Editing Hungary (section)

=== Before 895 ===
{{Main|Hungarian prehistory|Hungarian mythology}}
[[File:Pannonia térkép 2. század.jpg|thumb|Roman provinces and barbarian peoples in and near the [[Pannonian Basin|Carpathian Basin]] in the 2nd century AD|left]]

The [[Roman Empire]] conquered the territory between the [[Alps]] and the area west of the [[Danube]] River from 16 to 15 BC, the Danube being the frontier of the empire.<ref name="Kershaw">Kershaw, Stephen P. (2013). ''A Brief History of The Roman Empire: Rise and Fall. London.'' Constable & Robinson Ltd. {{ISBN|978-1-78033-048-8}}.</ref> In 14 BC, [[Pannonia]], the western part of the [[Pannonian Basin|Carpathian Basin]], which includes the west of today’s Hungary, was recognised by emperor [[Augustus]] in the ''[[Res Gestae Divi Augusti]]'' as part of the Roman Empire.<ref name="Kershaw" /> The area south-east of [[Pannonia]] was organised as the Roman province [[Moesia]] in 6 BC.<ref name="Kershaw" /> An area east of the river [[Tisza]] became the Roman province of [[Dacia]] in 106 AD, which included today's east Hungary. It remained under Roman rule until 271.<ref name="Scarre">Scarre, Chris (2012). ''Chronicle of the Roman Emperors: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Rome.'' London. Thames & Hudson Ltd. {{ISBN|978-0-500-28989-1}}.</ref>

{{History of Hungary}}
From 235, the Roman Empire went through troubled times, caused by revolts, rivalry and rapid succession of emperors. The Western Roman Empire collapsed in the 5th century under the stress of the migration of [[Germanic peoples|Germanic tribes]] and [[Carpi people|Carpian]] pressure.<ref name="Scarre" /> This period brought many invaders into Central Europe, beginning with the [[Huns|Hunnic Empire]] ({{circa|370}}–469). The most powerful ruler of the Hunnic Empire was [[Attila]] the Hun (434–453), who later became a central figure in Hungarian mythology.<ref name="Kelly">Kelly, Christopher (2008). ''Attila The Hun: Barbarian Terror and The Fall of The Roman Empire.'' London. The Bodley Head. {{ISBN|978-0-224-07676-0}}.</ref> After the disintegration of the Hunnic Empire, the [[Gepids]], an Eastern Germanic tribe, who had been vassalised by the Huns, established their own kingdom in the Carpathian Basin.<ref name="Bona_The_Gepids_during_and_after_the_Hun_Period">{{cite book|last=Bóna|first=István|editor1-last=Köpeczi|editor1-first=Béla|editor2-last=Barta|editor2-first=Gábor|editor3-last=Makkai|editor3-first=László|editor4-last=Mócsy|editor4-first=András|editor5-last=Szász|editor5-first=Zoltán|title=History of Transylvania|publisher=Hungarian Research Institute of Canada|year=2001|chapter=From Dacia to Transylvania: The Period of the Great Migrations (271–895); The Kingdom of the Gepids; The Gepids during and after the Hun Period|chapter-url=http://mek.oszk.hu/03400/03407/html/34.html|isbn=0-88033-479-7}}</ref> Other groups which reached the Carpathian Basin during the Migration Period were the [[Goths]], [[Vandals]], [[Lombards]], and [[Early Slavs|Slavs]].<ref name="Scarre" />

In the 560s, the [[Pannonian Avars|Avars]] founded the Avar Khaganate, a state that maintained supremacy in the region for more than two centuries. The [[Franks]] under [[Charlemagne]] defeated the Avars in a series of campaigns during the 790s.<ref name="Gubcsi">Lajos Gubcsi, [http://mek.oszk.hu/09100/09132/09132.pdf Hungary in the Carpathian Basin], MoD Zrínyi Media Ltd, 2011</ref> Between 804 and 829, the [[First Bulgarian Empire]] conquered the lands east of the Danube and took over the rule of the local Slavic tribes and remnants of the Avars.<ref name="Skutsch">Skutsch, Carl, ed. (2005). ''Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities.'' New York: Routledge. p. 158. {{ISBN|1-57958-468-3}}.</ref> By the mid-9th century, the [[Slavs in Lower Pannonia#Principality|Balaton Principality]], also known as Lower Pannonia, was established west of the Danube as part of the Frankish [[March of Pannonia]].<ref name="Luthar">Luthar, Oto, ed. (2008). ''The Land Between: A History of Slovenia.'' Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH. {{ISBN|9783631570111}}.</ref>