History of Hungary: Primary Documents
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- History of the Arpád Period
- Source website for documents through 1301 listed below.
- (1000-1301; mostly modern Hungarian translations)
- King Steven I's First Code of Law
- (1001; modern Hungarian translation)
- Pannonhalma Charter
- (1002; modern Hungarian translation)
- King Steven I's Second Code of Law
- (1030-1038; modern Hungarian translation)
- King/Saint Steven's Admonitions to Prince Imre
- (early 11th century; modern Hungarian translation)
- Hexameters on the Coronation Cloak
- (1031; parallel Latin & modern Hungarian translation)
- About the Cruelty of King Peter
- Excerpt from the Chronicon Pictum (1358)
- (1038-1041; modern Hungarian translation)
- The Meeting in Várkony
- Excerpt from the Chronicon Pictum (1358)
- (ca. 1040 - 1050; modern Hungarian translation)
- The Battle of Kerlés
- Excerpt from the Chronicon Pictum (1358)
- (ca. 1040-1050; modern Hungarian translation)
- Deed of Foundation of Tihany
- (1055; modern Hungarian translation)
- Pope Gregory VII's Letters to King Salomon
- (1074-1075; modern Hungarian translations)
- László I's Code of Law
- (1077-1092; modern Hungarian translations)
- King Kálmán's so-called First Code of Law
- (ca. 1100; modern Hungarian translation)
- The Census of Dömös
- (3 September 1138; modern Hungarian translation)
- Report on the Death of a Hungarian Student Studying in Paris
- (Between 1177 and 1192; modern Hungarian translation)
- Eulogy and Prayer
- The oldest source document in Hungarian for its length
- (1192-1195; medieval Hungarian & modern Hungarian translations)
- Letter of King Imre to Pope Innocent III
- (At the end of 1199; modern Hungarian translation)
- Letter of King Andrew II to Pope Innocent III
- (At the end of 1214; modern Hungarian translation)
- The Golden Bull of King Andrew II
- Hungary's "Magna Carta"
- (1222; modern Hungarian translation)
- Available as an English translation with minor exclusions - see pages 129-130.
- (1222; English translation)
- Revised text of the Golden Bull
- (1231; modern Hungarian translation)
- The Agreement of Bereg
- (1233; modern Hungarian translation)
- Reports of Friar Julianus, plus a letter on "How the Tartars Live."
- (Early 13th century; modern Hungarian translations)
- Letter of Hungarian King Bela IV to King Konrad IV of Germany
- (1241; modern Hungarian translation)
- Hungarian Letter to the Pope
- (2 February 1242; modern Hungarian translation)
- King Béla IV and Sons' Code of Law
- (1267; modern Hungarian translation)
- King Steven V's Manumission for the 'Hospes' of Györ
- (1271; modern Hungarian translation)
- King László IV's First Code of Law
- (23 June 1279; modern Hungarian translation)
- The Battle of Morvamezö
- An excerpt from A magyarok viselt dolgai (A History of the Hungarians)
- (ca. 1283; modern Hungarian translation)
- King Andrew III's Code of Law
- (1290-1291 & 1298; modern Hungarian translations)
- Virtual Document Archive of Central European Cloisters and Bishoprics - Hungary
- Documenting not only the history of the cloisters themselves,
- but developments in church, state and society in Central Europe since the Early Middle Ages.
- (14th century; Latin and vernacular facsimiles and transcriptions).
- Peace Treaty ending the Thirty Years War.
- (24 October 1648, English translation)
- From the National Széchényi Library, digitized for Europeana, an online library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
- (18th- 21st century; facsimiles)
- From the Avalon Project
- (1829 - 1909; English translations and transcriptions)
- (1849-present; translations and transcriptions)
- This document is reprinted from Seton-Watson, R.W. The Southern Slav Question and the Habsburg Monarchy.
- London: Constable and Co., 1911. The translation is by Seton-Watson.
- The source is H-Net.
- (1868; English translation)
- Searchable book-length travel reports digitized at the University of Michigan.
- (19th-20th century; hundreds of facsimiles in many languages)
- Austro-Hungarian Documents on the Outbreak of War.
- (1 July 1914 - 27 August 1914; German with occasional French and English transcriptions)
- Diplomatic Documents leading to World War I.
- Section I, Nos 1-19, Appendices 1 and 2.
- (1914; English translations)
- (pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
- Major Resource
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1914-1919; translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1918-1941; translations)
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
- An archive of images and documents from the French perspective of World War II.
- Requires video software for the clips.
- (1940-1944; videos, photo images and transcriptions)
- A collection of documents related to WWII.
- From the Avalon Project.
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1938-1945; translations)
- Including treaties affecting the Hungarian border from the Treaty of Trianon to the Moscow Agreement.
- Published by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State
- (1920-1945; facsimiles)
- Also contains commentaries and annotations.
- A part of Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár -- Hungarian Electronic Library.
- (Translations and Hungarian transcriptions, some ftp-able)
- Hungarian history presented thematically -- mostly secondary articles, but with some source documents.
- (English translations)
- Found on the National Security Archive
- Declassified documents regarding Europe provided by the National Security Agency.
- Declassified CIA documents from Cold War Era Hard Target Analysis.
- (28 January 1957; PDF facsimiles)
- 1949, as updated to the present.
- (Hungarian transcription).
- 1949, as updated to 1997.
- (English and German translations).
- Includes laws and resolutions from 1990 to the present.
- (Hungarian transcriptions).
- Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
- (Translations and transcriptions)
- A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities
- (Facsimiles).
- Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
- (Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)
- Digitization projects in Hungary (and Eastern Europe), listed by Klaus Graf.
- (Scroll down to "Ungarn")
- (Facsimiles).
- (Facsimiles).
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