Géza depicted on the lower part, or Corona Graeca, of the Holy Crown of Hungary with the Greek inscription

ΓΕΩΒΙΤΖΑϹ ΠΙΣΤΟϹ ΚΡΑΛΗϹ ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑϹ

GEOVITZAS PISTOS KRALIS TOURKIAS

(“Géza, faithful king of the land of the Turks”).

King of Hungary
contested by Solomon
Reign 1074–1077
Coronation 1075
Predecessor Solomon
Successor Ladislaus I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9za_I_of_Hungary

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Avrasya Bir Foundation board member Levent Ağaoğlu first wrote to you about the brain question.

“The north of the Black Sea, which was known as TURKAE by Herodotus in Anatolia in 500 BC, was also called by the same name by the Romans Pomponius and Pilinius in 100 BC. He then talks about Byzantine TOURKIA, Hungary and Ukraine. What is left to us in Eastern Europe from these denominations?” 

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Hungarian is the name of one of the 10 tribes who migrated there. However, as its population increased and spread over time, the word Hungarian was settled in the late Middle Ages as a self-naming. Otherwise, Hungarian is not their top name, it is only the name of one of the 10 tribes and tribes. What is the common name of all of them; Turkish. On the other hand, the word Ten Boy Oğur. Oğur means boy in Old Turkish. The Ten Sons are referred to as the Ten Boys, the Ten Sons. When we say On Oğur, Ongur, Ungur, Ungar, the Ungar form took that form in late Latin sources.

In France, there was a Hungar with an H in front of it, the word Ungar. England took the word from there in English and Spanish took the word from France in its Hungar form. It has nothing to do with Hun. One feature of French is that they put the H, but they do not read it, they find it unnecessary. But the British do. Yes, the Spaniards are studying, too, the Germans, but Ungarın says, he is not there. Poles call it Vegır, Russians call it Venger. The Serbs call them Ugor. The common name they gave themselves was Turk. because the sources mentioning them in the early Middle Ages call them Onoğur, Onboy or Türk. They never say Hungarian, not even one mentions Hungarian in any medieval source. Hungarian, as I said, is a later designation.

Even the Papacy and Istanbul are two churches, to persuade the Hungarians to get their hearts. Even if they have become Christians, it is necessary to take their hearts, they will give a gift, a common gift. The common gift of Istanbul and Rome. It is being prepared there, it is coming to Istanbul, the second part is being prepared. They are written in co-production Greek.

Yavitsas pistos kraves Turkias.
To Turkey’s Loyal King YagBuca, Geyza.

First Geza, the crown that was sent to him. This Crown is currently privately guarded in the Hungarian parliament building, let’s not get into the details.

There is such a thing that there is even a proverb, in other places the king is sought for the crown, here the king is sought for the crown. The main thing is the crown. So whoever wears that crown is the King. And Hungarians are ready to respect him. The crown is essential, not man, but whatever he is. The text on it is important, it is sent 180 years after the Hungarians came to the Crown. They’re already on the banks of the Don river. They came from eastern Ukraine to the Middle Danube, they did not come from a distant place.

They lived there for 500 years from Bashkortostan to the Don rivers, and from there to the Don rivers in the 460s, after the Huns were destroyed, then to the Middle Danube. They are not a people that Byzantium has always known, that is, they are not a community that came from afar and descended from the unknown. Moreover, the Crown is sent 180 years after they settled in the Middle Danube tribes. If the Byzantines could not learn the name of the people who were neighbors of Byzantium for 600-700 years and accidentally wrote Turkish, it is halal. If they made such a blunder. Of course, a diplomatic gift is such a precious gift.

On it is written

Kiraves Turkiyas, King of Turks

You probably can’t have written this with an error.

Immigration of Magyars in AD 893 https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarlar#/media/Dosya:Honfoglalas.gif

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Oleksandr Palii, A History of Ukraine, 27.12.2017 

EPISODE SEVEN HERE

By the 6th century BC, Persia (now Iran) became the most powerful state in the ancient world, having conquered Lydia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and part of India. Persia became the first superpower of the world simultaneously on three continents — Asia, Europe and Africa.

The army of the Persian Emperor Darius I invaded Scythia in 513 BC. Herodotus wrote about 700,000 Persian soldiers, not counting ship crews, and 600 ships. Bridges were built over the Bosporus Strait and the Lower Danube for the Persians.

In response to a demand of surrender, the Scythians sent a bird, a frog, a mouse and five arrows to the Persian king. This signified, according to the historian, “Unless you take to the air, like a bird; to the earth, like a mouse; or to the water, like a frog, you will become the victim of the Scythian arrows.”

Gold plate, 4th century BC, with an image of a Scythian wearing sharovary (wide trousers). Sharovary are a part of the traditional Ukrainian costume

The Scythians initially retreated before the Persian army, driving away their cattle, filling wells with earth and burning the steppe. In southern Ukraine, there are still place names associated with Darius I and his campaign — Darievy Mist (Bridge of Darius) and Darievy Brid (Ford of Darius). The Persians advanced all the way to the Don River. However, overwhelmed by the victorious heroism of the Scythians, the Persian king fled during a decisive battle, leaving the wounded behind.

It turned out that the world’s biggest superpower could not wage war against Scythia with impunity. Pursuing the enemy, the Scythian army reached the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The Scythians made a pact against Persians with Sparta, the most powerful Greek state at the time. According to Herodotus, the Spartan king became drunk during negotiations with the Scythians, because he drank, together with envoys, pure wine, while the Greek custom was to dilute wine with water. Since then, the Greeks said “pour in the Scythian style” when they drank undiluted wine.

Gold hair comb from the Solokha Scythian burial mound (southern Ukraine) depicting a battle of the Scythians, 4th century BC, 294 grams, kept in the Russian Hermitage

In 334 BC, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great started his military campaign, advancing to the east. He defeated the huge army of the Persian Empire, taking the Persian royal family captive, subjugated Asia Minor, Phoenicia, Palestine, Syria and Egypt, and was preparing to go to India.

Alexander ordered Zopyrion, his governor in Thrace (the territory of modern Bulgaria), to go and help along the northern coast of the Black Sea. The Macedonians planned to conquer the Scythians and the Greek city of Olbia (now in Mykolaiv Oblast). Zopyrion’s 30,000-strong army besieged the city but was unable to take it, with the Scythians in the rear. As the Macedonian army retreated, it was defeated by the Scythians near the Dniester estuary. At the time, it was the only defeat of the invincible Macedonia.

Scythian coin of King Ateas, 4th century BC

For centuries after this event, enemies preferred not to touch Scythia. In the 4th century BC, the Greek historian Thucydides called the Scythians “the strongest not only in Europe but also in Asia”.

The Scythian state survived until the 4th century AD. Later, the Scythians dissolved among related peoples, the Sarmatians and the Slavs.

States that later emerged in the territory of Ukraine — the Hun Empire and Kyivan Rus’ — considered themselves to be successors of Great Scythia. 

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