Kik a palócok?
Who are the Palócs?

Views, opinions on the issue of origin

Summary/Abstract: The author writes a monograph (At the Land of the Palóc) about a strange people, the Palóc, living in the northern part of Hungary and in Southern Slovakia. In this study the author examines the question of the origin of the Palóc people. He presents the opinion of the classics of Palóc research and the Hungarian prehistory: Fábián Szeder, Sándor Pintér, János Jerney, Gyula Pauler Ármin Vámbéry. According to Fábian Szeder, the Palóc people arrived with the Magyars under Árpád in the 9th century. János Jerney accepts this opinion, but he adds that the Palóc are descendants of the Cumans. Ármin Vámbéry agrees with this but according to him the Palóc arrived in the Carpathian Basin after the 9th century. Gyula Pauler does not accept the Cuman origin. In his opinion the paloc ancestors are the Kabars. Sándor Pintér, the proud Palóc, claims that the Palóc people are descended from Scythian, Hun, Avar and already they lived in the Carpathian Basin at the time of the Conquest. Then the author presents other opinion as well. We know the results of a Slovak researcher, Jozef Škultéty. And he presents the results of anthropology (Lajos Bartucz and Gyula Henkey). We know the theory of Gyula László about the „double Conquest” in connection with Palóc people and the study presents who the Cumans are. At the end of the study the author asks who is right and he tries to answer that question.

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