The Early Hungarians in the Light of Recent Historical Research

Contents v
List of figures vii
Prologue: The rough road of Hungarian Ancient History 1
PART ONE. WHO ARE THE HUNGARIANS? 
The People 17
1. The anthropological build-up of the Nation, p. 17. - 2. The Hungarian language and its great antiquity, p. 24. - 3. Their two most frequently used ethnic names: Magyar and Hungarian, p. 40. - 4. The whereabouts of the Old Fatherland, p. 47. 	 
Their earliest civilization 65
1. The Old Hungarian script, p. 65. - 2. The Old Hungarian faith, p. 76. - 3. The Oriental background of the first Hungarian dynasty, p. 95.  4. How the Nation remembered its origin, p. 105. 	 
PART TWO. THE GENESIS OF THE DANUBIAN HUNGARIANS 
The Neolithic and Bronze Age Hungarians 115
1. Implantation of the Higher Civilization into the Danubian basin, p. 115. - 2. The advent of the first sedentary population, p. 126. - 3. The identity of the first settlers, p. 137. - 4. The testimony of the Tatarlaka (Tartaria) tablets, p. 147. 	 
The Scythian Hungarians 159
1. Their origin and civilization, p. 159. - 2. Scythians in Hungary, p. 162. - 3. The language of the European Scythians, p. 167. - 4. Who were the Kelti or Celts? p. 175. 	 
The Hun-Hungarians 181
1. The Roman and Germanic influence upon the ethnographic conditions in the Carpatho-Danubian basin, p. 181. - 2. The coming of the Huns, p. 187. - 3. The ethnic identity of the Huns, p. 191. - 4. Hun-symbols and written records, p. 193. - 5. The bad image of the Huns in Western Europe, p. 202. 	 
The Magyar-Hungarians 207
1. Massive influx of Magyars into the Carpathian land and the birth of Hungary-I, p. 207. - 2. Hungary\'s ethnographic and political conditions in the IXth century, p. 210. - 3. The formation of the Arpadian people in Eastern Europe, p. 219. - 4. The re-unification of the country and the birth of Hungary-II as a modern state, p. 225. - 5. Epilogue: The fate of the lost Hungarian tribes, p. 232.
Bibliography 241