Szekely - List of Szekely Settlements, History of the Szekely People, Vasile Luca, Mozes Szekely, Csaba Laszlo, Janos Mattis-Teutsch (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: List of Szekely settlements, History of the Szekely people, Vasile Luca, Mozes Szekely, Csaba Laszlo, Janos Mattis-Teutsch, Szekely Land, Gyorgy Dozsa, Sandor K rosi Csoma, Laszlo Rajk, Magyar Autonomous Region, Eva Tofalvi, Szekelys of Bukovina, Aron Marton, Ferenc Ilyes, Szekely autonomy initiatives, Attila Ambrus, Aron Tamasi, Szekler Sabbatarians, Siculicidium, Bela Marko, Aron Gabor. Excerpt: Following is a list of Szekely settlements. The list contains the municipalities belonging to the Szekely Seats in the 19th century, before the administrative reform in Hungary. The Seats were the traditional self-governing territorial units of the Transylvanian Szekelys during medieval times. (Saxons were also organised in Seats.) The Seats were not part of the traditional Hungarian county system, and their inhabitants enjoyed a higher level of freedom (especially until the 18th century) than those living in the counties. The history of the Szekely people, a Transylvanian subgroup of the Hungarians, spans nine centuries, although many historians consider that the formation of the Szekely people had taken place before the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895-896. Szekely people in the 9th century according to Hungarian historian Dr. Marki SandorAt the end of the 12th century, in a chronicle called Gesta Hungarorum, the notary of Hungarian King Bela IV wrote about the conquest of Hungary about 300 years earlier. He said that the Hungarians and Szekelys had common roots. The invading Hungarians, led by Arpad, according to legend a descendant of Attila the Hun, met the Szekelys, who also used to be the people of Attila, in southern Hungary. The Szekelys then joined the Hungarians in fighting together against the enemies of Arpad. The chronicle was written centuries after the described events. Until the end o...