See also:

• SZEKLERS, or SZEKELS (Szekely, Lat. Siculi)

SZEKLERS, or SZEKELS (Szekely, See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• SICULI

Siculi)  , a Finno-Ugrian See also:

• PEOPLE

people of Transylvania, akin to the See also:

• MAGYARS

Magyars . They See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a compact See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of rather more than 450,000, extending from near See also:

• KRONSTADT

Kronstadt on the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south to Maros-Vasarhely and Gyerg6 St Mikl6s on the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north . Their origin is unknown and has been the subject of much learned debate . Their own See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient tradition affirms their descent from See also:

• ATTILA (d. 453)

Attila's See also:

• HUNS

Huns . According to See also:

• PROCOPIUS

Procopius (De belle gothico, iv . 18) 3000 Huns entered Transylvania (Erdeleu, i.e. the Magyar Erdely) after their defeat "calling themselves, not Hungarians, but Zekul," and the See also:

• SZEKLERS, or SZEKELS (Szekely, Lat. Siculi)

Szeklers were the descendants of the Huns who stayed in Transylvania till the return of their kinsmen under Arpad; the See also:

• ANONYMOUS

anonymous See also:

• SCRIBE, AUGUSTIN EUGENE (1791-1860, French dramatist, was born in Paris on the 24th of December 1791. His father was a silk merchant, and he was well educated, being destined for the bar. But, having a real gift for the theatre, a gift which unfortunately

scribe of See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• BELA
• BELA, LAS BELA

Bela speaks of them as " formerly Attila's folk." Von Rethy (Ung . Rev. vii . 812) suggests that they were originally a See also:

• BAND

band of See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

Black Ugrian who sought See also:

• REFUGE

refuge in Transylvania after their defeat by the Pechenegs . See also:

• TIMON
• TIMON (c. 320-230)

Timon, however (Magyar Alkotmhny es Jogtortenet, p . 75), points out that their See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language proves that their separation from the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main Magyar stock must have taken See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place after the Magyar See also:

• TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue had been fully See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed (see also Hunfalvy, Magyarorszdg Ethnographidja, 200) . According to another theory they were Magyars transplanted by St See also:

• LADISLAUS [I.]

Ladislaus to Transylvania in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to form a permanent frontier guard . Some such origin would, indeed, seem to be implied by the name Szekel, if this be derived, as Czetneki surmises (" See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Szeklerfrage," Ung .

Rev. i .