Kond (chieftain)
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Kond (''Könd, Künd, Kund, Kend, Kende'' or ''Kurszán'') was – according to chronicler
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– one of the
seven chieftains of the Magyars The Seven chieftains of the Magyars (or Hungarians) were the leaders of the seven tribes of the Hungarians at the time of their arrival in the Carpathian Basin in AD 895. Constantine VII, emperor of the Byzantine Empire names the seven tribes i ...
(Hungarians), who
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the Hungarians to the
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in 895. Probably he was the father of
Kurszán Kurszán (died 904), was a kende of the Magyars in the dual leadership with Árpád serving as a gyula - according to a mainstream theory. While ''kende'' probably corresponded roughly to the Khazar title ''khagan'', Kurszán's role equated to the ...
. His second son, Kaplon was the founder of the kindred of Kaplon.


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Magyar tribal chieftains 9th-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-bio-stub