Hungary was founded during the conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 1803.
The Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin , also Hungarian conquest or Hungarian land-taking ( honfoglalás : `` conquest of the homeland '' ) , was a series of historical events ending with the settlement of the Hungarian people in Central Europe at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries . Hungary . Following centuries of successive habitation by Celts , Romans , Slavs , Gepids and Avars , the foundation of Hungary was laid in the late 9th century by the Hungarian grand prince Árpád in the conquest of the Carpathian Basin .