Otto I Defeats the Magyars
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Religion, Ethics, Military History
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Invasions, Raids, Conquests, Sieges, Barbarians, Nomads
- Curriculum: German History, Medieval History/Middle Ages, French History, Eastern European History
- Geographical Location: Germany, Balkans, Hungary, Pannonia
- Date: August 10, 955
Article abstract: Otto I defeats the Magyars and halts their raids of central Europe, encouraging their peaceful settlement in the plains of Hungary as a civilized and Christianized nation.
Summary of Event
Otto I, whom contemporaries named “the Great,” has been called “the Charlemagne of Germany proper.” His reign marked the beginning of Germany’s First Reich, known for almost a thousand years (until 1806) as the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations.
He inherited the kingship from his father Henry I, the Fowler. Although exercising...
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