At school, we learned that when the Tatars ravaged Kunar, King Kuthen of Kun fled to Hungary with his people of forty thousand families, and IV. Our King Béla settled them on the fertile plains of the Great Plain, where the descendants of these Kunks still live today in Nagy- and Kiskunság. "When I thought back on these words with a more mature mind, it involuntarily occurred to me: how could the "fertile wasteland of the Great Plains" be so uninhabited that forty thousand families could still live on it IV. Béla to place? I couldn't answer this question for a long time. Once I came across some old maps that showed Nagykunság and its surroundings as a kind of sea. Here and there the maps showed islands and dry land, but the borders of the individual villages were mostly under water. I got my hands on a border description made in 1699, from which it turned out that this entire landscape was covered with reeds, sedges, and mats, and according to the German describer: "The inhabitants could only go from one place to another with sledges. "

National Heritage Publishing House
Social science
194 pages
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 9786155797743
Author: István Győrffy
Year of publication: 1900