Gesta Hungarorum
by Anonymus Belae Regis Notarius
Gesta Hungarorum is the oldest surviving Hungarian chronicle, written in Latin around 1200 to 1230 by an unnamed royal notary known as Anonymus. It tells of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin. It was first printed in 1746; its sole manuscript is in Budapest.
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Gesta Hungarorum by Anonymus Belae Regis Notarius was first published in 1746.
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