Szabolcs (name)
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Szabolcs [IPA|ˈsɒbolʧ] is an ancient Hungarian
name of probably Turkic
origin. It is not known what the name has meant. The name is still very popular, its namesday is July 28.
Szabolcs was also the name of one of the leaders of the Magyars, the nephew of Árpád
. He is also said to have been the second great leader of the Magyars. His power center was the now
unimportant village Szabolcs
, where earthen ramparts from this age have been excavated. His people settled in the area known as Szabolcs county
.
Some of the oldest attestations of the name are to be found in the founding charter of the Dömös abbey (A dömösi prépostság adománylevele) (1138/1329): sobolci and in Anonymus
' Gesta Hungarorum
: zobolchu (12th/13th c.)
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
name of probably Turkic
Turkic languages
The Turkic languages constitute a language family of at least thirty five languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.Turkic languages are spoken...
origin. It is not known what the name has meant. The name is still very popular, its namesday is July 28.
Szabolcs was also the name of one of the leaders of the Magyars, the nephew of Árpád
Árpád
Árpád was the second Grand Prince of the Hungarians . Under his rule the Hungarian people settled in the Carpathian basin. The dynasty descending from him ruled the Hungarian tribes and later the Kingdom of Hungary until 1301...
. He is also said to have been the second great leader of the Magyars. His power center was the now
unimportant village Szabolcs
Szabolcs (village)
The village Szabolcs lies in the county Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg in the north-east of Hungary.It got its name from the Hungarian leader Szabolcs who founded it and settled there in the 9th/10th century...
, where earthen ramparts from this age have been excavated. His people settled in the area known as Szabolcs county
Szabolcs (county)
Szabolcs is the name of a historic administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary in present-day northeastern Hungary. The capital of the county was Nyíregyháza.-Geography:...
.
Some of the oldest attestations of the name are to be found in the founding charter of the Dömös abbey (A dömösi prépostság adománylevele) (1138/1329): sobolci and in Anonymus
Anonymus (chronicler)
Bele Regis Notarius , most often referred to as Anonymus was the notary and chronicler of a Hungarian King, probably Béla III. Little is known about him, but his latinized name began with P, as he referred to himself as "P...
' Gesta Hungarorum
Gesta Hungarorum
Gesta Hungarorum is a record of early Hungarian history by an unknown author who describes himself as Anonymi Bele Regis Notarii , but is generally cited as Anonymus...
: zobolchu (12th/13th c.)