Turkia egész szállásterülete

Absztrakt

The author in this study comes to the conclusion that the Byzantine emperor in his work 'De Administrando Imperio' gives two localisations for the homeland, or country of the Hungarians dating to the middle of the 10th century. One of these localisations is made according to the four cardinal points, and denotes the Hungarians' homeland as being in the Carpathian Basin. The other localisation made according to rivers defines the places, where the Hungarian tribes actually dwelt and lived their nomadic way of life. In the author's opinion the dwellings of Turkia at the time of Constantine covered the following areas, the Szeremség (Sremska), the plain between the rivers Danube and Tisza, the territory east of the river Tisza and the so-called „Temesköz" area (i. e. the south-eastern part of the Great Hungarian Plain). Within these territorries the chief tribes settled in the 'Tiszántúl' (east of the river Tisza) area. This means that the centre of the Hungarian grand principality was in Eastern-Hungary, and it moved to the Transdanubian district (i. e. Western-Hungary) only in the second half of the 10th century.