The Eighth Tribe, 1977 (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1977-02-01 / 2. szám
February, 1977 THE EIGHTH TRIBE Page 9 PAUL ST. MIKLOSSY 1903 — 1977 it is with deep regret and sorrow we have to report the passing of Paul St. Miklossy. Paul St. Miklossy died on January 29, 1977 in Washington, D.C. Presently he was the treasurer of the Hungarian Reformed Federation for 16 years; also he was treasurer of the American Hungarian Federation. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Ilona Turi, two sons and a daughter with their families (10 grandchildren). Also two brothers with their families. Paul will be missed not only by his family, but by all the Hungarian Community. HUNGARIAN RADIO PROGRAM WEDO — 810 AM, McKeesport, Pa. Sunday afternoon: 2:45 to 3:00 — Worship Service — Sponsored by the Western Pennsylvania Hungarian Protestant Churches. 3:00 to 3:30 — Hungarian Hour — Host: Dr. Victor Molnár. side, in the area between the Ob and the Irtysh rivers, on the one hand, and the Ural Mountains, on the other. Later, however, it extended over to the European side, right into the region of the Middle Volga and the Kama rivers. While most scholars still hold the above view, others (including Professor László) believe that Magyar proto-history — at least for the Finno-Ugric branch of the later Magyars — evolved simply in Northeastern Europe. In their view, during the “Uralic” and “Finno-Ugric” periods of their evolution, these Uralic peoples were scattered over a wide belt of territory that stretched from today’s Eastern Poland to the northeastern bend of the Volga, at the confluence of the Kama River. This belt — which coincides exactly with the recently discovered hunting-fishing cultural area of the so-called Svyder people — included both the southern fringes of the taiga (coniferous forests mingled with swamps), and the northern fringes of the broadleaf forests of today’s European Russia. But the reshaping of the Ugors and certain Turkic elements into the Magyars of the later centuries took place on a much smaller territory. In all probability it occurred on the area immediately to the west and south of the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers; although it may also have occurred on the eastern or left bank of the Volga, immediately next to the above territory. It was there where they mixed with a number of Turkic tribes. It was there where they acquired much of their Turkic traditions and the habits of horse nomads. And it was from there that they began their move to the South and Southwest in the seventh century A.D.; a move that climaxed in the late ninthcentury conquest of the Carpathian Basin. As we shall see in a later chapter, in all probability some of them have reached the area of future Hungary already in the seventh century. These were the Magyars — up to now generally known as the “Late Avars” — who were responsible for the so-called “first conquest” of Hungary, mentioned in Hungarian national chronicles, and hitherto generally attributed to the Hunnic conquest of the fifth century A.D. But as recent evidence seems to indicate, these Late Avars were in fact Magyars, who conquered the Carpathian Basin as early as 671 A.D. And while some of them were undoubtedly scattered after Charlemagne’s destruction of their empire around 800 A.D., and many of them were absorbed by other people of the area, the majority of them were still there two centuries later, when a new wave of Magyars came under the leadership of Prince Árpád and several other Magyar princes. 14 — to be continued WDUQ — 90.5 FM, Pittsburgh, Pa. Saturday evening, 6 to 7 o’clock: “Music from Europe” — Host: Dr. Victor Molnár. Three generation of the Kerekes family Toledo, Ohio. James F., James F., Jr. and James F. Ill served in the United States Army overseas operations in three different. Wars.
