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Early Middle Ages and Crusades

The bands of Volkmar and Gottschalk attack the Jews of Nitra and Merseburg before being destroyed by King Coloman

1096·Hongrie

Toll
inconnu

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Two of the popular armies that set out before the princes crossed through Hungary: that of Volkmar and that of Gottschalk. They attacked in passing the Jews of Nitra and those of Mersebourg, following the pattern of what other bands were doing in the Rhineland.

King Coloman was not inclined to allow an armed force to plunder his kingdom. He had first one and then the other destroyed, and the survivors were dispersed. Hungary, which had been home to Jewish communities since the founding of the kingdom, thus became one of the rare territories where the popular crusade was halted by the ruling power.

Coloman subsequently legislated for the Jews of his kingdom, regulating loans and transactions between communities — a sign that he regarded them as an ordinary component of his state and not as a population to be subdued.

Period :
Early Middle Ages and Crusades
Type :
Massacre
Region :
Central and Eastern Europe
Country :
Hongrie
Sources

Albert d'Aix, Histoire de Jérusalem ; chroniques hongroises médiévales.

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  2. 1919-1921White Terror~3 000 morts, dont environ la moitié de Juifs
  3. 22 sept. 1920Legal persecutiontoll not established
  4. 29 mai 1938Legal persecutiontoll not established
  5. 5 mai 1939Legal persecutiontoll not established
  6. 15 mai – 9 juill. 1944Deportation of Hungarian Jews~437 000 déportés

In the same country37

  1. 1526Expulsion of the Jews of Ödenburg after Mohácstoute la communauté
  2. 1526The Jews of Buda taken by the Ottomans toward the Empire after the taking of the citytoute la communauté
  3. 1686Habsburg siege, massacre of the community~la moitié de la communauté
  4. 1882Accusation of ritual murder following the disappearance of Eszter Solymositoll not established
  5. 1919-1920Hungarian White Terrordizaines
  6. 1919-1920Hungarian White Terrordizaines
  7. 1919Hungarian White Terrordizaines
  8. 1919-1920Hungarian White Terrordizaines

And 29 more in the catalogue.

Event 116 of 2483, in chronological order · Early Middle Ages and Crusades: 89 events in the catalogue

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