Magyars: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The leaders of the Magyars and the first dynasty of Hungarian kings (St. Stephen I to Andrew III) were of the house of Arpad (see Hungary).
But only the third wave, the Magyars under the leadership of Arpad, the founder of their ruling dynasty, were able to establish a permanent government and to live a settled...
ARPAD, chief of the Magyars or pad, c.840 907?, chief of the Magyars.
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/arpad_chief_of_the_magyars.jsp   (550 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Arpad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On the death of Andrew III of Hungary, last of the Arpad dynasty, he was elected (1301) king of Hungary.
Charles I 1288-1342, king of Hungary (1308-42), founder of the Angevin dynasty in Hungary; grandson of Charles II of Naples, who had married a daughter of Stephen V of Hungary.
On the death (1301) of Andrew III, last of the Arpad dynasty, Charles was the candidate of Pope Boniface VIII for the crown of St.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Arpad   (560 words)

  
 23 Others
Abd Ar-Rahman III was the greatest ruler of the Omayid Arab Muslim dynasty of Spain.
The Omayid dynasty in Spain was established in 756 by the only surviving prince of the bloodbath that had decimated the Omayids in Damascus at the hands of the first Abbasids.
Stephen, a member of the Magyar Arpad dynasty, united the princes of Hungary and became thus the founder of the Hungarian state.
www.ferdowsi.org /Saena/Sn23OthersP.html   (1944 words)

  
 e. Hungary. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
The Hungarians, or Magyars, organized in a number of tribes, occupied the valley of the middle Danube and Theiss (Tisza).
A period of dynastic struggles over the succession, every member of the Arpad family claiming a share of the power and sometimes calling in the Germans for support.
Peter Urseolo, son of Stephen's sister and the doge of Venice, succeeded to the throne.
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 Hungary - MSN Encarta
His son Stephen I, the founder of the Árpád dynasty, received formal recognition as King of Hungary in 1001, when Pope Sylvester II granted him the title Apostolic Majesty, an appellation retained by Hungarian kings for more than nine centuries.
With the death of Andrew III in 1301 the Árpád line of kings became extinct.
In 1308 Charles Robert of Anjou secured election as Charles I (of Hungary), thereby establishing the Angevin dynasty in Hungary.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761559741_8/Hungary.html   (994 words)

  
 The History of the Settlement
This story is perhaps just the story of one element, which was the name of the ruling "nation" which subsequently gave the name to the rest of the people and country of the Magyars, who are known in the west as Hungarians.
They elected Álmos their king, to lead them to retake Atilla's inheritance, and his progeny were to be forever the future rulers of this newly united nation.
Arpad took advantage of the absence of a strong ruler and recalled his armies from the Italian Peninsula.
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 dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A dynasty is a succession of ruler who belong to the same family for generations.
Historians traditionally recount China's story within a framework of successive dynasties A similar pattern happened in Ancient Egypt and the Persian Empire, and dynasties such as the Carolingians, the Capetians, the Bourbons, the Habsburgs, the Stuart, the Hohenzollerns and the Romanovs successively and together dominated much of European political history.
In many parts of Europe, the persistence of aristocratic families and their varying titles may serve to disguise some of the on-going influence of several political dynasties (as opposed to the royal dynasties which have provided monarchs).
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Arpads or Árpáds (Hungarian: Árpádok, Slovak: Arpádovci, Croatian: Arpadovići) was a dynasty ruling in historic Hungary from the late 9th century to 1301.
The male line was extinguished by 1301, yet the Croÿ family of Belgium and the Drummond family of Scotland claim to descend from illegitimate sons of medieval Hungarian kings who settled in those countries.
Especially before 1077, the dukes had an independent foreign and internal policy and the duchy was accepted as a separate entity not only by Hungary, but also by the Pope and by the German emperor.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Arpad_dynasty   (2450 words)

  
 About Hungary
The situation was further aggravated by a near two-decade struggle for the Hungarian crown following the demise of the Árpád dynasty.
The Anjou dynasty emerged triumphant from the rivalry between European dynasties, and snatched the Hungarian crown.
Their decision was to a considerable extent influenced by the realization that they needed support in the face of the Turkish world empire, and they hoped to obtain it from the Habsburg dynasty that was beginning to play an ever more important role European great power politics.
www.combinedendeavor.areur.army.mil /pages/hungary/historyHung.htm   (7734 words)

  
 History of Budapest Hungary
Pannonia was governed from the fortified town of Aquincum (a must see) on the west bank of the Danube, (north of Arpad bridge).
Arpad was the first king of the Magyars (what Hungarians call themselves).
It was under the Árpád dynasty that Hungary became a Christian state, ruled first from Esztergom and later from Székesfehérvár.
budapest.com /history.html   (2039 words)

  
 younghuns - australian hungarian youth
Under the rule of the Árpád Dynasty, the Hungarian nation was transformed from a confederation of Hungarian tribes into a powerful state of East-Central Europe.
The Árpád Dynasty ended with Andrew III in 1301, marking the end of an era that was so substantial in the history of Hungary.
He led a Magyar occupation of Hungary and was the progenitor of the Árpád Dynasty.
www.hungarianyouth.org.au /hungary/arpadDynasty1.asp   (850 words)

  
 SFOR - History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The King of Naples claimed the throne, and it was during these struggles that, by pledging allegiance to one side and to the other, the Bosnian kings managed to carve out their independent fief.
The Bosnian dynasty became quite close to the Angevins, and the daughter of Stjepan, king of Bosnia, married Louis I, King of Hungary.
The kings of Naples were a part of the Anjou family, a junior branch of the French royal family, and bore a slightly different coat of arms.
www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/119/p03a/chapter3.htm   (826 words)

  
 The Great Dynasties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The only native ruling house in Bohemia, the Premyslid dynasty (a contemporary of the Piast dynasty), provided a King of Poland towards the end of the troubled 13th Century in what was a complex, but interesting, climax to their struggle for power in East Central Europe.
He was more concerned in strengthening his own dynasty centred on Hungary and as a result had become involved in a long struggle with Venice for the control of the Adriatic (in three wars; 1342 - 46, 1357 - 58, and 1378 - 81), succeeding in 1381.
The constant raids of the Moldavians and Tartars were to eventually result in the ravishing of Ruthenia and the Ukraine, the annihilation of flourishing settlements and a virtual end to the Polonisation of the area which was to become known as the “Wild Plains”.
www.kasprzyk.demon.co.uk /www/GreatDynasties.html   (7091 words)

  
 History - Hungary - Europe
Under the leadership of their legendary chieftain Arpad, the invaders conquered Moravia, raided the Italian Peninsula, and made incursions into Germany.
The Magyars ranged over central Europe for more than half a century after the death of Arpad in 907, and in 955 they devastated Burgundy.
His son Stephen I, the founder of the Arpad dynasty, was granted formal recognition as king of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II in 1001 or 1002.
www.countriesquest.com /europe/hungary/history.htm   (271 words)

  
 hungary
Arpad 870-907, Magyar chieftain who conquered and founded the modern kingdom of Hungary in the late19th century.
Under the leadership of their semilegendary chieftain Arpad, the invaders conquered Moravia, raided the Italian Peninsula, and made incursions into Germany.
His son Stephen I, the founder of the Arpad dynasty, received formal recognition as king of Hungary in 1001, when Pope Sylvester II granted him the title Apostolic Majesty, an appellation retained by Hungarian kings for more than nine centuries.
website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/hungary.htm   (2778 words)

  
 History of HUNGARY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
So Arpad becomes the founder of a nation which somehow - in all the upheavals of central Europe - retains its identity and its language down through the centuries.
In 973 the supreme chieftain Géza, great-grandson of Arpad, sends an embassy to the German emperor Otto II.
At the same time the country is plagued by a wild and uncontrollable tribe, the Kumans (a branch of the Kipchak Turks), who migrate westwards into the region to escape the onslaught of the even fiercer Mongols.
www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=2048&HistoryID=ab87   (818 words)

  
 Magyar Turisztikai Hivatal - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the 12th century Hungary was greatly influenced by the culture of Byzantium.
The reign of the Angevine Dynasty (1308-1382) in the 14th century was the age of glory and chivalry.
After his sudden death, the aristocrats left the fate of the country to the Jagelló dynasty (1490-1526).
www.mth.gov.hu /main.php?folderID=904   (1714 words)

  
 Andrew III of Hungary information - Search.com
Andrew III (Endre) of the Arpad dynasty was king of Hungary 1290-1301 and the last male of Arpads to hold the throne.
He was a grandson of Andrew II of Hungary (reigned 1205-35), being the only son of Andrew Ii's youngest son (possibly illegitimate) who was born of the old king's third marriage, or Italian concubine.
After a short interregnum the Angevin dynasty seized power and Charles Robert (grandson of Maria of Hungary, sister of Ladislaus IV of Hungary, and son and heir to Charles Martel) became the recognized king.
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 Arpadynasty
Led a Magyar occupation of Hungary and was the progeniter of the Arpad dynasty.
Note: Supposedly, the Arpad line can trace its decendancy back to Atilla the Hun, and through him to Emperors of China.
However, this is a very unsubstantiated claim, and I would take it with a grain of salt if I were you.
www.geocities.com /Chisholmfamilytree/Arpadynasty.html   (314 words)

  
 Complete history of Budapest and Hungary for the past two thousand years.
With the death of Andras III, the Arpad Dynasty comes to an end.
On March 25 and April 8, the first free elections are held.
Arpad Goncz is elected as first President of the newly freed republic, by parliament.
www.budapest.com /history   (1866 words)

  
 Chronology of More Recent Times - 1300 AD to present
The Premyslid dynasty that has ruled Bohemia since 1198 ends with the death of Wenceslas III at age 17 after a 1-year reign.
The Muslim Tughlak dynasty that will rule western India until 1413 is founded by the elderly Turkish shah Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlak, who has gained numerous victories over the Mongols and will make Warangal and Bengal provincial states before his death in 1325.
A Muslim dynasty in Kashmir that will endure for 243 years is founded by Shah Mirza, who will substitute a land tax of one-sixth for the extortionate taxes imposed by Hindu kings.
www.b17.com /family/lwp/chronology/1301_1500.html   (6805 words)

  
 Arpads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Árpáds (Hungarian: Árpádok, Slovak: Arpádovci, Croatian: Arpadovići) were a dynasty ruling in historic Hungary from the late 9th century to 1301 (with some interruptions, e.
The seniority principle was replaced by the primogeniture, which led to struggles for the throne between 997–1163.
Árpád (died after 900), the founder of the dynasty who brought the proto-Hungarians to present-day Hungary in 896, was probably succeeded by his nephew, dux Szabolcs, who in turn was succeeded by Árpád’s grandson Fajsz (Fales, Falitzi).
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 Burgenland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is not only the closed street structure and the closely built houses, but also the church raised to commemorate the patron saint of the village in the centre of Mosonszentpeter -part of Janossomorja that indicates for the visitor that he has arrived at a once independent village.
The church was built on a foundation dating from the age of the Arpad -dynasty, and the stones built in the bottom third of the spire and the two columns in front of the façade also prove its medieval origin.
The depicted events referring to the age of the Arpads / St. Stephan offering the Holy Crown and the view of Pannonhalma / and the symbols / the Coat of Arms without the Crown / are the proof of the attachment of the German population to Hungary.
home.earthlink.net /~rghayes/burgenlandphotos.html   (1389 words)

  
 anjou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Karol Robert (1301 - 1342) Although nominated as a child as King of Hungary by the pope, Karol Robert did not enter Hungary to the accept the throne until the death of the last Arpad king, Andrew III in 1301.
After his coronation, Karol Robert set out to unite Hungary under the new dynasty by eliminating the oligarchs and barons who had been the primary cause of the fall of the Arpad dynasty.
After a five-year struggle, Sigismund of Luxembourg, the Margrave of Brandenberg, and husband, to Louis' second daughter Maria, was crowned King of Hungary in 1387.
academic.evergreen.edu /g/greenw/anjou.html   (693 words)

  
 39th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The son of Halvdan the Black, ruler of part of southeastern Norway and a scion of the Yngling dynasty, the ancient royal house of Sweden, Harald succeeded his father at the age of 10.
BIOGRAPHY: The Árpád dynasty were rulers of Hungary from the late 9th century until 1301, under whom the Hungarian nation was transformed from a confederation of Hungarian tribes into a powerful state of east-central Europe.
The tribes crossed the Carpathians en masse, probably in 896, and easily subjugated the peoples of the sparsely inhabited central plain, their first place of settlement.
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