HUNGARIANS: A. D. 900-924. Ravages in Italy. See ITALY: A. D. 900-924. HUNGARIANS: A. D. 934-955. Repulse from Germany. "The deliverance of Germany and Christendom was achieved by the Saxon princes, Henry the Fowler and Otho the Great, who, in two memorable battles, forever broke the power of the Hungarians." Twenty years after their defeat by Henry the Fowler (A. D. 934) the Hungarians invaded the empire of his son (A. D. 955), "and their force is defined, in the lowest estimate, at 100,000 horse. They were invited by domestic faction; the gates of Germany were treacherously unlocked, and they spread, far beyond the Rhine and the Meuse, into the heart of Flanders. But the vigour and prudence of Otho dispelled the conspiracy; the princes were made sensible that, unless they were true to each other, their religion and country were irrecoverably lost; and the national powers were reviewed in the plains of Augsburg. They marched and fought in eight legions, according to the division of provinces and tribes [Bavarians, Franconians, Saxons, Swabians, Bohemians]. … The Hungarians were expected in the front; they secretly passed the Lech, a river of Bavaria that falls into the Danube, turned the rear of the Christian army, plundered the baggage, and disordered the legions of Bohemia and Swabia. The battle [near Augsburg, August 10, 955] was restored by the Franconians, whose duke, the valiant Conrad, was pierced with an arrow as he rested from his fatigues; the Saxons fought under the eyes of their king, and his victory surpassed, in merit and importance, the triumphs of the last two hundred years. The loss of the Hungarians was still greater in the flight than in the action; they were encompassed by the rivers of Bavaria; and their past cruelties excluded them from the hope of mercy." _E. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire chapter 55._ ALSO IN: _W. Menzel, History of Germany, chapter 135 (volume 1)._ _Sir F. Palgrave, History of Normandy and England, volume 2, pages 656-665._ _A. W. Grube, Heroes of History and Legend, chapter 8._ ----------HUNGARIANS: End-------- HUNGARY: Ancient. See DACIA, and PANNONIA. HUNGARY: The Huns in possession. See HUNS. HUNGARY: The Avars in possession. See AVARS. HUNGARY: A. D. 972-1114. Christianization of the Magyars. Kingship conferred on the Duke by the Pope. Annexation of Croatia and conquest of Dalmatia.