Editing March (territory) (section)

==Hungary==
[[File:Hungary 13th cent.png|thumb|Local autonomies (including [[Kunság|Cumania]], [[Székely Land]] and [[Transylvanian Saxons]]) in the late 13th century]]
In medieval [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]] the system of ''gyepű'' and ''gyepűelve'', effective until the mid-13th century, can be considered as marches even though in its organisation it shows major differences from Western European feudal marches. For one thing, the ''gyepű'' was not controlled by a Marquess.

The ''Gyepű'' was a strip of land that was specially fortified or made impassable, while ''gyepűelve'' was the mostly uninhabited or sparsely inhabited land beyond it. The ''gyepűelve'' is much more comparable to modern [[buffer zone]]s than traditional European marches.

Portions of the ''gyepű'' were usually guarded by tribes who had joined the Hungarian nation and were granted special rights for their services at the borders, such as the [[Székelys]], [[Pechenegs]] and [[Cumans]]. A ban on settlement north of [[Niš]] by the [[Byzantine Empire]] in the twelfth century helped to establish uninhabited marchland between the empire's territory and Hungary.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephenson |first1=Paul |title=Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204 |date=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=0-521-77017-3 |page=124}}</ref>

The Hungarian ''gyepű'' originates from the [[Turkish language|Turkish]] ''yapi'' meaning ''[[palisade]]''.  During the 17th and 18th centuries these borderlands were called Markland in the area of Transylvania that bordered with the Kingdom of Hungary and was controlled by a Count or Countess.<ref>Carleton, D., & Phillipps, T. (1841). Sir Dudley Carleton's State Letters, during his Embassy at the Hague, AD 1627. first edited by [[Thomas Phillipps]]. Typis Medio-Montanis, impressit C. Gilmour.</ref>