[4] There is also arguments that Kurszán, who appears as an active actor in Western and Byzantine sources, rather held the dignity of gyula, while Álmos then Árpád served as kende, the "sacred king".
Western sources refer to the leader of the Hungarians as "Kusal", and Georgius Monachus Continuatus (the successor to the Chronicle of George the Friend) says that he was "Kusanes", who received Byzantine envoys alongside Árpád.
In earlier times, this person was unanimously identified with the son of Könd, Curzan, mentioned in the Gesta Hungarorum.
[6] In 892/893 together with Arnulf of Carinthia he attacked Great Moravia to secure the eastern borders of the Frankish Empire.
He entered into an alliance with the Byzantine emperor Leo VI after realizing the country's vulnerability from the south.