The term Eastern Hungarians ( hu, Keleti magyarok; or "Eastern Magyars") is used in scholarship to refer to peoples related to the Proto-Hungarians, that is, theoretically parts of the ancient community that remained in the vicinity of the
Ural Mountains
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(at the
European
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In general
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–
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border) during the
Migration Period and as such did not participate in the
Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin.
The possible locations of the remnants of Hungarians
Yugra
Yugra
Yugra or Iuhra ( Old Russian Югра ''Jugra''; Byzantine Greek Οὔγγροι ''Oὔggroi''; la, OngariaeUrheimat
In historical linguistics, the homeland or ''Urheimat'' (, from German '' ur-'' "original" and ''Heimat'', home) of a proto-language is the region in which it was spoken before splitting into different daughter languages. A proto-language is the r ...
'' (homeland), which is today inhabited by the
Mansi
Mansi may refer to:
People
* Mansi people, an indigenous people living in Tyumen Oblast, Russia
** Mansi language
* Giovanni Domenico Mansi
Gian (Giovanni) Domenico Mansi (16 February 1692 – 27 September 1769) was an Italian prelate, theolog ...
and
Khanty
The Khanty ( Khanty: ханти, ''hanti''), also known in older literature as Ostyaks (russian: остяки) are a Ugric indigenous people, living in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, a region historically known as "Yugra" in Russia, togethe ...
, two related ethnic groups.
Magna Hungaria
The term "Eastern Hungarians" is also used in relation to the ''Magna Hungaria'' of
Friar Julian
Friar Julian ( hu, Julianus barát) was one of a group of Hungarian Dominican friars who, in 1235, left Hungary in order to find those Magyars who — according to the chronicles — remained in the eastern homeland. After travelling a gr ...
( 1235), located at
Bashkortostan
The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик ...
(the land of the
Bashkirs
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), where Julian was able to communicate with the locals in his Hungarian language.
Savard Hungarians
According to Hungarian scholarship, there was a group of "Savard Hungarians" that broke off and moved across the Caucasus into Persian territory in the 8th century.
[Lajos Gubcsi]
Hungary in the Carpathian Basin
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Theory of Kummagyaria
There is also the theory of "Kummagyaria" ( la, Cummageria),
in which a group that stayed behind possessed a country north of Caucasus. According to László Bendefy, the approximate location of Kummagyaria is the riparian area of the
Kuma River,
Southern Russia
Southern Russia or the South of Russia (russian: Юг России, ''Yug Rossii'') is a colloquial term for the southernmost geographic portion of European Russia generally covering the Southern Federal District and the North Caucasian Feder ...
.
Odorico Raynaldi
Odorico Raynaldi or Rinaldi (1595 – 22 January 1671) was an Italian historian and Oratorian. He is also known as Odericus Raynaldus, or just Raynald.
Biography
Raynaldi was born at Treviso of a patrician family. He studied at Parma and Pa ...
(1595–1671) mentioned Papal relations with Jeretany ( hu, Gyeretyán), called the ruler of Hungarians, Malkaites and Alans, in the 1320s. Earlier, Polish diplomat
Andrzej Taranowski
Andrzej is the Polish form of the given name Andrew.
Notable individuals with the given name Andrzej
* Andrzej Bartkowiak (born 1950), Polish film director and cinematographer
* Andrzej Bobola, S.J. (1591–1657), Polish saint, missionary and m ...
(1569) had mentioned the latter information. In 1712, the French traveller
Aubrey de la Motraye
Aubrey is traditionally a male English given name. The name is from the French derivation Aubry of the Germanic given name Alberic / Old High German given name Alberich, which consists of the elements ALF "elf" and RIK "king", from Proto-German ...
passed through the area. His notes state that from what he heard from the local
Tatar
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different population, he maintained that the city of Mazsar was formerly inhabited by Magyars.
[Tardy, Lajos. ’’Régi hírünk a világban’’, Gondolat, Budapest, 1979]
See also
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Hungarian prehistory
Hungarian prehistory ( hu, 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 , and ended with the ...
*
Hungarian people
Hungarians, also known as Magyars ( ; hu, magyarok ), are a nation and ethnic group native to Hungary () and historical Hungarian lands who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Ural ...
References
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History of the Hungarians
Hungarian prehistory
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