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Byzantine Christianity and the Magyars in the Period of Their Migration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Gyula Moravcsik
Gyula Moravcsik*
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The University of Budapest
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In his account of the military organization of the Turks (= Magyars), the Byzantine Emperor Leo the Sage repeatedly compares the Magyars with the Bulgarians, and in doing so emphasises that the customs of the Magyars differed from those of the Bulgarians only in so far as the latter had embraced the Christian religion and, adapting themselves to Byzantine morals, had abandoned both their savage and nomadic characteristics and their paganism. By this he alludes to the fact, on the one hand, that the Bulgarian prince Boris and his people had become Christians as early as 864, which means that they had merged in the community of Christian peoples, and to the negative fact, on the other hand, that the Magyars, whom he had come to know during the war in 894-95 but who, at the time of his work was written (between 904-912), were already living in their present country, had not as yet been converted.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 5 , Issue 3-4 , November 1946 , pp. 29 - 45
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1946

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