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thelessum  (View posts) Posted: 1 Jan 2012 4:52AM GMT
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Known as Jazigies in English. The original Hungarian name Jasz may have come from the word; ijjaas=archer(eeeyass).Nomadic,fierce horseman,beaten and setled by king Saint Laszlo the 1.Language and culture lost totaly assimilated to Hungarian miths and legends. However very proud and independent as they never been serfs.Their freedom was given in a royal bull in exchange for serving the king with horse and sword when needed. Somewhere between the kozeks in Russia and the yeomans in England.Closely related to the Cumini (kun)
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