The Hungarians, whose culture is the most markedly Oriental in origin among the cultures of present-day Europe, arrived in the Carpathian basin more than 1100 years ago. Their society, already but partially nomadic at the time of their arrival on the Hungarian plain, settled definitively during the 10th century and with the loosening of tribal bonds and of the federation of hordes there began the organization of a unified and centralized state. This process may certainly seem inevitable in historical retrospection only. In effect, the peoples and populations that arrived in the Carpathian basin between the age of the Magyar conquest (896) and the 13th century – Huns, Avars, Pechenegs, Cumans, the Oghuz etc. -, incapable of adapting themselves to the new, European socio-cultural context, slowly disappeared and, together with their military defeats, they were linguistically and culturally assimilated into the neighbouring ethnicities. In retrospect one can clearly argue that this was the fate that awaited Hungarians, too; the explanation why this did not happen can be found, first and foremost, in the initiatives of several outstanding members of the dynasty of chieftains, as well as in the ability that Hungarians proved in integrating the characteristic and determining features of Western, Christian civilization into their own culture, which reached the highest level among the cultures of the Central-Asian nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples.