The Roman Empire conquered territory west of the Danube between 35 and 9 BC From 9 BC to the end of the 4th century AD Pannonia, the western part of the basin was part of the Roman Empire. In the final stages of the expansion of the Roman empire, for a short while the Carpathian Basin fell under Mediterranean influence Greco-Roman civilization - town centers, paved roads, and written sources were all part of the advances to which the "Migration of Peoples" put an end.
After the Western Roman Empire collapsed under the stress of the migration of Germanic tribes and Carpian pressure, theMigration Period continued bringing many invaders to Europe. Among the first to arrive were the Huns, who built up a powerful empire under Attila in 435 AD. Attila the Hun was regarded in past centuries as an ancestral ruler of the Hungarians, but this is now considered to be erroneous. It is believed that the origin of the name "Hungary" does not come from the Central Asian Hunnomadic invaders, but rather originated from the 7th century, when Magyar tribes were part of a Bulgar alliance called On-Ogour, which in Bulgar Turkic meant "(the) Ten Arrows".
After Hunnish rule faded, the Germanic Ostrogoths, Lombards then Slavs came to Pannonia, and the Gepids had a presence in the eastern part of the Carpathian Basin for about 100 years. In the 560s the Avars founded the Avar Khaganate, a state which maintained supremacy in the region for more than two centuries and had the military power to launch attacks against its neighboring empires. The Avar Khaganate was weakened by constant wars and outside pressure, and the Franks underCharlemagne managed to defeat the Avars, ending their 250-year rule.
In the middle of the 9th century, the Slavic Balaton Principality, also known as Lower Pannonia, was established by the Franks as a frontier march when they destroyed the Avar state in the western part of the Pannonian plain; however this vassal state was destroyed in 900 by Hungarian tribes. Much of early Hungarian history is recorded in the following Hungarian chronicles, retelling the early legends and history of the Huns, Magyars and the Kingdom of Hungary.There are around 13.2–14.5 million Hungarians, of whom 9–9.5 million live in today's Hungary (as of 2011) not Slavs from the Russian steppes settled in Hungary in the ninth century AD. Their language is related to Finnish. Hungary came under the foreign rule in the fourteenth century. The Ottoman Turks took central and southern Hungary in 1526, but they were driven out by 1699, when most of Hungary came under Austrian rule.
In 1867, in response to Hungarian nationalism, the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established. After its collapse in 1918, Hungary became a monarchy, although it was ruled from 1920 not by a king but by a regent, Adimiral Horthy.In WWII Hungary was allied with Germany , Soviet troops invaded in 1944-45 and a republic was proclaimed. By 1948 Hungary was put down and Anti-Soviet army was destroyed. It then became a Communist Country.An anti-Stalinist uprising in 1956 was put down and anti-Soviet sentiment has been suppressed.
The Roman Empire conquered territory west of the Danube between 35 and 9 BC From 9 BC to the end of the 4th century AD Pannonia, the western part of the basin was part of the Roman Empire. In the final stages of the expansion of the Roman empire, for a short while the Carpathian Basin fell under Mediterranean influence Greco-Roman civilization - town centers, paved roads, and written sources were all part of the advances to which the "Migration of Peoples" put an end.
