magyars

Few figures left behind a grand or even honourable legacy in that time of troubles known as the feudal anarchy, which engulfed Italy as the Carolingian Empire burst into flames unseen since the fall of the first Rome. Not long after the deposition of Charles III, the man whose idleness had...

Let's suppose that after the destruction of the Gepids, it's the Avars who leave the Pannonian basin to invade Italy. How could things play out? How different would things be if there was an Italic state with a non-Christian, at least in the beginning, ruling class? And what if the Pannonian...

Was it ever possible for the Kingdom of Hungary to de facto disintegrate around the 14th century, that is, in the aftermath of the extinction of the main line of the Arpad dynasty? IOTL, after the death of Andrew III, the throne was contested between multiple pretenders, chiefly the Premyslid...

I have always found it interesting that the early Hungarian migrations of the ninth and tenth century have never been the subject of much alternate history discussion aside from speculation as to where they could have ultimately settled aside from Pannonia. After all, they were able to raid much...

What if the Hungarians had never moved to the Pannonian Basin? How might things be different?

Could the Magyars have migrated somewhere other than the Carpathian Basin/Pannonian Plain? On one hand, the Carpathian Basin is the westernmost extension of the Eurasian steppe, which would imply that it was the most pragmatic place for the Magyars to settle. On the other hand, there's plenty...

What if the East Francian army had managed to defeat the Magyars at Pressburg, in 907 AD? Could this lead to a "pannonian crusade" of sorts? Is an East Francian Hungary in the cards?

So King Otto I of Germany had brought three Bavarian contingents, two Swabian contingents, a continent of Franconains and Bohemians each, and a royal contingent under Otto himself consisting primarily of Saxons and Thuringians. All together he had an estimated 8,000 men. The Magyars had an...

I was reading the Wikipedia article about the Magyar tribes and saw this: "Before 881 AD three Turkic tribes rebelled against the rule of the Khagan of the Khazars, but they were suppressed. After their defeat they left the Khazar Empire and voluntarily joined the Hétmagyar confederation. The...

If the Magyars had won a decisive victory against the Holy Roman Empire in 955, would they have remained nomadic raiders for a longer period of time? Could the Magyars conquer much of Germany north of the Alps? (The Bulgars were able to take the forested Balkans despite being horse archers.)