Some five hundred years after the fall of the Roman empire, three warlike and
rapacious pagan peoples were tearing at a Europe already largely Christian, but
divided into quarrelling parts. From North Africa the Moors struck at the
continent's southern seaboard. From Scandinavia Viking raiders ranged far and
wide down the Volga and Dnieper rivers and across the Black Sea, and from the
British Isles to Sicily. From the Carpathian Basin the Hungarians, who appeared
from the East, attacked in all directions. The Moors were forced back to Africa.
Those Vikings who did not return home assimilated with those they conquered. The
Hungarians founded their state, which is now 1000 years old, on the eastern edge
of Central Europe. This booklet gives a sketch of their history, in words and in
pictures.