The Pechenegos were a Turkish town preceding the steppes of Central Asia.In the 9th century they occupied a territory that bordered on the west with the Slavs and in the south and southwest with the hunters and the Magyars.
The pressure of the Goths forced them to cross the Don pushing the Magyars, who invaded the Slavic territories.The Pechenegos lived between the Rhine and the Danube protected by Byzantium, who used them against the Magyars, Bulgarians, Russians and Hunters.
The Magyars, or Hungarians were established since the end of the ninth century in the Middle Danube , territory that received the name of Hungary from them.They continued making incursions towards the west for two generations and in their corridors, after devastating Saxony they reached the Campania, Apulia, Thuringia, Lorraine, Borgona, Aquitaine and Provence , and even Septimania and Cataluna (924).
In their wake they destroyed the Christian temples and decimated the population.Their expeditions of looting in Germania lasted until their defeat, in 955 , by Oton I. They ceased to be a danger to the West when their boss Varik (985) converted to Christianity.
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