Английская Википедия:Fajsz
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Fajsz (Шаблон:IPA-hu), also Falicsi (Шаблон:IPA-hu), was Grand Prince of the Hungarians from about 950 to around 955. All information on him comes from De administrando imperio, a book written by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. No other contemporary source or later Hungarian chronicle preserved his name, suggesting that he did not take an active role in the politics of the Hungarian tribes' confederation.
Life
Fajsz was the only known son of Jutotzas, the third son of Árpád who led the Hungarian tribes' confederation at the time of their conquest of the Carpathian Basin between around 895 and 907.Шаблон:Sfn After Árpád's death,Шаблон:Sfn fundamental changes happened in the government of the tribal confederation.Шаблон:Sfn Although the various tribes could even thereafter act in concert for raids, they did not obey a strong central authority any more.Шаблон:Sfn
Even so, as the historian Miklós Molnár emphasizes, "the supremacy of the House of Árpád seems to have remained unshaken."Шаблон:Sfn For instance, Hungarian visitors to ConstantinopleШаблон:Spaced ndashincluding Termatzus, a great-grandsonШаблон:Sfn of ÁrpádШаблон:Spaced ndash informed Emperor Constantine VII around 948 that the "first chief" of the Hungarians "comes by succession of Árpád's family".[1]Шаблон:Sfn Constantine VII also mentions that Fajsz was the head of the confederation of the Hungarian tribes around 950. The historian Gyula Kristó proposes that Fajsz abdicated after the Hungarians' catastrophic defeat by the Germans in the battle of Lechfeld in 955.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Name and legacy
Fajsz's name, which was preserved in two formsШаблон:Spaced ndash"Phalitzi" and "Phalis"Шаблон:Spaced ndashШаблон:Sfn may be connected either to the Hungarian word for "half" (fél) or to the verb fal ("to gobble up").Шаблон:Sfn Historian György Györffy proposes that the villages named Fajsz in the Carpathian BasinШаблон:Spaced ndashfor instance, the one in Bács-Kiskun County (Hungary)Шаблон:Spaced ndashwere named after him.Шаблон:Sfn Based on the recorded Phalitzi form of Fajsz's name, Gyula Kristó rejects this hypothesis.Шаблон:Sfn
See also
References
Sources
- Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (Greek text edited by Gyula Moravcsik, English translation by Romillyi J. H. Jenkins) (1967). Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies. Шаблон:ISBN.
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Further reading
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- ↑ Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (ch. 40), p. 179.
