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Hungarians, also known as Magyars (/ ˈ m æ ɡ j ɑː r z / MAG-yarz; [26] Hungarian: magyarok [ˈmɒɟɒrok]), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) and historical Hungarian lands (i.e. belonging to the former Kingdom of Hungary) who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language.
t. e. Hungarian prehistory ( Hungarian: magyar őstörténet) spans the period of history of the Hungarian people, or Magyars, which started with the separation of the Hungarian language from other Finno-Ugric or Ugric languages around 800 BC, and ended with the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin around 895 AD.
Magyar tribes. The appearance of Hungarian tribe names in settlement names. It suggests where arriving Hungarians lived amongst other peoples and helped in reconstructing where arriving tribes settled. The Magyar or Hungarian tribes ( / ˈmæɡjɑːr / MAG-yar, Hungarian: magyar törzsek) or Hungarian clans were the fundamental political units ...
Hungary in its modern (post-1946) borders roughly corresponds to the Great Hungarian Plain (the Pannonian Basin) in Central Europe.. During the Iron Age, it was located at the crossroads between the cultural spheres of Scythian tribes (such as Agathyrsi, Cimmerians), the Celtic tribes (such as the Scordisci, Boii and Veneti), Dalmatian tribes (such as the Dalmatae, Histri and Liburni) and the ...
In the front is Árpád, considered the founder of the Hungarian nation. Behind him are the chieftains Előd, Ond, Kond, Tas, Huba, and Töhötöm (Tétény). Little survives in the historical record about these individuals and both their costumes and their horses are considered to be more fanciful than historically accurate.
Magyarization (UK: / ˌ m æ dʒ ər aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən / US: / ˌ m ɑː dʒ ər ɪ-/, also Hungarianization; Hungarian: magyarosítás), after "Magyar"—the Hungarian autonym—was an assimilation or acculturation process by which non-Hungarian nationals living in the Kingdom of Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, adopted the Hungarian national identity and language in the ...
Scholarly theories about the origin of the Székelys (a subgroup of the Hungarian people) can be divided into four main groups.Medieval chronicles unanimously stated that the Székelys were descended from the Huns and settled in the Carpathian Basin centuries before the Hungarians (or Magyars) conquered the territory in the late 9th century.
Name of Hungary. "Iuhra", "the place of origin of Hungarians " ( inde ungaroru origo) on Sigismund von Herberstein 's map of AD 1549 of Moscovia, located east of the Ob River. Hungary, the name in English for the European country, is an exonym derived from the Medieval Latin Hungaria. The Latin name itself derives from the ethnonyms (H)ungarī ...