Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin

The Hungarians first lived on the Black Sea and Caspian steppes in close contact with Turkic peoples, especially the Khazar Khaganate; the Kabar tribes, rebels from the Khazars, joined them.

At the end of the 9th century the Magyar tribes, led by Árpád, crossed the Carpathians and settled the Danube basin — the honfoglalás, or "conquest of the homeland" — and Árpád is popularly called the founder of the country.

Hungarian horsemen were renowned for mounted archery like other steppe peoples, a nomadic legacy that lives on in Hungary's mounted archery and the Kurultáj.