ABSTRACT
No STATE in European history has a beginning so precisely definable as Hungary. I t was brought into being well-nigh full-panoplied, by a single act, when the Magyars, until then a people without fixed abode, entered the basin of the middle Danube, a place at that juncture as good as masterless, and made i t their home. This was in the last years of the ninth century A . D .
