Colonizarea secuilor în estul Transilvaniei
The Colonization of the Szeklers in the East of Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: This population of Turkic origin belonging to the Hungarian confederation of tribes settled in Pannonia had always the mission to protect the borders, or to be the vanguard in the campaigns. The first territory occupied by Szeklers was in Crişana, in the 10th century. After the conquest of the Transylvanian duchy, the Szeklers were moved in several steps to the east, according to the expansion of the Hungarian kingdom. The natural limit of the Carpathians was reached by the middle of the 12th century. In the eastern part of Transylvania, the final settlement place, the Szeklers entered in contact with the preexistent Romanian population. Together with the other colonists, the Saxons, the Romanians and the Szeklers defended the eastern border of the kingdom. A part of the Romanian population was assimilated by the Szeklers in the following centuries.

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