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Szekely (Hungarian: Székely) are the indigenous community of Székelyföld (Sekelistan), a region located in eastern Transylvania/Erdel in present-day Romania; its inhabitants have been known as Szekely since the earliest times. The Szekely formed a privileged group within the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, constituting a light cavalry class that, during peacetime, ensured internal security and, during wartime, undertook the roles of vanguard, reconnaissance, and border defense. These military funct

Pecheneg is a Turkic language once spoken by the Pechenegs, one of the Central Asia origin Turkish peoples, but now has no native speakers. Between the 10th and 12th centuries the Pechenegs were influential especially in Central East Europe the Byzantine Empire and Russian territories and used their own language across this vast region. However no direct textual sources of the language have survived to the present day and knowledge of its features is derived solely from linguistic traces and ind