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| Arpad, chief of the Magyars |
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( r´päd) (KEY) , c.840907?, chief of the Magyars. He led his people into Hungary c.895. The leaders of the Magyars and the first dynasty of Hungarian kings (St. Stephen I to Andrew III) were of the house of Arpad (see Hungary). |
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