43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Are the Hungarians a nomadic, or an agrarian people? – Part 1. The skewed picture of Hungarians – reasons for historical tragedies and current problems. This study examines and argues these statements: The arrival of the Hungarian tribes to the Carpathian Basin put an end to the spread of the flourishing Slav religions. The Hungarians massacred everyone that came into their path, then settled down in their places. Was this really how it happened? Allegedly, even in 1996 certain Slavic neighbors referred to the Hungarians as ’thieving nomads’. A lecture given in 2006 by ethnographer, university professor, politician Andrásfalvy Bertalan who celebrates his 90th birthday on the 17th of November 2021.