Ajtony

Ajtony, Ahtum or Achtum is an early-eleventh-century ruler in the territory now known as Banat in present Romania and Serbia.

His primary source is the Long Life of Saint Gerard, a fourteenth-century hagiography.

Ajtony is a powerful ruler who owns many horses, cattle and sheep and is baptized according to the Orthodox rite in Vidin.

He taxes salt that is transferred to King Stephen I of Hungary on the Mureș River.

The king sends Csanád, Ajtony's former commander-in-chief, against him at the head of a large army.

Csanád defeats and kills Ajtony, occupying his realm.

In the territory, at least one county and a Roman Catholic diocese are established.

Historians disagree on the year of Ajtony's defeat; it may have occurred in 1002, 1008 or between 1027 and 1030.

His ethnicity is also a subject of historical debate; he may have been Hungarian, Kabar, Pecheneg or Romanian.

In Romanian historiography Ajtony is viewed as the last member of a Romanian ruling family founded by Glad, lord of Banat around 900 according to the Gesta Hungarorum.

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