HUNGARY. ,4§9 



History. ...The Huns, after subduing this country in the middle of 

 the third century, communicated their name to it, being then part of 

 the ancient Pannonia. They were succeeded by the Goths ; the 

 Goths were expelled by the Lombards; they bytheAvari; who 

 were followed by the Slavi in the beginning of the 9th century. At 

 the close of it, the Ugri or Ugurs, emigrated from the banks of the 

 Volga, and took possession of the country. Hungary was formerly 

 an assemblage of different states ; and the first who assumed the title 

 of king was Stephen, in the year 997, when he embraced Christianity. 

 In his reign the form of government was established, and the crown 

 rendered elective. About the year 1310, king Charles Robert ascend- 

 ed the throne, and subdued Bulgaria, Servia, Croatia, Dalmatiaj. 

 Slavonia, and many other provinces ; but many of those conquests 

 were afterwards reduced by the Venetians, Turks, and other powers, 

 In the 15th century, Huniades, who was guardian to the infant king 

 Ladislaus, bravely repulsed the Turks when they invaded Hungary j 

 and, upon the death of Ladislaus, the Hungarians, in 1438, raised 

 Matthias Corvinus, son of Huniades, to their throne. Lewis, king of 

 Hungary, in 1526, was killed in a battle, fighting against Solyman, 

 emperor of the Turks. This battle proved almost fatal to Hungary s 

 but the archduke Ferdinand, brother to the emperor Charles V, hav~ 

 ing married the sister of Lewis, claimed the title of Hungary, in 

 which he succeeded with some difficulty ; and that kingdom has ever 

 since belonged to the house of Austria, though, by its constitution, 

 its crown ought to be elective. For the rest of the Hungarian his- 

 tory, see Germany. 



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