User:Qorilla/Hungarian double conquest hypothesis
The double conquest hypothesis by Hungarian archeologist professor Gyula László (1910-1998) states that the Hungarian people arrived to the Carpathian Basin in two waves. The first one around 670 AD, and the other one being the well-known conquest of 895 led by Árpád.
According to Gyula László:
What we have been learning and teaching about the Hungarian conquest, is all true. Nothing has changed it that. The history about the 896 conquest stands firm; what my proposition appends, is that the Hungarians of Árpád already found mostly Hungarian population in the Carpathian Basin, who came here before them, around the 670s. [1]
— Gyula László
The hypothesis is still not fully accepted by the scientific community. Hungarian historian György Györffy (1917-2000) wrote
the hypotesis of a double or multiple conquest is just as much not confirmed by historical and linguistic sources as it is not compatible with the newest finds about the formation of nations.[2]
— Gyögy Györffy
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