Jasz people
The Jasz or Jassi or Jazyges are a iranischsprachige ethnic group which migrated in the 13th century in what is now Hungary. Their language is a dialect of the Ossetian language.
Settlement area
The Jasz live in the region Jászság, the northwestern part of the Jász -Nagykun -Szolnok. Their cultural and political center is the city Jászberény.
History
The Hungarian King Béla IV promoted in the 13th century, the settlements of immigrant Jasz and Cumans in the sparsely populated lowlands east of Buda, in order to protect the city after the Mongol invasion better against Mongol attacks can. About 100 years later, the Jasz even received a limited self-government. In return, they had to ask the king armed forces. During the Turkish wars (1526-1541, the Battle of Mohács and the first Turkish siege of Vienna) and the subsequent Turkish occupation of southern Hungary, a large part of the Jazyges was expelled or voluntarily left the house and yard. Some descendants later returned, but had to buy back their land, since the Hungarian crown had this sold recently to the Teutonic Order.
1876, the special rights of the Jazyges were abolished, with the aim to merge all non-Slavic and non-Roman minorities with the Hungarian " country people" or to " Magyarize " because the Hungarians gradually within their kingdom against a Slavic majority and the growing Pan-Slavism in the minority had fallen. At this time, the Jazyges had already been mixed with the remains of also recorded in the Middle Ages Pechenegs.
Today in Hungary remember places like Jászberény ( capital of 1,100 km ² county Jazygien to 1876 ), Jászladány, Jászapáti, Jászárokszállás, Jászdózsa, Jászágó, Jászjákóhalma, Jászfelsőszentgyörgy, Jászalsószentgyörgy, Jászfényszaru and Jászkisér to the Jazyges. It is still and nursed back to the jazygische culture, are regularly held cultural festivals such as the annual World Meeting of Jazyges.
The name of the Yotvingians (Polish: Jaćwingowie ) might at the Jazyges (Polish: Jazygowie ) go back.
The only literary record of jassischen language was found in the 1950s in the Hungarian National Széchenyi Library. The language was reconstructed with the help of the Ossetian analogy.