Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Ajtony or Ahtum, also Achtum (Bulgarian: Охтум, Hungarian: Ajtony, Romanian: Ahtum, Serbian: Ахтум / Ahtum), was a Hungarian tribal leader (voivode, ‘king’, or ‘prince’), in the region of Banat in the first decades of the 11th century.Ajtony’s ethnicity is a controversial issue. Some scholars (e.g., A. Madgearu, I. A. Pop) see Ahtum as the last member of a native dynasty established in the early 10th century by Glad, who is mentioned exclusively in the 13th century Gesta Hungarorum as opposing the invading Hungarians. On the other hand, according to the De Administrando Imperio by Constantine VII, the region northward from the river Danube around 950 AD where Ajtony's domains were situated was clearly under the control of the Hungarian tribes.King Saint Stephen I of Hungary (1000/1001-1038) sent Csanád - one of Ahtum’s former retainers - to fight against him. Csanád defeated and killed Ajtony in the king’s name, thus incorporating the territory into the Kingdom of Hungary.He was the first known ancestor of the Ajtony kindred.. }
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- Ajtony abstract "Ajtony or Ahtum, also Achtum (Bulgarian: Охтум, Hungarian: Ajtony, Romanian: Ahtum, Serbian: Ахтум / Ahtum), was a Hungarian tribal leader (voivode, ‘king’, or ‘prince’), in the region of Banat in the first decades of the 11th century.Ajtony’s ethnicity is a controversial issue. Some scholars (e.g., A. Madgearu, I. A. Pop) see Ahtum as the last member of a native dynasty established in the early 10th century by Glad, who is mentioned exclusively in the 13th century Gesta Hungarorum as opposing the invading Hungarians. On the other hand, according to the De Administrando Imperio by Constantine VII, the region northward from the river Danube around 950 AD where Ajtony's domains were situated was clearly under the control of the Hungarian tribes.King Saint Stephen I of Hungary (1000/1001-1038) sent Csanád - one of Ahtum’s former retainers - to fight against him. Csanád defeated and killed Ajtony in the king’s name, thus incorporating the territory into the Kingdom of Hungary.He was the first known ancestor of the Ajtony kindred.".