Anthony Endrey (Excerpts) Under these circumstances, the first and foremost task for the Magyars was to achieve complete national unity. Realizing this, the leaders of the seven Hungarian tribes came together to elect a supreme ruler with full authority over all the people. The Hungarians elected Álmos, the “gyula”, who traced his descent from Atilla, king of the Huns, and, as the early Hungarian chronicles of the Christian
