The greats of our nation - Erem Art Institute He was born as the son of leader Álmos and even during his father's reign his primacy in the office of Gyula was recognized. In 894, he concluded a treaty with Szvatopluk, so the Hungarian and Moravian armies together expelled the Eastern Franks from Pannonia. This is what the legend of the White Horse is about. In 895, at the head of Árpád's armies, he crossed the Vereckei pass into the Great Plain and occupied the Carpathian basin, thus creating the homeland of the Hungarians.