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Hungarians must also be
understood, already before St.
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Stephen, as one of the people of
the great Eurasian cultural sphere,
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which included the heritage
of a Scythian ancient culture,
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along with our Finnish-Ugric
relations, and it is no
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coincidence that the Caucasian,
Byzantine cultural sphere had already
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touched Hungarians as a people,
so Hungarians didn’t appear in the
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Carpathian Basin without
cultural heritage as we imagine
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a simple herdsmen population.
The key to Hungary's becoming
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a European Christian cultural
state over a century is the
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root of Hungary's arrival not
as a simple population of herdsmen,
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but as a nation with a huge Persian,
Iranian and ancient cultural sphere,
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which is shown by our vocabulary.
Also by our artistic heritage,
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perhaps the crown itself brings us
close to the great cultural heritage
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that is concentrated in the region
of the Caucasus and in this area.
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So we were able to become a European
Christian culture nation so suddenly,
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with almost one turn at that time,
because it already had a
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base in the Hungarians.
So St. Stephen, building on
this intellectual cultural heritage,
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created the identification with
European Christian values in
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the Western European sense.
This was born on the
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basis of the state organization
that the great lord Géza
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had already politically recognized,
and in fact St. Stephen created
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this at an even higher level,
creating the Hungarian statehood,
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the Christian church,
which was then most likely the
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choice between Western Christian
and Byzantian influence.
