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Hungary - Expansion, Consolidation, Revolution: These royal disputes caused Hungary much harm. Claimants to the throne often invoked foreign help, for which they paid in political degradation or loss of territory: both Peter and Salamon did homage to the Holy Roman emperor for their thrones; and Aba’s war against Peter’s protectors cost Hungary its previous territories west of the Leitha ...
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Regarding the coronation, while in the Kingdom of Hungary the reigning archbishop of Esztergom had the right to conduct the enthronement, this privilege concerned solely the Hungarian kings and it did not require papal permission. The case of Coloman was different; it was a new phenomenon with no precedent, and therefore papal licence was ...
The Influence of Hellenism. The word Hellenistic comes from the Greek word meaning "imitating the Greeks." Hellenism introduced and spread the Greek language, art, culture, political ideas, and philosophy across the Mediterranean and Middle East. What were some of the most widespread, enduring, and historically significant effects of the spread ...
Jan 2, 2024 · Stephen was praised as the “apostle” of the Hungarians, he was now presented as the sole founder of the church in Hungary and of the kingdom. The significance of Stephen was only undermined by some sources from German areas, that attributed mass conversion in Hungary to the activities of Stephen’s wife, Gisela.
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The Cumans did not always ally with the Hungarian kings—they assassinated Ladislaus IV; however, other sources suggest that certain Hungarian barons had a role in his murder, thus Ladislaus fell victim to his political enemies.: 82 The royal and ecclesiastical authorities incorporated, rather than excluded, the Cumans. The Cumans served as ...
A Foreign Concept. Until the early nineteenth century, the term “empire” sounded alien to most Hungarian ears. Empire, or birodalom in Hungarian, was defined through the title of its monarch, hence only polities headed by an emperor—whether a Kaiser (as in the Holy Roman Empire), a tsar (in Russia), or a sultan (in the Ottoman Empire)—were seen as empires.
The Kingdom of Croatia ( Croatian: Kraljevina Hrvatska, Hrvatsko kraljevstvo, Hrvatska zemlja; Hungarian: Horvát királyság; Latin: Regnum Croatiae) entered a personal union with the Kingdom of Hungary in 1102, after a period of rule of kings from the Trpimirović and Svetoslavić dynasties and a succession crisis following the death of king ...
