HISTORY BEGINS AT SUMER:
HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY HISTORY BEGINS AT SUMER: GENESIS 10, 8-13: Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to show himself a man of might on earth; and he was a mighty hunter before the Lord, as the saying goes, 'Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord'. His kingdom in the beginning consisted of Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar*. From that land he migrated to Asshur and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and Resen, a great city between Nineveh and Calah. [The New English Bible, Cambridge University Press, New York, p. 10] Shinar: the land of Sumer in Mesopotamia [Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary]. MYTHOLOGY - ORIGINS AND EARLY HISTORY The Hungarians, who call themselves Magyar, have an ancient traditional pre-christian account of their origins according to which they were the descendents of Nimrod (also spelled as Nimrud), son of Cush; Nimrod and Eneth had two sons, Magor and Hunor; Magor was the ancestor of the Magyars, and Hunor ...