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Editor says, what if the Magyars had lived to regret winning the Battle of Augsburg? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the September 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 916, on this day the incomparable Magyar commander Bulcsú ("man of blood") was born in Regensburg, Bavaria; his father Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Kal, also bore the title harka (military leader).
Man of BloodFighting alongside the chieftains Lél (Lehel) and Sér he led the Magyars to a dramatic victory in 955 at the flood plain that lies along the Lech River. The first national German battle against a foreign enemy ended in abject defeat, and King Otto's dreams of a Holy Roman Emperor were utterly destroyed on the battlefield. And yet all was not lost for Otto's countrymen, because although the Magyars subsequently overran Germany, the territory proved far too big for the Magyars to subdue. After a series of skirmishes, they ran out of of manpower and were decisively beaten.
Fleeing to the Black Sea, they left undefended the Pannonian Basin which was subsequently occupied by the Germans and eventually became the present day state of Lower Bavaria.
Entry posted by Todayinah Editor
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Generals Source: Wikipedia Labels: Bulcsú, Magyar, Hungary, German, Augsburg. Editor says, in authoring this post we have taken ideas from Michael William Stone and Jeff Provine. In reality, Otto the Great won the battle and later became the first Holy Roman Emperor.
~ THIS IS A LIKELY OUTCOME, if there is a major military commander they will probably go east the reclaim their "ancestral" lands from which they were driven out by the pechnegs in a war with Byzantium.. (the Magyars were Byzantine allies).
But this may happen as the first move.
In which case great Moravia, inhabited by Slavs remains where Hungary is now populated by the Slovenes-Slovaks-Slavonians - their names come from the same root.
~ A very different set-up for Europe, butterflying the later Turk-European wars back and forth. With more social connection rather than a Hungarian buffer, the wars could spread. Or, they could blow up into a single war deciding an end rather than centuries of frontier battles.
~ it is also possible Constantinople would be retaken and the Turks kicked out of Europe.
~ With no Magyars, the setup would be very different. A lot of the strain on the Austro-Hungarian Empire in its latter years came from Magyar attempts to "Magyarize" the non-Magyar subjects of the Hungarian Crown.
~ yes, there would just be a lot of Germans, Transylvanians and Slavs. The problems inA-H did come from Magyar attents to "Magyarise" other non-Magyar minorities.
~ On a literary note...I wonder if Frank Herbert got the name of the wicked Harkonnens from the term "Harka." Sci fi authors do that kind of a thing a lot.
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