Kende (title)

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Kende , also Kündü , title of the sacred king of the Magyars in the 9th century.

The name is derived from the Khazar KNDR khagan off the after khagan (Grand Duke) and the khagan bh (Beg) third-highest leader of the nomadic Khazars. From them the Magyars, who were part of the Central Asian Khazar Empire for centuries, assumed the dual leadership of a sacred or ceremonial ( kende ) and a military leader ( gyula ). The most famous Kende is Kursan from the time of the Hungarian conquest around 895.

literature

  • Hansgerd Göckenjan: Aid peoples and border guards in medieval Hungary. Stuttgart 1972, p. 30 f.
  • György Györffy: The Hungarians' conquest from a historical point of view. In: Michael Müller-Wille, Reinhard Schneider (Ed.): Selected problems of European land grabbing in the early and high Middle Ages. Part 2, 1994, pp. 67-78