Tonuzoba or Tonuzaba was a

Pecheneg The Pechenegs () or Patzinaks tr, Peçenek(ler), Middle Turkic: , ro, Pecenegi, russian: Печенег(и), uk, Печеніг(и), hu, Besenyő(k), gr, Πατζινάκοι, Πετσενέγοι, Πατζινακίται, ka, პაჭ ...

tribal chieftain who settled with his people in Hungary about 950 AD. He is the first known ancestor of the Tomaj, Pál Engel, Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, I.B.Tauris,, 2005, p. 85 Szalók, Bő and Örkény kindreds. He was given lands from Taksony in the county of

Heves Heves is a small town in eastern Hungary. About 100 km east of Budapest, Heves lies at the northern extreme of the Great Hungarian Plain, just south of the Mátra and Bükk hills and west of the Tisza River. Heves gave its name to the Heves ...

. Györffy argues that he was related to the grand prince, because Taksony's wife was of Pecheneg descent. Györffy György, A magyarság keleti elemei, Gondolat Kiadó, 1990, p. 306 According to the legend Tonuzoba was buried alive at

Abádszalók Abádszalók () is a town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary. The town was established in 1895 by the union of the villages of Tiszabad and Tiszalok. Geography It covers an area of and has a ...

because he refused to convert to Christianity.

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{{Hungary-bio-stub Tomaj (genus) 10th-century Hungarian people Pechenegs