Map of Campaigns of the Magyars in the 10th C. CE
"This chapter attempts to explain the Hungarian conquest of the central Danubian basin. From the outset, the reader should be aware that this task is far from an easy one for at least two reasons. First of all, the Magyars, as nomads from the Pontic steppe, were extremely mobile. As we shall see, during the period 892-907, elements of their confederation attacked Moravia on several different occasions, Bulgaria, as the army of the khan was besieging Constantinople, Italy, at least twice in alliance with various western leaders, and Bavaria, under the pretext of making peace. As a consequence of their mobility, Hungarian armies appear and disappear in a bewildering, but hardly large, variety of laconic sources, leaving one with a confusing picture of their activities. Second, one of our best sources, the Annales Fuldenses, ends abruptly in 901, six years before the decisive battle of Brezalauspurc finally terminated East Frankish attempts to dominate the central Danubian basin. Subsequent annals have left us only scraps of information until the sixteenth century, when humanist historian Aventinus compiled a rather complete account of the final battle, but one that was based on sources that have long since disappeared, if they ever existed at all."
-Charles R. Bowlus. Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The struggle for the Middle Danube
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Charles R. Bowlus. Franks, Moravians, and Magyars: The struggle for the Middle Danube
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