The ''Annales Posonienses'' or Annals of Pressburg ( hu, Pozsonyi Évkönyv) are the only extant early medieval

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written in the

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. However, they are rather a collection of notes which, as the historian Carlile Aylmer Macartney emphasizes, "hardly" deserves "the name of annals". The annals contain short records of events occurring between 997 and 1203. They are named after Pressburg (now

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) where the '' Pray Codex''the manuscript preserving its textwas held at St. Martin's Cathedral until 1813 by the

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* * Hungarian chronicles Medieval Latin histories {{Hungary-hist-stub