10 Facts About Hungarian people

Hungarian people refer to themselves by the demonym "Magyar" rather than "Hungarian".

Hungarian is classified as an Ugric language, and Hungarians are commonly considered an Ugric people that originated from the Ural Mountains, Western Siberia or the Middle Volga region.

The consensus among linguists is that the Hungarian people language is a member of the Uralic family and that it diverged from its Ugric relatives in the first half of the 1st millennium BC, in western Siberia, east of the southern Urals, and arrived into Central Europe by the historical Magyar or Hungarian people "conquerors".

The Szekely Hungarian people's origin, and in particular the time of their settlement in Transylvania, is a matter of historical controversy.

Hungarian people expansion was checked at the Battle of Lechfeld in 955, ending their raids against Western Europe, but raids on the Balkan Peninsula continued until 970.

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Hungarian people adds that Hungarians, outside of Alfold, region where they were seminomadic during this time, were not able to become colonizers, and that for this reason the regions of Transylvania, Upper Hungary and Croatia were integrated in the Hungarian Kingdom in a later stage, after the year 1000, after the sedentarization, Christianization and partial feudalization of the Hungarians.

The Hungarian people population reached its maximum in 1980, then began to decline.

Some neighboring countries with sizable Hungarian people minorities expressed concerns over the legislation.

However, Neparaczki argues, based on archeogenetic results, that the Conqueror Hungarians were mostly a mixture of Hunnic, Slavic, and Germanic tribes having comparable proportion of European and Asian origin and this composite people evolved in the steppes of Eastern Europe between 400 and 1000 AD.

Hungarian people diaspora is a term that encompasses the total ethnic Hungarian people population located outside of current-day Hungary.