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Árpád (ca. 850 - after 900) was the leader of the main proto-Magyar tribe and founder of the Arpad dynasty. Árpád was the son of Álmos.According to (not very reliable) medieval chronicles, seven proto-Magyar tribes elected him - as the leader of one of those tribes - their common leader in Etelköz around 887. He is said to have been the leader ("prince" - fejedelem) of the proto-Magyars for 20 years and to have died in 907.
The proto-Magyars followed approximately the route once used by the Huns to enter Europe from the Urals. After several looting raids in Europe (from the 860s onwards), the proto-Magyars under Árpád, pushed by the Pechenegs in the East, decided to definitively pass the Carpathian Mountains. In 896 they occupied the Upper Tisza river, from there they undertook numerous looting raids in central and western Europe, and in 900/901 they moved to Pannonia.
Árpád, as the first ruler of several proto-Magyar tribes, is also said to have been holding the first "parliamentary" session with 40 other nobles on horseback before 900 AD.The 40 nobles and Árpád represented an extended family that had migrated from somewhere around the Ural Mountains. Upon entering the Pannonian fields, they represented about 200,000 people who had been traveling from their original location for about 25 years. Considering losses along the way, approximately 500,000 people had gotten up and left. It is also known that three other Magyar speaking groups left this same area about the same time. One went west and north settling in what today is known as Lapland and Estonia. One went east and north and currently have descendants living in Siberia, somewhat north of Lake Baykal. A third group of about the same size as the one that departed for Hungary settled north of Iran. They were wiped out in the ensuing conflicts with the Mongolians and the Persians.
His children were probably Tarhos (Tarkacsu), Üllő (Jeleg), Jutas (Jutocsa), an unknown child and Zolta (Zaltasz).
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