Szabolcs () is an ancient
Hungarian male name, probably of Hungarian or Hunnic origin. It is not known where the name derives from. The name is still very popular, its
namesday
In Christianity, a name day is a tradition in many countries of Europe and the Americas, among other parts of Christendom. It consists of celebrating a day of the year that is associated with one's baptismal name, which is normatively that of a ...
is July 28.
Szabolcs was also the name of one of the leaders of the
Magyars, the nephew of
Árpád
Árpád (; 845 – 907) was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. He might have been either the sacred ruler or '' kende'' of the Hungarians, or their military leader or '' g ...
. 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
Szabolcs was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory is now part of Hungary, except for three villages which are in the Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine. The capital of the county was Nyíregyháza.
Geography
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.
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 is the Latin spelling of anonymous, traditionally used by scholars in the humanities for any ancient writer whose name is not known, or to a manuscript of their work. Such writers have left valuable historical or literary records through ...
'
Gesta Hungarorum
''Gesta Hungarorum'', or ''The Deeds of the Hungarians'', is the earliest book about Hungarian history which has survived for posterity. Its genre is not chronicle, but ''gesta'', meaning "deeds" or "acts", which is a medieval entertaining li ...
: ''zobolchu'' (12th/13th century).
References
*http://magyarnevek.hu/nevek/ferfinevek/Sz/Szabolcs
*http://www.keresztnevek.hu/jelent%C3%A9se/SZABOLCS/
Magyar tribal chieftains
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