The Carolingian age in the Carpathian Basin
Author:
Szőke Béla Miklós
Year:
2014
ISBN:
978-615-5209-17
Pages:
140 pages
Binding:
Paperback
About:

This volume is the first book to report on the astonishing results of the excavations that have been conducted in the present-day Zalavár for decades. The author brilliantly collates Bavarian and other German chronicle extracts with the oldest and most important archaeological finds from the Hungarian National Museum to tell the history of the Carpathian Basin 9th century. He convincingly refutes the idea that “Szigetvár” in the marshes of the Zala River was a Slavic imperial centre, while at the same time he colourfully introduces the everyday life of people in the decades before the Hungarian conquest in the easternmost border margrave of the vast empire ruled by the successors of Charlemagne.