Causes of the Liberation and National Reunion War (1916-19)

[rcristi]

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[ As a military leader he was extremely succesfull, probably the most succesful Hungarian king of all (he defeated the Turks at Belgrade and extended his rule to such territories as Silesia, Czechia, Moravia, Austria, Serbia and Bosnia).

Iancu de Hunedoara/Janos Huniady did the job at Belgrade in 1456.

Cheers

[Najroda]

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Iancu de Hunedoara/Janos Huniady did the job at Belgrade in 1456. Cheers

Yes, you're right. However, the conquests were his, and those in the south were at the expense of the Ottomans. He set up a permanent army, which made him independent from the local barons. But what's most remarkable is that he was only 15 (!) at the start of his rule in 1458.

I called Mátyás one of the best Kings of Hungary ever had, because without him and of course his father (who was not a king) Hungary would have fallen prey to the Ottomans almost one century earlier, and in that case the very important influences of renaissance and humanism would be largely missing from modern Hungary.

Only Hungary's first christian King, saint Stephen was perhaps more important in the nation's History, because without his visionary decision to adopt European christianity, Hungary would probably not even exist today, like there is no modern Hunnia, Avaria, Cumania, Yazigia or Pechenegia, and of the Turkic Bulgars only their name survives, but the contemporary Bulgarians have little to do with them. The name of the Cumans survives only in the name of their once autonomous region "Kunság" in central Hungary between Tisza and Danube, and that of the Yazigs in the region "Jászság", which lies north of the "Kunság". But also in the name of the Romanian town Iasi, which in Hungarian is called "Jászvásár" (=Yazig marketplace). These people are completely assimilated, but they can still be distinguished. For example the Cumans have a pale skin but black hair and black eyes, unlike other Hungarian who have mostly brown or blond hair and brown, blue or green eyes. Paradoxically, the one thing most of them can do in Cumanian, is pray "our heavenly Father", but that's about it.

Sorry for wandering off-topic

[Victor]

Matyas, he neglected to continue the determined anti-Ottoman offensive his father has initiated, even though he could have allied himself (and eventually did) with the best Romanian generals of the 15th century: Stephen the Great and Vlad the Impaler. This policy led after 50 years to the disaster at Mohacs. Anyway we can continue this discussion in other thread if youa re really interested.

PS: I seem to have mixed up things a little, posting the same reply in another thread (Kossovo). I have deleted it froim there.