The
Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin, also
Hungarian conquest or
Hungarian land-taking (: "conquest of the homeland") was a series of historical events ending with the settlement of the
Hungarian people in
Central Europe at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. Before the arrival of the Hungarians, three early medieval powers, the
First Bulgarian Empire,
East Francia and
Moravia had fought each other for control of the
Carpathian Basin. They occasionally hired Hungarian horsemen as soldiers. Therefore, the Hungarians who dwelled in the eastern regions of the
Pontic steppes were familiar with their future homeland when their "land-taking" started.