A History of Central Eastern Europe

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9,000 B.C.E. THROUGH 500 C.E.Admittedly, covering a period of 9,500 years in the space of a single page means that manydetails are doomed to remain unmentioned. All-in-all, this is a “good thing” as it turns out sincevirtually all of those unmentioned details on this page are, quite by happenstance, alsounmentioned in every written record available to us! So, with a broad and sweeping stroke, alittle opinion-forming and brevity unheard of even in Cliff’s Notes © - a quick trip over 10millennia wait!The land that we know as Central Eastern Europe was not a forested, depopulated region beforethe Slavic tribes emerged from the east during the 1 st half of the 1 st millennium of the current era(C.E.). Evidence of habitation exists as far back as the Neolithic Age (~9000 B.C.E.). The firstmention of the earliest recorded tribe referred to the Kotiner, a tribe traced to the “Iberian”people. Unfortunately this source failed to expand on the Kotiner in ways that will shortlybecome quite clear.(1) When one hears “Iberia” a vision of Spain (or James Michener) comes tomind (or at least it should be one). And rightfully so as it was the Iberians that populated theMediterranean coast of today’s Spain. In certain parts of the world, notably the country ofGEORGIA, a very different image may come to mind – that of the ancient Georgian kingdom ofKARTLI (4 th c B.C.E.), covering roughly the southern and eastern parts of today’s GEORGIA.Why? Because the extant Greek and Roman writings name the subjects of that kingdom Iberiansas well; specifically Caucasian Iberians so as to not get confused (Personally, I would havechosen a completely different word, say, Kartlians, but that’s just me). The two are verydifferent people that lived in two very different places. This same source assumed a SpanishIberian definition was the right one for reasons not shared but a semi-close look indicates that thebetter choice of Grandma and Grandpa may be to the East with the Caucasian Iberians.Following this conclusion, an even closer look led me to chuck the whole Iberian premisecompletely – no other source mentions a Kotiner tribe – ever.But many sources mention a Cotini tribe and given a Celtic origin which jives with the knownCeltic expansion in this area from the 5 th c B.C.E forward. This tribe was the driving forcebehind the development of the PÚCHOV culture in northern and central SLOVAKIA between the2 nd c B.C.E. and the 1 st c C.E. Centered on HAVRÁNOK, where a wooden hill fort was built in the1 st c B.C.E. was uncovered by archeologists in the 1960s, the Cotini makes much more sense.Following the Celts came Germanic tribes – first the smaller Sidonian, Naristian and Burentribes in the 1 st c B.C.E. which were followed by the larger Quaden and Markomannen tribes.This German domination lasted until the 4 th c C.E. and many are thought to have joined theirkinsmen, the Lombards, as they journeyed down the Apennine Peninsula and became theLongobardos of the KINGDOM OF SICILY.2b
ZEMPLÉN, HUNGARY (JOINT) SPIŠ, SLOVAKIA Principate of Nitra 820 – 833 Moravian State (Greater Moravia) 833 – 846▪ Balaton Principality 839 - 876 Kingdom of Moravia (East Francia) 846 – 870 Great Moravian Empire 870 – 907 Kingdom of Hungary 1000 – 1526 Royal Hungary 1526 – 1686 Kingdom of Hungary 1686 – 1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867 – 1918 Czechoslovak Republic 1918 – 1939 Slovak Republic 1939 – 1945 Czechoslovak Socialist Republic 1945 – 1992▪ Kingdom of Hungary (Regency) 1918 – 1948▪ People’s Republic of Hungary 1949 – 1989▪ Third Republic of Hungary 1989 – 2009 The Slovak Republic 1993 – 2009≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈Hosszu’la’z, the Kingdom of Hungary,Origins of the Hunnic & Magyar Tribe,And theHabsburg House of AustriaThere exists much confusion about the people that would come to inhabit the DanubianPlain. And this confusion is understandable – common sense would lead one to believe thatHUNgary had something to do with the HUNs, wouldn’t it? Apparently it doesn’t. Attila the Hun… wasn’t. He was Hunnic. Then there’s the 7 th century Bulgar/Avar land of Onoguria, not toofar from Hungary. Today’s “true” Hungarian ancestor lies not with the Huns but with theMagyars, another tribe that came from the East. And there are multiple theories regarding theexistence of the Magyar in the Carpathian basin.Much of what follows contradicts “current” thought, however this current thoughtoriginated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Before the time when it waspolitically advantageous to portray the Hungarian population as being inferior to the WesternGermanic nobility that had come to rule through the Austrian House of Habsburg, a completelydifferent school of thought had existed for several centuries.Much of what you are about to read is based on recent and better understandings oflinguistics. Much is found in writings from the 18 th century and earlier and is receiving newsupport as archeological research progresses. 1 3
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