11 Facts About Hungarians

Hungarians can be divided into several subgroups according to local linguistic and cultural characteristics; subgroups with distinct identities include the Szekelys, the Csangos, the Paloc, and the Matyo.

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.

Meanwhile, the descendants of those Hungarians who stayed in Bashkiria remained there as late as 1241.

The Hungarians faced their first attack by the Pechenegs around 854.

The new neighbours of the Hungarians were the Varangians and the eastern Slavs From 862 onwards, the Hungarians along with their allies, the Kabars, started a series of looting raids from the Etelkoz into the Carpathian Basin, mostly against the Eastern Frankish Empire and Great Moravia, but against the Balaton principality and Bulgaria.

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In 907, the Hungarians destroyed a Bavarian army in the Battle of Pressburg and laid the territories of present-day Germany, France, and Italy open to Hungarian raids, which were fast and devastating.

The Hungarians defeated the Imperial Army of Louis the Child, son of Arnulf of Carinthia and last legitimate descendant of the German branch of the house of Charlemagne, near Augsburg in 910.

From 917 to 925, Hungarians raided through Basle, Alsace, Burgundy, Saxony, and Provence.

The decline of the Hungarians was due to the constant wars, Ottoman raids, famines, and plagues during the 150 years of Ottoman rule.

The homeland of ancient Hungarians is around the Ural Mountains, and the Hungarian affinities with the Karayakupovo culture is widely accepted among researchers.

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.