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Fajsz

Grand Prince of the Hungarians from c. 950 to c. 955 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fajsz
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Fajsz (Hungarian: [ˈfɒjs]), also Falicsi ([ˈfɒlit͡ʃi]), was Grand Prince of the Hungarians from about 950 to around 955. All information on him comes from De administrando imperio, a book written by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. No other contemporary source or later Hungarian chronicle preserved his name, suggesting that he did not take an active role in the politics of the Hungarian tribes' confederation.

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Life

Fajsz was the only known son of Jutotzas, the third son of Árpád who led the Hungarian tribes' confederation at the time of their conquest of the Carpathian Basin between around 895 and 907.[1] After Árpád's death,[2] fundamental changes happened in the government of the tribal confederation.[3] Although the various tribes could even thereafter act in concert for raids, they did not obey a strong central authority any more.[4]

Even so, as the historian Miklós Molnár emphasizes, "the supremacy of the House of Árpád seems to have remained unshaken."[2] For instance, Hungarian visitors to Constantinople  including Termatzus, a great-grandson[5] of Árpád  informed Emperor Constantine VII around 948 that the "first chief" of the Hungarians "comes by succession of Árpád's family".[6][4] Constantine VII also mentions that Fajsz was the head of the confederation of the Hungarian tribes around 950. The historian Gyula Kristó proposes that Fajsz abdicated after the Hungarians' catastrophic defeat by the Germans in the battle of Lechfeld in 955.[7][4]

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Name and legacy

Fajsz's name, which was preserved in two forms  "Phalitzi" and "Phalis"  [8] may be connected either to the Hungarian word for "half" (fél) or to the verb fal ("to gobble up").[9] Historian György Györffy proposes that the villages named Fajsz in the Carpathian Basin  for instance, the one in Bács-Kiskun County (Hungary)  were named after him.[8] Based on the recorded Phalitzi form of Fajsz's name, Gyula Kristó rejects this hypothesis.[8]

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