History glossary
Magyars
a mounted people from the Eurasian steppe whose raids shook central and western Europe before the kingdom of Hungary formed.
- Category
- People
- Region
- Central Europe
- Date range
- 9th-10th centuries
What it means
The Magyars were a mounted people from the Eurasian steppe who settled in the Carpathian Basin and raided across central and western Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries. Their later Christian kingdom became medieval Hungary.
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