Apor was a Hungarian tribal chieftain, who, according to the ''

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'', led a campaign against the

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

in 959, where the legend of Botond takes place. He was the ancestor of the ''gens'' Apor. The Apor family of Transylvanian nobility traditionally trace their origins to him. In his work ''Lusus Mundi'', 17th-18th century historian Baron Péter Apor de Altorja claims such descent. Also, acknowledging that no surviving written sources explicitly state so, he proposed that Apor was a legitimate son of Hungary's Grand Prince Árpád.

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