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Front matter
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
PART FOUR RECENT RESEARCH AND STUDIES
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TRANSLATOR'S NOTES
PART ONE A METHODOLOGlCAL lNTRODUCTION AND THE SOURCES
1.Terminology, methods
2.Chronology and chronological assumptions
3.The role ofth e natural sciences in establishing chronology
4.Other ancillary disciplines in establishing chronology
1. The concept of source material
2. Source criticism
3. The written sources
4. The language as a source
5. The archaeological sources
6. Ethnographic sources
7. The anthropological sources
PART TWO RELATIVES AND NEIGHBOURS
1. Linguistic relationship
2. The Uralic languages and peoples
1. Early lndo-European languages and peoples
2. The Xiongnu and the Huns
3. The early Turkic peoples
4.The Slavonic peoples
V. EURASIA IN THE 9TH AND 10TH CENTURIES
1.The end oft he Uighur Empire
2.The Khitai and China
3.The Kharakhanids and the Black Khitai
4.The Oghuz and the Seljuk
6.Byzantium and the Danube Bulghars
7.Rome and the Franks
8.The Avars and Slavs in the Carpathian Basin
9.The Carpathian Basin on the eve oft he Conquest
PART THREE FROM THE URALS TO THE CARPATHlAN BASlN
VI. THE NAMES OF THE MAGYARS BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF STATE
VII. URHEIMATS AND MIGRATION
VIII. THE CONQUEST
IX. THE MAGYARS IN THE CARPATHIAN BASlN
X. THE INTEGRATION OF THE MAGYARS WITHIN EUROPE
XII. AN OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY OF ANCIENT HUNGARIAN HISTORY
XIII. THE LEVEDl QUESTION AND THE EARLIEST HUNGARIAN CHRONICLE
XIV. HISTORICAL TRADITIONS, ATTILA AND THE HUNNISH-MAGYAR KINSHIP
XV. THE EAST MAGYARS, THE BASHKIRIAN TRIBAL NAMES AND YUGRIA
XVI. THE SZÉKELY RUNIFORM SCRIPT
APPENDICES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHART OF RULERS
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES
INDEX OF WORDS, ETHNIC AND TRIBAL NAMES
LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES AND PLATES
SOURCES OF MAPS, FIGURES AND PLATES
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