General Notes

Arpad was leader of the next band of Turanian Invaders called theMagyars, or Hungarians, another branch of the Hunnic race, who in 895 ledhis savage hordes through the Vereczka Pass into the region now calledHungary, there establishing their kingdom. These people, in markedcontrast to almost every other tribe of Turanian origin, adopted themanners, customs and religion of the people about them, became, in aword, thoroughly Europeanized, and for a long time were the main defenseof Christian Europe against the Turkish tribes of the same race thatfollowed closely in their footsteps. Thus they took their religion andcivilization along with it from Germany.