Magyar

The Magyar group gathers the Hungarians and the Székelys of eastern Transylvania. Their language belongs to the Ugric branch of the Uralic family, alongside Khanty and Mansi. Their first king, Stephen I, was crowned around 1000, and his Árpád dynasty ruled for three centuries.

The Árpáds died out in 1301, and the Angevin kings who followed made Hungary a major power. After the defeat at Mohács in 1526 the kingdom was split between Habsburg Royal Hungary, Ottoman Hungary and the semi-independent Principality of Transylvania. Habsburg kings held the throne, and Hungarians rose against them in 1604–1606, 1664–1671 and 1703–1711.