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{{Short description|Ethnic group native to Central Europe}}
] and assistants' vast (over 8000 m<sup>2</sup>) canvas, painted to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Magyar conquest of Hungary, now displayed at Ópusztaszer National Memorial Site in Hungary]]
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'''Magyars''' are an ] primarily associated with ]. In English they are sometimes called '''Hungarians'''.
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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Hungarians
| native_name = Magyarok
| native_name_lang = hun
| image =
| caption =
| population = {{circa}} 14.5 million
| popplace = {{flagicon|Hungary}} ] 9,632,744<ref name="KSH">{{cite book |last=Vukovich |first=Gabriella |year=2018 |title=Mikrocenzus 2016 – 12. Nemzetiségi adatok|trans-title=2016 microcensus – 12. Ethnic data |language=hu |publisher=Hungarian Central Statistical Office |location=Budapest |access-date=9 January 2019 |isbn=978-963-235-542-9 |url=http://www.ksh.hu/docs/hun/xftp/idoszaki/mikrocenzus2016/mikrocenzus_2016_12.pdf}}</ref>
] 11,425,000 (2022)
| region1 = {{ROU}}
| tablehdr = Other countries
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| pop1 = 1,002,151
| ref1 = <ref name="Székelyhon">{{cite web |title=Mintha városok ürültek volna ki |trans-title=As if cities had been emptied |url=https://szekelyhon.ro/aktualis/csikszek/szekelyfoldon-is-fogy-a-nepesseg |last=Széchely |first=István |website=Székelyhon |language=hu |date=3 January 2023 |access-date=24 January 2023}}</ref>
| region2 = {{SVK}}
| pop2 = 456,154
| ref2 = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://mensinovapolitika.eu/en/data-from-census-have-confirmed-that-an-exclusive-national-identity-is-a-myth-this-should-also-translate-into-the-laws-concerning-national-minorities/ |title=Data from census have confirmed that an exclusive national identity is a myth. This should also translate into the laws concerning national minorities |last=Holka Chudzikova |first=Alena |website=Minority policy in Slovakia |date=29 March 2022 |issn=2729-8663 |access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref>
| region3 = {{GER}}
| pop3 = 296,000
| ref3 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Migration-Integration/Tabellen/migrationshintergrund-staatsangehoerigkeit-staaten.html|title=Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn nach ausgewählten Geburtsstaaten|website=Statistisches Bundesamt}}</ref>
| region4 = {{SRB}}
| pop4 = 184.442
| ref4 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.euronews.rs/srbija/drustvo/85839/konacni-rezultati-popisa-prema-nacionalnoj-pripadnosti-madari-najbrojnija-manjina-jugoslovena-vise-od-27000/vest|title=Konačni rezultati popisa prema nacionalnoj pripadnosti: Mađari najbrojnija manjina, Jugoslovena više od 27.000|last=Srbija|first=Euronews|date=2023-04-28 |publisher=Euronews.rs |language=sr|access-date=2023-06-23}}</ref>
| region5 = {{FR}}
| pop5 = 200,000–250,000
| ref5 = <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.buod.de/D/kere-d.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204001010/http://www.buod.de/D/kere-d.htm|url-status=dead |title=Hungarians in France|archive-date=4 February 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://peoplegroups.org/explore/PeopleGroupDetails.aspx?peid=42481#topmenu |title=Hungarians of France |website=PeopleGroups.org}}{{Dead link |date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>
| region6 = {{no wrap|{{GBR}}}}
| pop6 = 200,000–220,000
| ref6 = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.portfolio.hu/gazdasag/20200216/hivatalosan-is-elismertek-sokkal-tobb-magyar-el-az-egyesult-kiralysagban-mint-eddig-hittuk-415911 |title=It has been officially recognized: far more Hungarians live in the United Kingdom than previously thought| publisher=portfolio.hu |date=16 February 2020 |access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref>
| region7 = {{UKR}}
| pop7 = 156,566
| ref7 = <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/|title=About number and composition population of UKRAINE by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001 |work=State Statistics Committee of Ukraine |date=2003|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041031064500/http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality |archive-date=31 October 2004}}</ref>
| region8 = {{AUT}}
| pop8 = 73,411
| ref8 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region9 = {{RUS}}
| pop9 = 55,500
| ref9 = <ref>Befolkning efter födelseland och ursprungsland 31 December 2018</ref>
| region10 = {{flagcountry|Switzerland}}
| pop10 = 27,000
| ref10 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014">{{Cite web|url=https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/immigrant-and-emigrant-populations-country-origin-and-destination|title=Immigrant and Emigrant Populations by Country of Origin and Destination|date=10 February 2014|website=migrationpolicy.org}}</ref>
| region11 = {{flagcountry|Netherlands}}
| pop11 = 26,172
| ref11 = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/dataset/37325/table?ts=1597160967965|title=Bevolking; geslacht, leeftijd, generatie en migratieachtergrond, 1 januari|publisher=CBS StatLine|access-date=14 March 2021}}</ref>
| region12 = {{flagcountry|Czech Republic}}
| pop12 = 20,000
| ref12 = <ref name="KCS-2015">{{Cite web|url=https://www.korosiprogram.hu/diaszpora|title=A diaszpóra tudományos megközelítése|date=3 July 2015|website=Kőrösi Csoma Sándor program}}</ref>
| region13 = {{flagcountry|Belgium}}
| pop13 = 15,000
| ref13 = <ref name="KCS-2015"/>
| region14 = {{flagcountry|Croatia}}
| pop14 = 14,048
| ref14 = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/type,COUNTRYPROF,,,4954ce1ec,0.html|title=World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples – Croatia : Overview (2001 census data)|date=July 2008|publisher=]|access-date=16 March 2009}}</ref>
| region15 = {{SWE}}
| pop15 = 13,000
| ref15 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region16 = {{flagcountry|Slovenia}}
| pop16 = 10,500
| ref16 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://peoplegroups.org/explore/PeopleGroupDetails.aspx?peid=980#topmenu|title=PeopleGroups.org – Hungarians of Slovenia|website=peoplegroups.org}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| region17 = {{flagcountry|Spain}}
| pop17 = 10,000
| ref17 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region18 = {{flagcountry|Ireland}}
| pop18 = 9,000
| ref18 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region19 = {{flagcountry|Norway}}
| pop19 = 8,316
| ref19 = <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kulhonimagyarok.hu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/magyar-diaszporapolitika-strategiai-iranyok-dokumentum.pdf |title=Magyar diaszpórapolitikastratégiai irányok |website=kulhonimagyarok.hu |language=hu |page=29 |date=22 November 2016 }}</ref>
| region20 = {{flagcountry|Denmark}}
| pop20 = 6,000
| ref20 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region21 = {{flagcountry|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}
| pop21 = 4,000
| ref21 = {{cn|date=November 2024}}
| region22 = {{flagcountry|Finland}}
| pop22 = 3,000
| ref22 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region23 = {{flagcountry|Greece}}
| pop23 = 2,000
| ref23 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region24 = {{flagcountry|Luxembourg}}
| pop24 = 2,000
| ref24 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region25 = {{flagcountry|Poland}}
| pop25 = 1,728
| ref25 = <ref>. Narodowy Spis Ludności i Mieszkań 2011 (National Census of Population and Housing 2011). ]. 2013. p. 264.</ref>
| region26 = {{flagcountry|Portugal}}
| pop26 = 1,230
| ref26 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sef.pt/pt/Documents/RIFA2022%20vF2a.pdf|title=Sefstat2022}}</ref>
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{{collapsed infobox section begin|North America}}
| region27 = {{flagcountry|USA}}
| pop27 = 1,437,694
| ref27 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region28 = {{flagcountry|Canada}}
| pop28 = 348,085
| ref28 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=2&Lang=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=1341679&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=110528&PRID=10&PTYPE=109445&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2017&THEME=120&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0|title=Ethnic Origin (279), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3), Generation Status (4), Age (12) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2016 Census – 25% Sample Data|first=Statistics Canada|last=Government of Canada|date=25 October 2017 |publisher=www12.statcan.gc.ca}}</ref>
| region29 = {{flagcountry|Mexico}}
| pop29 = 3,500
| ref29 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
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{{collapsed infobox section begin|South America}}
| region30 = {{flagcountry|Brazil}}
| pop30 = 80,000
| ref30 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://epoca.globo.com/edic/214/soci1a.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070922025459/http://epoca.globo.com/edic/214/soci1a.htm|url-status=dead|title=Hungarians in Brazil|archivedate=22 September 2007}}</ref>
| region31 = {{flagcountry|Chile}}
| pop31 = 50,000
| ref31 = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ikl.org.pl/Estudios/EL7/EL7_4.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203092216/http://www.ikl.org.pl/Estudios/EL7/EL7_4.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 February 2016|title=Los obreros húngaros emigrados en América Latina entre las dos guerras mundiales. Ilona Varga|website=www.ikl.org.pl}}</ref>
| region32 = {{flagcountry|Argentina}}
| pop32 = 40,000–50,000
| ref32 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hungarytoday.hu/thursday-top-ten-top-ten-countries-largest-hungarian-diasopra-world-99916/|title=Thursday Top Ten: Top Ten Countries With The Largest Hungarian Diaspora In The World|date=1 December 2016|access-date=2 July 2021|archive-date=5 December 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205020358/https://hungarytoday.hu/thursday-top-ten-top-ten-countries-largest-hungarian-diasopra-world-99916/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| region33 = {{flagcountry|Venezuela}}
| pop33 = 4,000
| ref33 = <ref name="KCS-2015"/>
| languages = ]
| religions = Majority: ] (mostly ]),<ref name=EUROBAROMETER>{{cite report|url=http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_393_en.pdf|title=Discrimination in the EU in 2012|work=]|publisher=]|series=383|page=233|access-date=14 August 2013|date=November 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202023700/http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_393_en.pdf|archive-date=2 December 2012}} The question asked was "Do you consider yourself to be...?" With a card showing: Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Other Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Atheist, and Non-believer/Agnostic. Space was given for Other (SPONTANEOUS) and DK. Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu did not reach the 1% threshold.</ref> also ] (])<br>Minority: ] (] and ]), ], ], ], ]
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| region34 = {{flagcountry|Uruguay}}
| pop34 = 3,000
| ref34 = <ref name="KCS-2015"/>
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{{collapsed infobox section begin|Rest of the world}}
| region35 = {{flagcountry|Israel}}
| pop35 = 200,000
| ref35 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region36 = {{flagcountry|Australia}}
| pop36 = 69,167
| ref36 = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abouthungary.hu//speeches-and-remarks/prime-minister-viktor-orbans-address-at-the-9th-meeting-of-the-hungarian-diaspora-council|title=Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's address at the 9th meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council|first=About|last=Hungary|date=19 November 2019|website=Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's address at the 9th meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council}}</ref>
| region37 = {{flagcountry|New Zealand}}
| pop37 = 7,000
| ref37 = <ref name="KCS-2015"/>
| region38 = {{flagcountry|Turkey}}
| pop38 = 6,800
| ref38 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
| region39 = {{flagcountry|South Africa}}
| pop39 = 4,000
| ref39 = <ref name="KCS-2015"/>
| region40 = {{flagcountry|Jordan}}
| pop40 = 1,000
| ref40 = <ref name="migrationpolicy-2014"/>
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{{Infobox ethnonym|person= Magyar |people= Magyarok |language=],<br />]|country= ]}}
'''Hungarians''', also known as '''Magyars''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|æ|ɡ|j|ɑː|r|z}} {{respell|MAG|yarz}};<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/magyar |title=Magyar |website=Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online |access-date=5 October 2022}}</ref> {{langx|hu|magyarok}} {{IPA-hu|ˈmɒɟɒrok|}}), are a ]an ] and an ] native to ] ({{Langx|hu|Magyarország|links=no}}) and other lands once belonging to the ] who share a common ], ], ], and ]. The Hungarian language belongs to the ], alongside, most notably, ] and ].


There are an estimated 14.5 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary.<ref name="KSH" /> About 2 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the ] in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. In addition, significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world, most of them in the ], ], ], ], the ], ], ], ], and ], and therefore constitute the ] ({{langx|hu|magyar diaszpóra}}).
The word ''Hungarian'' has also a wider meaning, because &ndash; especially in the past &ndash; it referred to all inhabitants of the ] irrespective of their ethnicity (i.e. not only to the Magyars). Specifically, the ] term ''natio hungarica'' referred to all nobles of the Kingdom of Hungary irrespective of their ethnicity.


Furthermore, Hungarians can be divided into several subgroups according to local linguistic and cultural characteristics; subgroups with distinct identities include the ] (in eastern ] as well as ] in ], ]), the ] (in ]), the ], and the ].
There are around 10 million Magyars in ] (2001). Magyars have been the main inhabitants of the ] that existed through most of the second millennium. Following its disappearance with the ], Magyars have become minority inhabitants of ] (official: 1,440,000; see: ]), ] (official: 520,500, estd: 580,000), ] (293,000; largely in ]), ] and ] (170,000), ] (70,000), ] (16,500), the ] (14,600) and ] (10,000). Significant groups of people with Magyar ancestry live in various other parts of the world (e.g. 1,400,000 in the ]), but unlike the Magyars living within the former Kingdom of Hungary, only a minority of these preserves the Hungarian language and tradition.


==Name==
There was a referendum in Hungary in December 2004 on whether to grant Hungarian ] to Magyars living outside Hungary's borders (i.e., without requiring a permanent residence in Hungary). The referendum failed due to insufficient participation on the part of the population.
{{Further|Name of Hungary}}


The Hungarians' own ethnonym to denote themselves in the Early Middle Ages is uncertain. The ] "Hungarian" is thought to be derived from Oghur-Turkic '']'' (literally "Ten Arrows" or "Ten Tribes"). Another possible explanation comes from the Russian word "]" (Югра). It may refer to the Hungarians during a time when they dwelt east of the southern ] in ] before their conquest of the Carpathian Basin.<ref>], s. v. "Ugrian": "''Ugri'', the name given by early Russian writers to a Finno-Ugric people dwelling east of the Ural Mountains".</ref>
== History after 896==


Prior to the ] when the Hungarian conquerors lived on the ] east of the ], written sources called the Hungarians: "Ungri" by ] in 837, "Ungri" by '']'' in 862, and "Ungari" by the '']'' in 881. The Magyars/Hungarians probably belonged to the Onogur tribal alliance, and it is possible that they became its ethnic majority.<ref name="A History of Hungary">{{cite book|title=A History of Hungary|editor=Peter F. Sugar|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=22 November 1990|isbn=978-0-253-20867-5|page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKwmGQCT0MAC&q=hungary+onogur+turkish&pg=PA9|access-date=6 July 2011}}</ref> In the ], the Hungarians had many names, including "Węgrzy" (Polish), "Ungherese" (Italian), "Ungar" (German), and "Hungarus".<ref>Edward Luttwak, , Harvard University Press, 2009, p. 156</ref>
The Magyar leader ] is believed to have led the Hungarians into the ] in ]. Magyar expansion was checked at the ] in ]. Hungarian settlement in the area became approved by the ] by the crowning of ] (''Szent István'') in ] when the leaders accepted ]. The century between the Magyars' arrival from the eastern European plains and the consolidation of the ] in 1001 were dominated by pillaging campaigns across Europe, from Dania (]) to the ] (]).


In the Hungarian language, the Hungarian people name themselves as "Magyar".<ref name="A History of Hungary"/> "Magyar" possibly derived from the name of the most prominent ], the "Megyer". The tribal name "Megyer" became "Magyar" in reference to the Hungarian people as a whole.<ref>György Balázs, Károly Szelényi, , Corvina, 1989, p. 8</ref><ref>Alan W. Ertl, , Universal-Publishers, 2008, p. 358</ref><ref>Z. J. Kosztolnyik, , Eastern European Monographs, 2002, p. 3</ref>
At the Hungarian conquest, the Hungarian nation numbered between 250,000 and 450,000 people. The Slavic population of the region (and remnants of the Avars in the southwest) was also assimilated by the Magyars, except those living approximately in present-day ] (the ancestors of the ]) and those living in present-day ]. Croatia joined the Kingdom in ].


The Greek ] of "]" ({{langx|el|Τουρκία}}) was used by the scholar and ] ] in his ''{{Lang|la|]}}'' of c. AD 950,<ref>{{Cite book|edition=New, revised|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies|isbn=978-0-88402-021-9|last=Jenkins|first=Romilly James Heald|title=De Administrando Imperio by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus|location=Washington, D.C.|series=Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae|year=1967|page=65|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3al15wpFWiMC|access-date=28 August 2013}} According to Constantine Porphyrogenitus, writing in his '']'' (c. AD 950), "Patzinakia, the ], stretches west as far as the ] (or even the ]), and is four days distant from Tourkia (i.e. Hungary)."</ref><ref name="PrinzingSalamon1999">{{cite book|author1=Günter Prinzing|author2=Maciej Salamon|title=Byzanz und Ostmitteleuropa 950–1453: Beiträge zu einer table-ronde des XIX. International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Copenhagen 1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uZDgivj7_RAC&pg=PA46|access-date=9 February 2013|year=1999|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-04146-1|page=46}}</ref> though in his use, "Turks" always referred to ].<ref name="Howorth2008">{{cite book|author=Henry Hoyle Howorth|title=History of the Mongols from the 9th to the 19th Century: The So-called Tartars of Russia and Central Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hFc4mwsHZ7IC&pg=PA3|access-date=15 June 2013|year=2008|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60520-134-4|page=3}}</ref> This was a misnomer, as while the Magyars do have some Turkic genetic and cultural influence, including their historical social structure being of Turkic origin,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Köpeczi |first1=Béla |last2=Makkai |first2=László |last3=Mócsy |first3=András |last4=Kiralý |first4=Béla K. |last5=Kovrig |first5=Bennett |last6=Szász |first6=Zoltán |last7=Barta |first7=Gábor |title=Transylvania in the medieval Hungarian kingdom (896–1526) |date=2001 |publisher=Social Science Monographs, University of Michigan, Columbia University Press, East European Monographs |location=New York |isbn=0880334797 |pages=415–416 |edition=Volume 1 of History of Transylvania}}</ref> they still are not widely considered as part of the ].<ref>A MAGYAROK TÜRK MEGNEVEZÉSE BÍBORBANSZÜLETETT KONSTANTINOS DE ADMINISTRANDOIMPERIO CÍMÛ MUNKÁJÁBAN – Takács Zoltán Bálint, SAVARIAA VAS MEGYEI MÚZEUMOK ÉRTESÍTÕJE28 SZOMBATHELY, 2004, pp. 317–333 </ref>
The first accurate measurements of the population of the Kingdom of Hungary, including ethnic composition, were carried out in the late ]. There is a debate among Magyar and non-Magyar (especially Slovak and ]) historians about the possible changes in the ethnic structure throughout history.


The obscure name ''kerel'' or ''keral'', found in the 13th-century work '']'', possibly referred to Hungarians and derived from the Hungarian title ''király'' 'king'.<ref>{{Cite book|first=András|last=Róna-Tas|title=Hungarians and Europe in the Early Middle Ages|year=1999|page=273}}</ref>
* Magyar historians support the theory that the Magyars' percentage in the Carpathian Basin was at an almost constant 80% during the Middle Ages, and began to decrease only at the time of the ] conquest, reaching as low as 42% in the end of the 18th century (or 29% according to historians outside Hungary). The decline of the Magyars was due to the constant wars, famines and plagues during the 150 years of Ottoman rule. The main zones of war were the territories inhabited by the Magyars, so the death toll among them was much higher than among other nationalities. In the 18th century their percentage declined further because of the influx of new settlers from ], ], and other countries.


The historical Latin phrase "]" ("Hungarian nation") had a wider and political meaning because it once referred to all nobles of the ], regardless of their ethnicity or mother tongue.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hungarianhistory.com/lib/transy/transy05.htm|title=Transylvania – The Roots of Ethnic Conflict|website=www.hungarianhistory.com}}</ref>
* Non-Magyar historians tend to emphasise the multi-ethnic nature of the Kingdom even in the Middle Ages, and argue that there was not enough reason for such a drastic change in the ethnic structure, thus implying that Magyars accounted for about 30%/40% of the Kingdom's population since its establishment. In particular, there is a fierce debate among Magyar and Romanian historians about the ethnic composition of ] through the times; see ].


==History==
In the ], the percentage of Magyars in the Kingdom of Hungary rose gradually, reaching over 50% by ]. However, it should be noted that the non-Magyar population of the Kingdom was subjected to ] in the period between ] (the ]) and ]. Spontaneous assimilation was important too, especially between the German and Jewish minorities and the citizens of the bigger towns.


=== Origin ===
The years ] - ] were a turning point in the Magyars' history. By the ], the Kingdom was split up, and about one third of the Magyars became minorities. This, as well as the rest of their ] history, including the events of ], and over 40 years of Communist ], all contributed to a general feeling of depression among Magyars (the number of suicides per capita in Hungary is among the highest in the world). Consequently, the number of deaths has been higher than the number of births in Hungary since the ], with the number of children being less than the number of possible parents since as soon as the ]. Their age structure thus deformed, the number of Magyars in Hungary is expected to further decrease to about 6-8 million by ]. Hungarian minorities in the neighbouring countries are decreasing at a quicker pace because of assimilation and emigration to Hungary.


The origin of Hungarians, the place and time of their ], has been a matter of debate. Due to the classification of the Hungarian language in the ], they are commonly considered an ] that originated from the ], ] or the Middle ]. Fóthi et al. 2022 suggests that the Hungarian conquerors originated from three distinct regions on the ]: the ]-], spanning northwestern ] and southern ], the ]-] and the ]-].<ref>{{Cite web |title=(PDF) Genetic analysis of male Hungarian Conquerors: European and Asian paternal lineages of the conquering Hungarian tribes |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338574213_Genetic_analysis_of_male_Hungarian_Conquerors_European_and_Asian_paternal_lineages_of_the_conquering_Hungarian_tribes |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210317023118/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338574213_Genetic_analysis_of_male_Hungarian_Conquerors_European_and_Asian_paternal_lineages_of_the_conquering_Hungarian_tribes |archive-date=2021-03-17 |access-date=2024-12-31 |website=ResearchGate |language=en}}</ref> The relatedness of Hungarians with the Ugric peoples is almost exclusively founded on linguistic data and has been called into question. It is not backed with testimonies in historical sources or the results of natural science research.<ref name="Obrusanszky_87f">{{Cite book |first=Borbála |last=Obrusánszky |chapter=Are the Hungarians Ugric? |editor=Angela Marcantonio |title=The state of the art of Uralic studies: tradition vs innovation |publisher=Sapienza Università Editrice |year=2018 |pages=87–88 |url=http://www.editricesapienza.it/sites/default/files/5714_State_Art_Uralic_Studies_OA_0.pdf}}</ref>
== Origin of the word "Hungarian" ==


"]", i.e. the history of the "ancient Hungarians" before their arrival in the ] at the end of the 9th century, is thus a "tenuous construct", based on linguistics, analogies in folklore, archaeology and subsequent written evidence. In the 21st century, historians have argued that "Hungarians" did not exist as a discrete ethnic group or people for centuries before their settlement in the Carpathian basin. Instead, the formation of the people with its distinct identity was a process. According to this view, Hungarians as a people emerged by the 9th century, subsequently incorporating other, ethnically and linguistically divergent, peoples.<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Nora Berend |authorlink1=Nora Berend |author2=Przemysław Urbańczyk |authorlink2=Przemysław Urbańczyk |author3=Przemysław Wiszewski |title=Central Europe in the High Middle Ages: Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, c.900–c.1300 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2013 |chapter=Hungarian 'pre-history' or 'ethnogenesis'? |page=62}}</ref>
The word derives from the old Slavic word ''og(ъ)r-'' for the proto-Magyars. Through Germanic languages, the word got into other European languages (''(H)ungarus, (H)ungarn, Vengry'' etc.). The Slavic word is thought to be derived from the Bulgaro-Turkic ''Onogur'', possibly because the proto-Magyars were neighbours (or confederates) of the Empire of the ]s in the 6th century, whose leading tribal union was called the "Onogurs" (meaning "ten tribes").


===Pre-4th century AD===
The H- in many languages (''Hungarians, Hongrois, Hungarus'' etc.) is a later addition. It was taken over from the word "]", which was a similar semi-nomadic tribe living some 400 years earlier in present-day Hungary and having a similar way of life (or according to the older theories the people from which the Magyars arose). In ancient times, through the middle ages, and even today, the identification of ''Hungarians'' with the ''Huns'' has often occurred in history and literature, however this identification began to be disputed around the late 19th century, and is still a source of major controversy among scholars who insist that there could be no direct connection between the two.
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{{Main|Hungarian prehistory}}
During the 4th millennium BC, the ]-speaking peoples who were living in the central and southern regions of the ] split up. Some dispersed towards the west and northwest and came into contact with ] and ] who were spreading northwards.<ref>{{Cite book|first=András|last=Róna-Tas|title=Hungarians and Europe in the Early Middle Ages|year=1999|page=96}}</ref> From at least 2000&nbsp;BC onwards, the ]-speakers became distinguished from the rest of the Uralic community, of which the ancestors of the Magyars, being located farther south, were the most numerous. Judging by evidence from burial mounds and settlement sites, they interacted with the ] ] and Baikal-Altai Asian cultures.<ref name=Blench>{{cite book |last=Blench |first=Roger |author2=Matthew Briggs |title=Archaeology and Language |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DWMHhfXxLaIC&q=Hungarian+people+settlements+Andronovo+Culture+&pg=PA209 |access-date=21 May 2008 |year=1999 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-11761-6 |page=210 }}</ref>


===4th century to c. 830===
Hun names like ] and ] are still popular among Hungarians, and forms derived from Latin ''Hungaria'' are used like in the racetrack ] (mostly due to the strong English language pressure in tourism and international matters).


In the 4th and 5th centuries&nbsp;AD, the Hungarians were an "thnically mixed people"<ref name="Black-2003">{{Cite book |last1=Black |first1=Jeremy |title=World History |last2=Brewer |first2=Paul |last3=Shaw |first3=Anthony |last4=Chandler |first4=Malcolm |last5=Cheshire |first5=Gerard |last6=Cranfield |first6=Ingrid |last7=Ralph Lewis |first7=Brenda |last8=Sutherland |first8=Joe |last9=Vint |first9=Robert |publisher=Parragon Books |year=2003 |isbn=0-75258-227-5 |location=] |pages=342 |author-link=Jeremy Black (historian)}}</ref> who moved to the west of the Ural Mountains, to the area between the southern Ural Mountains and the ], known as Bashkiria (]) and ]. In the early 8th century, some of the Hungarians moved to the ], to an area between the Volga, Don and the ] rivers.<ref name="HungaryEarlyHistory"/> Meanwhile, the descendants of those Hungarians who stayed in Bashkiria remained there as late as 1241.
''Magyar'' is today simply the Hungarian word for Hungarian. In English and many other languages, however, Magyar is used instead of Hungarian in certain (mainly historical) contexts, usually to distinguish ethnic Hungarians (i.e. the Magyars) from the other nationalities living in the Hungarian kingdom.


The Hungarians around the Don River were subordinates of the ] ]. Their neighbours were the archaeological ], i.e. ] (Proto-Bulgarians, ]) and the ], from whom they learned gardening, elements of cattle breeding and of agriculture. Tradition holds that the Hungarians were organized in a confederacy of ]: ''Jenő'', ''Kér'', ''Keszi'', ''Kürt-Gyarmat'', ''Megyer'', ''Nyék'', and ''Tarján''.
== Ethnic affiliations and origins of the Hungarian people ==
The origin of the Hungarians (more correctly Magyars) is partly disputed. The most widely accepted Finno-Ugric theory from the late 18th century is based primarily on linguistic and ethnographical arguments, while it is criticised by some as relying too much on linguistics. There are also other theories stating that the Magyars are descendants of ], ], ], ] , and/or ]ians. These are primarily based on medieval legends &ndash; whose authenticity and scientific reliability is strongly questionable &ndash; and non-systematic linguistic similarities. Most scholars therefore dismiss these claims as mere speculation.


===c. 830 to c. 895===
The following section shows the Finno-Ugric theory of the origin of modern Hungarian people. For some other theories see ].
Around 830, a rebellion broke out in the Khazar khaganate. As a result, three ] tribes<ref>Peter F. Sugar, Péter Hanák, ], A History of Hungary, Indiana University Press, 1994 page 11. </ref> of the Khazars joined the Hungarians and moved to what the Hungarians call the ], the territory between the ] and the ]. The Hungarians faced their first attack by the ] around 854.<ref name="HungaryEarlyHistory">{{cite book|chapter-url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+hu0013)|title=A Country Study: Hungary|publisher=Federal Research Division, ]|chapter=Early History|access-date=6 March 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041029114728/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd%2Fcstdy%3A%40field%28DOCID+hu0013%29|archive-date=29 October 2004}}</ref> The new neighbours of the Hungarians were the ] and the eastern ]. From 862 onwards, the Hungarians (already referred to as the ''Ungri'') along with their allies, the Kabars, started a series of looting raids from the Etelköz into the Carpathian Basin, mostly against the ] (Germany) and ], but also against the ] and ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron/EastEurope/Magyars.html |title=Magyars |publisher=Thenagain.info |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref>


===Entering the Carpathian Basin (c. 862–895)===
Finno-Ugric is a group of related languages, which does not mean that the peoples currently speaking those languages are equally related. Same holds true, for example, for Indo-European languages. The Ugric Hungarian language is about as distantly related to ] languages like Finnish and Estonian as, e.g., European German language is related to ] and ].
{{Main|History of Hungary before the Hungarian conquest|Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin}}
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The Hungarians arrived in the ], a geographically unified but politically divided land, after acquiring thorough local knowledge of the area from the 860s onwards.<ref name="Szoke-2014">{{Cite book |last=Szőke |first=Béla Miklós |url=http://real.mtak.hu/20927/1/Szokekotet_angol_u_085622.294918.pdf |title=The Carolingian Age in the Carpathian Basin |publisher=Hungarian National Museum |year=2014 |isbn=978-615-5209-17-8 |location=Budapest}}</ref><ref name="Szabados-2016">{{Cite book |last=Szabados |first=György |title=Népek és kultúrák a Kárpát-medencében |year=2016 |isbn=978-615-5209-56-7 |language=hu |trans-title=Peoples and cultures in the Carpathian Basin |chapter=Vázlat a magyar honfoglalás Kárpát-medencei hátteréről |publisher=Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum |trans-chapter=Outline of the background of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin |chapter-url=http://real.mtak.hu/46728/1/Szabados_2016_Mesterhazy_75_kotet_u.pdf}}</ref><ref name=":1b2">{{Cite book |last=Szabados |first=György |url=https://www.academia.edu/36486693 |title=Folytonosság és/vagy találkozás? "Avar" és "magyar" a 9. századi Kárpát-medencében |year=2018 |language=hu |trans-title=Continuity and/or encounter? "Avar" and "Hungarian" in the 9th century Carpathian Basin}}</ref><ref name="Sudar-2016">{{Cite book |year=2016 |last1=Sudár |first1=Balázs |url=https://arpad.abtk.hu/images/kiadvanyok/4-honfoglalas-es-megtelepedes.pdf |title=Magyar őstörténet 4 – Honfoglalás és megtelepedés |last2=Petek |first2=Zsolt |publisher=Helikon Kiadó, MTA BTK Magyar Őstörténeti Témacsoport (Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Hungarian Prehistory Research Team) |isbn=978-963-227-755-4 |trans-title=Hungarian Prehistory 4 - Conquest and Settlement}}</ref><ref name="Revesz-2014">{{Cite book |last=Révész |first=László |url=https://dtk.tankonyvtar.hu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/7105/08_revesz_laszlo.pdf |title=The Era of the Hungarian Conquest |publisher=Hungarian National Museum |year=2014 |isbn=9786155209185 |location=Budapest}}</ref><ref name="Negyesi-2011">{{Cite book |last1=Négyesi |first1=Lajos |last2=Veszprémy |first2=László |url=https://mek.oszk.hu/09100/09132/09132.pdf |title=1000-1100 years ago…Hungary in the Carpathian Basin |publisher=MoD Zrínyi Média Ltd |year=2011 |isbn=978-963-327-515-3 |editor-last=Gubcsi |editor-first=Lajos |location=Budapest}}</ref>
=== East of the Ural mountains (before the 4th century AD) ===
According to this theory, in the 4th millennium BC, some of the earliest settlements of the ]-speaking peoples were situated east of the ], where they ] and ]. From there, the Ugrians, i.e., the ancestors of the Magyars, were settled in the ] parts of western ] (i.e. to the east of the Urals) &ndash; from c. 2000 BC. onwards at least. Their settlements were identical with the north-western part of the ]. Some more advanced tribes coming from the southern steppes taught them how to do agriculture, breed cattle and produce ] objects. Around 1500, they started to breed ]s and horse riding became one of their typical activities.


After the end of the ] (c. 822), the ] asserted their influence in ], the ] to a small extent in the Southern ] and the interior regions housed the surviving Avar population in their stateless state.<ref name="Szabados-2016"/><ref name="Szabados-2022">{{Cite journal |last=Szabados |first=György |date=May 2022 |title=Álmostól Szent Istvánig |trans-title=From Álmos to Saint Stephen |url=https://rubicon.hu/cikkek/almostol-szent-istvanig |journal=Rubicon (Hungarian Historical Information Dissemination) |language=hu}}</ref> The downfall of the Avar Khaganate at the beginning of the 9th century did not mean the extinction of the Avar population, contemporary written sources report surviving Avar groups.<ref name=":1b2"/> According to the archaeological evidence, the Avar population survived the time of the ].<ref name="Szabados-2016"/><ref name="Revesz-2014"/>
Due to climatic changes in the early 1st millennium BC, the Ugrian subgroup known as the ] &ndash; until then living more in the north - moved to the lower ] river, while the Ugrian subgroup being the ancestor of the proto-Magyars remained in the south and became ] herdsmen. From the definitive departure of the Ob-Ugrians (around ]), the ancestors of present-day Magyars can be considered a separate ethnic group &ndash; the proto-Magyars. During the following centuries, the proto-Magyars still lived in the wood-steppes and steppes southeast of the Ural Mountains, and they were immediate neighbours of and were strongly influenced by the ancient ].


In 862, Prince ] rebelled against the ], and after hiring Hungarian troops, won his independence; this was the first time that Hungarians expeditionary troops entered the Carpathian Basin.<ref name="Bona-2001">{{Cite book |last=Bóna |first=István |title=History of Transylvania Volume I. From the Beginnings to 1606 - II. From Dacia to Erdőelve: Transylvania in the Period of the Great Migrations (271-896) - 7. Transylvania in the Period of the Hungarian Conquest and Foundation of a State |publisher=Columbia University Press, (The Hungarian original by Institute of History Of The Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |year=2001 |isbn=0-88033-479-7 |location=New York |chapter=Conquest, Settlement, and Raids |language=en |chapter-url=https://mek.oszk.hu/03400/03407/html/52.html }}</ref><ref>Kosáry Domokos, ''Bevezetés a magyar történelem forrásaiba és irodalmába 1'', p. 29</ref> In 862, Archbishop ] records the campaign of unknown enemies called "Ungri", giving the first mention of the Hungarians in ]. In 881, the Hungarian forces fought together with the Kabars in the ].<ref name="Bona-2001" /><ref name="Oktatasi Hivatal-2020">{{Cite book |title=Történelem 5. az általános iskolások számára |year=2020 |url=https://www.tankonyvkatalogus.hu/pdf/OH-TOR05TB__teljes.pdf |publisher=Oktatási Hivatal (Hungarian Educational Authority) |isbn=978-615-6178-37-4 |pages=15, 112, 116, 137, 138, 141 |language=hu |trans-title=History 5. for primary school students |access-date=29 June 2023 |archive-date=21 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221015211/https://www.tankonyvkatalogus.hu/pdf/OH-TOR05TB__teljes.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> According to historian György Szabados and archeologist Miklós Béla Szőke, a group of Hungarians were already living in the Carpathian Basin at that time, so they could quickly intervene in the events of the ].<ref name="Szoke-2014"/><ref name="Szabados-2016"/><ref name=":1b2"/><ref name="Szabados-2022"/><ref name="Oktatasi Hivatal-2020"/> The number of recorded battles increased from the end of the 9th century.<ref name="Szabados-2022"/> In the late Avar period, a part of Hungarians was already present in the Carpathian Basin in the 9th century, this has been supported by genetic and archaeological research, because there are graves in which Avar descendants are buried in Hungarian clothes.<ref name="Makoldi-2021">{{Cite web |last=Makoldi |first=Miklós |date=December 2021 |title=A magyarság származása |trans-title=The Origin of Hungarians |url=https://www.oktatas.hu/pub_bin/dload/kozoktatas/uj_kozneveles/2022_01/UKN_2201_21_A_magyarsag_szarmazasa.pdf |website=Oktatási Hivatal (Office of Education) |language=hu}}</ref><ref name="Oktatasi Hivatal-2020" /> An important segment of this Avar era Hungarians is that the ] of King ] may be largely based on the power centers formed during the Avar period.<ref name="Makoldi-2021" /> According to some genetic studies, there is a genetic continuity from the ], a continuous migration of the ] folks from east to the Carpathian Basin.<ref name="MKI-2022">{{Cite web |date=12 October 2022 |title=Evidence of the Hun-Avar-Hungarian kinship rewrites our knowledge about the Hungarian conquest |url=https://mki.gov.hu/en/videok-en/mediaszereplesek-en/a-hun-avar-magyar-rokonsag-bizonyitekai-en |website=Institute of Hungarian Research}}</ref>
=== Bashkiria and the Khazar khaganate (4th century &ndash; c. 830 AD) ===
In the 4th and 5th centuries AD, the Proto-Magyars moved to the west of the Ural Mountains to the area between the southern Ural Mountains and the ] river (]).


The foundation of the ] is connected to the ], who arrived from the ] as a confederation of seven tribes. The Hungarians arrived in the frame of a strong centralized steppe-empire under the leadership of Grand Prince ] and his son ], they became founders of the ], the Hungarian ruling dynasty and the Hungarian state. The ] claimed to be a direct descendant of the great Hun leader ].<ref name="Horvath-Lugossy-2022a">{{Cite book |last1=Horváth-Lugossy |first1=Gábor |url=https://mki.gov.hu/assets/pdf/MKI_EN_006_kings_and_saints_B5_web.pdf |title=Kings and Saints - The Age of the Árpáds |last2=Makoldi |first2=Miklós |last3=Neparáczki |first3=Endre |publisher=Institute of Hungarian Research |year=2022 |isbn=978-615-6117-65-6 |location=Budapest, Székesfehérvár}}</ref> Medieval Hungarian chronicles from the ] like the '']'', ''], ],'' ], '']'' claimed that the ] and the ] are the descendants of Attila.<ref name="Horvath-Lugossy-2022a" />
In the early 8th century, a part of the proto-Magyars moved to the ] river (to a territory between the Volga, the Don and the ]), a territory later called Levedia. The descendants of those proto-Magyars who stayed in Bashkiria were seen in Bashkiria as late as in ].
Indeed, many historical references related both the Magyars (Hungarians) and the Bashkirs as two branches of the same nation. However, modern Bashkirs are quite different from their original stock, largely decimated during the ] invasion (13th century), and assimilated into Turkic peoples.


Árpád, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, says in the '']'':
The proto-Magyars around the Don river were subordinates of the ] ]. Their neighbours were the archaeological ], i.e. ] (Proto-Bulgarians, descendants of the ]) and the ], from whom they learned gardening, elements of cattle breeding and of agriculture. The ] and Magyars shared a long-lasting relationship in ], either by alliance or rivalry. The system of 2 rulers (later known as ] and ]) is also thought to be a major inheritance from the Khazars. Tradition holds that the Magyars were organized in a confederacy of seven tribes called ''Jenő'', ''Kér'', ''Keszi'', ''Kürt-Gyarmat'', ''Megyer'' (Magyar), ''Nyék'', and ''Tarján''.


{{Blockquote|''The land stretching between the Danube and the Tisza used to belong to my forefather, the mighty Attila.''|]: '']''<ref>{{cite web |title=The ''Gesta Hungarorum'' of Anonymus, Notary of King Béla |translator=Martyn Rady |url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/18975/1/18975.pdf |access-date=2023-11-09}}</ref>}}The Hungarians took possession of the ] in a pre-planned manner, with a long move-in between 862 and 895.<ref name="Szoke-2014"/><ref name="Szabados-2016"/><ref name="Wang-2021">{{Cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Chuan-Chao |last2=Posth |first2=Cosimo |last3=Furtwängler |first3=Anja |last4=Sümegi |first4=Katalin |last5=Bánfai |first5=Zsolt |last6=Kásler |first6=Miklós |last7=Krause |first7=Johannes |last8=Melegh |first8=Béla |date=28 September 2021 |title=Genome-wide autosomal, mtDNA, and Y chromosome analysis of King Bela III of the Hungarian Arpad dynasty |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=19210 |bibcode=2021NatSR..1119210W |doi=10.1038/s41598-021-98796-x |pmc=8478946 |pmid=34584164}}</ref><ref name="Sudar-2016"/><ref name="Revesz-2014"/><ref name="Szabados-2022"/><ref name="Oktatasi Hivatal-2020"/><ref name="Negyesi-2011"/> This is confirmed by the archaeological findings, in the 10th-century Hungarian cemeteries, the graves of women, children and elderly people are located next to the warriors, they were buried according to the same traditions, wore the same style of ornaments, and belonged to the same anthropological group. ] of the following years prove that the Hungarian population that settled in the Carpathian Basin was not a weakened population without a significant military power.<ref name="Revesz-2014"/> Other theories assert that the move of the Hungarians was forced or at least hastened by the joint attacks of ] and ].<ref name="Revesz-2014"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tóth |first=Sándor László |title=Levédiától a Kárpát-medencéig |publisher=Szegedi Középkorász Műhely |year=1998 |isbn=963-482-175-8 |language=hu |trans-title=From Levedia to the Carpathian Basin}}</ref> According to eleventh-century tradition, the road taken by the Hungarians under Prince ] took them first to Transylvania in 895. This is supported by an eleventh-century Russian tradition that the Hungarians moved to the Carpathian Basin by way of ].<ref>{{cite book |author=Peter F. Sugar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SKwmGQCT0MAC&q=Transylvania+hungarian+conquest+895&pg=PA11 |title=A History of Hungary |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-253-20867-5 |page=11 | publisher=Indiana University Press |access-date=2017-07-10}}</ref> Prince ], the sacred leader of the Hungarian Great Principality died before he could reach ], he was sacrificed in Transylvania.<ref name="Bona-2001"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kalti |first=Mark |url=https://mek.oszk.hu/10600/10642/10642.htm |title=Chronicon Pictum |language=hu}}</ref>
=== Etelköz (c. 830 &ndash; c. 895)===
Around ], a civil war broke out in the Khazar khaganate. As a result, three ] tribes out of the Khazars joined the Proto-Magyars and they moved to what the Magyars call the ], i.e. the territory between the ] and the ] river (today's ]). Around ], the Proto-Magyars had to face a first attack by the ]. (According to other sources, the reason for the departure of the Proto-Magyars to Etelköz was the attack of the Pechenegs.) Both the Kabars and earlier the ] may have taught the Magyars their ] languages; according to the Finno-Ugric theory, this is used to account for at least 300 Turkic words and names still in modern Hungarian. The new neighbours of the Proto-Magyars were the ] and the eastern ]. Archaeological findings suggest that the Proto-Magyars entered into intense interaction with both groups. From ] onwards, the proto-Magyars (already referred to as the ''Ungri'') along with their allies, the Kabars, started a series of looting raids from the Etelköz to the Carpathian Basin -- mostly against the ] (]) and ], but also against the ] and ].


In 895/896, under the leadership of ], some Hungarians crossed the ] and entered the ]. The tribe called ''Megyer'' was the leading tribe of the Hungarian alliance that conquered the centre of the basin. At the same time (c. 895), due to their involvement in the 894–896 ], Hungarians in Etelköz were attacked by Bulgaria and then by their old enemies the Pechenegs. The ] won the decisive ]. It is uncertain whether or not those conflicts contributed to the Hungarian departure from Etelköz.
=== Entering the Carpathian Basin (after 895) ===
In ]/], probably under the leadership of ], a part of them crossed the ] to enter the ]. The tribe called Magyars (''Megyer'') was the leading tribe of the Magyar alliance that conquered the center of the basin. At the same time (c. 895), the proto-Magyars in Etelköz were attacked by ] (due to the involvement of the proto-Magyars in the Bulgaro-] war of 894-896), and then by their old enemies, the Pechenegs. It is uncertain whether or not those conflicts were the cause of the Magyar departure from Etelköz.


In the Carpathian Basin, the Magyars initially occupied the Great Moravian territory at the upper/middle ] river &ndash; a scarcely populated territory, where, according to Arabian sources, Great Moravia used to send its criminals, and where the ] had settled the ] centuries earlier. From there, they intensified their looting raids all over continental Europe. In ], they moved from the upper Tisza river to Transdanubia (]), which later became the core of the arising Hungarian state. Their allies, the Kabars, probably led by ], probably settled in the region around ]. Upon entering the Carpathian basin, the Magyars found a largely Slavic population there, such as the ], ], ], ] etc., and minor remnants of the ] (in the southwest). Influenced by the Slavic population of this territory, the Magyars gradually changed their pastoral way of life to an agricultural one, and borrowed hundreds of Slavic words. See ] for a continuation, and ] for the background. From the upper ] region of the Carpathian Basin, the Hungarians intensified their campaigns across continental Europe. In 900, they moved from the upper Tisza river to ], which later became the core of the arising Hungarian state. By 902, the borders were pushed to the ] and the ] collapsed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Csorba |first=Csaba |url= |title=Árpád népe |publisher=Kulturtrade kiadó |year=1997 |isbn=978-963-9069-20-6 |location=] |language=hu |trans-title=The people of Árpád |issn=1417-6114}}</ref> At the time of the Hungarian migration, the land was inhabited only by a sparse population of Slavs, numbering about 200,000,<ref name="HungaryEarlyHistory" /> who were either assimilated or enslaved by the Hungarians.<ref name="HungaryEarlyHistory" />


Many of the "proto-Magyars", however, remained to the north of the Carpathians after 895/896, as archaeological findings e.g. in Polish ] suggest. They seem to have joined the other Magyars in 900. There is also a consistent Hungarian population in ] that is historically not related to the Magyars led by Árpád: the ]s, the main ethnic component of the Hungarian minority in Romania. They are fully acknowledged as Magyars. The Székely people's origin, and in particular the time of their settlement in Transylvania, is a matter of historical controversy; see ] for details. Archaeological findings (e.g. in the ] city of ]) suggest that many Hungarians remained to the north of the Carpathians after 895/896.<ref>Koperski, A.: Przemyśl (Lengyelország). In: A honfoglaló magyarság. Kiállítási katalógus. Bp. 1996. pp. 439–448.</ref> There is also a consistent Hungarian population in Transylvania, the ], who comprise 40% of the ].<ref>{{cite book|title=Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-century Central-Eastern Europe|author=Piotr Eberhardt|publisher=M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY and London, England, 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jLfX1q3kJzgC&q=Ethnic+Groups+and+Population+Changes+in+Twentieth-century+Central-Eastern|isbn=978-0-7656-0665-5|year=2003}}</ref><ref name=Britannica>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Szekler people|encyclopedia=]|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Szekler}}</ref> The Székely people's origin, and in particular the time of their settlement in Transylvania, is a matter of historical controversy.


== Later genetic influences == === After 900 ===
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Besides the various peoples mentioned above, who mixed with the Magyars during their long way to and at their arrival in Hungary, the Magyars also include "genes" from other peoples settled in this territory after the arrival of the Magyars, for example the ], the ] and the ] in the ], the ] &ndash; who occupied the central part of present-day Hungary from c. ] to c. ] - and especially the various nations (], ], ], ] and others), invited to resettle the depopulated territories after the departure of the Turks in the 18th century. A Jewish and Gypsy minority has been living in Hungary since the Middle Ages - all of them added their contribution in composing the modern Hungarian nation.
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In 907, the Hungarians destroyed a ]n army in the ] 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 ], son of ] and last legitimate descendant of the German branch of the house of ], near ] in 910. From 917 to 925, Hungarians raided through ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web|author=Stephen Wyley |url=http://www.geocities.com/egfrothos/magyars/magyars.html |title=The Hungarians of Hungary |access-date=22 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027151814/http://www.geocities.com/egfrothos/magyars/magyars.html |archive-date=27 October 2009 }}</ref> Hungarian expansion was checked at the ] in 955, ending their raids against ], but raids on the ] continued until 970.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/eceurope/xkgdhungary.html |title=History of Hungary, 895–970 |publisher=Zum.de |access-date=22 August 2013}}</ref>


The ] approved Hungarian settlement in the area when their leaders converted to ], and ] (''Szent István'', or Saint Stephen) was crowned King of Hungary in 1001. The century between the arrival of the Hungarians from the eastern European plains and the consolidation of the ] in 1001 was dominated by pillaging campaigns across Europe, from Dania (]) to the ] (contemporary ] and ]).{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} After the acceptance of the nation into Christian Europe under Stephen I, Hungary served as a bulwark against further invasions from the east and south, especially by the Turks.
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At this time, the Hungarian nation numbered around 400,000 people.<ref name="HungaryEarlyHistory"/>

=== Early modern period ===
The first accurate measurements of the population of the Kingdom of Hungary including ethnic composition were carried out in 1850–51. There is a debate among Hungarian and non-Hungarian (especially ] and ]) historians about the possible changes in the ethnic structure of the region throughout history. The proportion of Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin was at an almost constant 80% during the ].<ref name="carth">''Historical World Atlas. With the commendation of the ].'' Carthographia, ], ], 2005. {{ISBN|978-963-352-002-4}} CM</ref> The Hungarian population began to decrease only at the time of the ] conquest, reaching as low as around 39% by the end of the 18th century.<ref name="National Atlas of Hungary - History of Population">{{Cite book |last1=Őri |first1=Péter |url=https://nemzetiatlasz.hu/en/home.html |title=National Atlas of Hungary – Volume 3 – Society |last2=Kocsis |first2=Károly |last3=Faragó |first3=Tamás |last4=Tóth |first4=Pál Péter |publisher=Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH), Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK), Geographical Institute |year=2021 |isbn=978-963-9545-64-9 |editor-last=Kocsis |editor-first=Károly |location=Budapest |chapter=History of Population |editor-last2=Őri |editor-first2=Péter |chapter-url=https://www.nemzetiatlasz.hu/MNA/National-Atlas-of-Hungary_Vol3_Ch2.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Ethnic patterns Hungary researches">{{Cite book |last1=Kocsis |first1=Károly |url=https://www.mtafki.hu/konyvtar/karpat-pannon2015/pdf/Changing_Ethnic_Pattern_Carpatho_Pannonian_Area_2015.pdf |title=Changing Ethnic Patterns of the Carpatho–Pannonian Area from the Late 15th until the Early 21st Century – Accompanying Text |last2=Tátrai |first2=Patrik |last3=Agárdi |first3=Norbert |last4=Balizs |first4=Dániel |last5=Kovács |first5=Anikó |last6=Gercsák |first6=Tibor |last7=Klinghammer |first7=István |last8=Tiner |first8=Tibor |publisher=Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Geographical Institute |year=2015 |isbn=978-963-9545-48-9 |edition=3rd |location=Budapest |language=hu, en}}</ref>

The decline of the Hungarians was due to the constant wars, Ottoman raids, famines, and plagues during the 150 years of Ottoman rule. The main zones of war were the territories inhabited by the Hungarians, so the death toll depleted them at a much higher rate than among other nationalities.<ref name="National Atlas of Hungary - History of Population" /><ref name="Ethnic patterns Hungary researches" /> In the 18th century, their proportion declined further because of the influx of new settlers from Europe, especially Slovaks, ] and ].<ref name="Macartney1962">{{citation|last=Macartney|first=Carlile Aylmer |author-link=Carlile Aylmer Macartney |title=Hungary; A short history|chapter-url=http://mek.niif.hu/02000/02086/02086.htm |access-date=3 August 2016|year=1962 |publisher=University Press|chapter=5. The Eighteenth Century}}</ref> In 1715 (after the Ottoman occupation), the ] was nearly uninhabited but now has 1.3 million inhabitants, nearly all of them Hungarians. As a consequence, having also the Habsburg colonization policies, the country underwent a great change in ethnic composition as its population more than tripled to 8 million between 1720 and 1787, while only 39% of its people were Hungarians, who lived primarily in the centre of the country.<ref name="Hungary">{{cite book |title=A Country Study: Hungary |publisher=Federal Research Division, ]|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+hu0028)|chapter=Chapter 1. Historical Setting|page=21|access-date=6 March 2009}}</ref>
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=== 19th century to present ===
In the 19th century, the proportion of Hungarians in the Kingdom of Hungary rose gradually, reaching over 50% by 1900 due to higher natural growth and ]. Between 1787 and 1910 the number of ethnic Hungarians rose from 2.3 million to 10.2 million, accompanied by the resettlement of the ] and ] by mainly ] Hungarian settlers from the northern and western counties of the Kingdom of Hungary. Spontaneous assimilation was an important factor, especially among the German and Jewish minorities and the citizens of the bigger towns. On the other hand, about 1.5 million people (about two-thirds non-Hungarian) left the ] between 1890–1910 to escape from ].<ref name="immigrants">{{cite web|first1=Jonathan|last1=Lee|author2=Robert Siemborski|url=http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/waves_of_immigration.html|title=Peaks/waves of immigration|publisher=bergen.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970616234806/http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Immigration/waves_of_immigration.html|archive-date=16 June 1997}}</ref>

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The years 1918 to 1920 were a turning point in the Hungarians' history. By the ], the Kingdom had been cut into several parts, leaving only a quarter of its original size. One-third of the Hungarians became minorities in the neighbouring countries.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kocsis |first=Károly |title=Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-zZ_NVM9mNEC&q=one+third+of+Hungarian+people+minorities+in+the+neighbouring+countries+Trianon&pg=PA9 |access-date=21 May 2008 |year=1998 |publisher=Simon Publications LLC |isbn=978-1-931313-75-9 |chapter=Introduction }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> During the remainder of the 20th century, the Hungarians population of Hungary grew from 7.1 million (1920) to around 10.4 million (1980), despite losses during the ] and the wave of emigration after the attempted ].

The number of Hungarians in the neighbouring countries tended to remain the same or slightly decreased, mostly due to assimilation (sometimes forced; see ] and ])<ref>{{cite book|last=Bugajski|first=Janusz|title=Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: A Guide to Nationality Policies, Organizations, and Parties|publisher=M.E. Sharpe (Washington, D.C.)|year=1995|url=https://archive.org/details/ethnicpoliticsin0000buga|isbn=978-1-56324-283-0|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="kovrig">Kovrig, Bennett (2000), ''Partitioned nation: Hungarian minorities in Central Europe'', in: Michael Mandelbaum (ed.), ''The new European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe'', ]: ] Press, pp. 19–80.</ref><ref>Raffay Ernő: ''A vajdaságoktól a birodalomig. Az újkori Románia története'' (From voivodeships to the empire. The modern history of Romania). Publishing house ''JATE Kiadó'', Szeged, 1989, pp. 155–156)</ref> and to emigration to Hungary (in the 1990s, especially from ] and ]). After the ] (''Ratkó era''), a serious demographic crisis began to develop in Hungary and its neighbours.<ref name=origo/> The Hungarian population reached its maximum in 1980, then began to decline.<ref name=origo>{{cite web | title= Nyolcmillió lehet a magyar népesség 2050-re| date=14 April 2005 | url=http://www.origo.hu/itthon/20050414nyolcmillio.html | publisher=origo | access-date=19 April 2009}}</ref>

For historical reasons (see ]), significant Hungarian minority populations can be found in the surrounding countries, most of them in ] (in ]), ], and ] (in ]). Sizable minorities live also in ] (in ]), ] (primarily ]), and ] (in ]). Slovenia is also host to a number of ethnic Hungarians, and Hungarian language has an official status in parts of the ] region. Today more than two million ethnic Hungarians live in nearby countries.<ref>. Migration Information Source. November 2003.</ref>

There was ] on whether to grant Hungarian ] to Hungarians living outside Hungary's borders (i.e. without requiring a permanent residence in Hungary). The referendum failed due to insufficient ]. On 26 May 2010, Hungary's Parliament passed a bill granting dual citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living outside of Hungary. Some neighboring countries with sizable Hungarian minorities expressed concerns over the legislation.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hungary Citizenship Bill Irks Neighbor |author=Veronika Gulyas |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2010/05/26/hungary-angers-neighbor-with-citizenship-bill |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=26 May 2010}}</ref>

==Ethnic affiliations and genetic origins==
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Modern Hungarians stand out as linguistically isolated in Europe, despite their genetic similarity to the surrounding populations. The population of the ] has the common European gene-pool which formed in the ] through the admixture of three sources: ]s, who were the first Homo sapiens appearing in ], ] farmers originating from ], and ] steppe migrants that arrived in the ] to early Bronze Age. This common European gene pool in the Carpathian Basin, has been overlaid by migration waves originating from the east since the ].<ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023">{{Cite journal |last=Török |first=Tibor |date=26 June 2023 |title=Integrating Linguistic, Archaeological and Genetic Perspectives Unfold the Origin of Ugrians |journal= Genes|volume=14 |issue=7 |pages=1345 |doi=10.3390/genes14071345 |pmc=10379071 |pmid=37510249 |doi-access=free}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4|from this source=yes}}</ref> According to genetic studies, the Carpathian Basin was continuously inhabited from at least the Bronze Age.<ref name="Neparaczki MKI 2022">{{cite web |last=Endre |first=Neparáczki |date=22 August 2022 |title=Saint László is more Asian than most of our kings |url=https://mki.gov.hu/en/hirek-en/sajto-en/szent-laszlo-en |website=Magyarságkutató Intézet (Institute of Hungarian Research)}}</ref><ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023" /> There is a genetic continuity from the ], a continuous migration of the ] folks from east to the Carpathian Basin.<ref name="Saag Staniuk 2022">{{cite journal |last1=Saag |first1=Lehti |last2=Staniuk |first2=Robert |date=11 July 2022 |title=Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin |journal=] |volume=32 |issue=13 |pages=38–41 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2022.05.058 |pmid=35820383 |s2cid=250443139 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2022CBio...32.R738S }}</ref><ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023" /> The foundational population of the Carpathian Basin carrying the common European gene pool remained in a significant majority throughout the migratory periods in the Carpathian Basin.<ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023" /> During the 9th century BC, smaller groups of pre-Scythians (]) of the Mezőcsát culture appeared. The classic ] culture spread across the ] between the 7th–6th century BC, their genetic data represent the genetic profile of the local European population. The ] arrived in multiple waves from 50 BC, leaving a significant archaeological heritage behind, the examined Sarmatian individuals genetically also belong to the genetic legacy of the local European population. Various groups of Asian origin settled in the Carpathian Basin, such as ], ], ], ], ] people, and ]. The military leadership of the European Huns descended from the Asian Huns (]s), while the majority of them consisted of subjugated Germanic and Sarmatian populations. The most significant influx of genes from Asia occurred during the Avar period, arriving in multiple waves. The ruling elite of the Avars originated from the ] in Mongolia, but a significant portion of the masses they brought in consisted of mixed-origin populations that had emerged in the ] during the Hunnic era.<ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023" /> Foundation of the ] is connected to the ], who arrived from the Pontic steppes as a confederation of ].<ref name="Neparaczki-2019">{{Cite journal |last1=Neparáczki |first1=Endre |last2=Maróti |first2=Zoltán |last3=Kalmár |first3=Tibor |last4=Maár |first4=Kitti |last5=Nagy |first5=István |last6=Latinovics |first6=Dóra |last7=Kustár |first7=Ágnes |last8=Pálfi |first8=György |last9=Molnár |first9=Erika |last10=Marcsik |first10=Antónia |last11=Balogh |first11=Csilla |last12=Lőrinczy |first12=Gábor |last13=Tomka |first13=Péter |last14=Kovacsóczy |first14=Bernadett |last15=Kovács |first15=László |date=12 November 2019 |title=Y-chromosome haplogroups from Hun, Avar and conquering Hungarian period nomadic people of the Carpathian Basin |journal=Scientific Reports |volume=9 |issue=1 |page=16569 |bibcode=2019NatSR...916569N |doi=10.1038/s41598-019-53105-5 |pmc=6851379 |pmid=31719606 |last16=Török |first16=Tibor}}</ref><ref name="Neparaczki-2018">{{Cite journal |last1=Neparáczki |first1=Endre |last2=Maróti |first2=Zoltán |last3=Kalmár |first3=Tibor |last4=Kocsy |first4=Klaudia |last5=Maár |first5=Kitti |last6=Bihari |first6=Péter |last7=Nagy |first7=István |last8=Fóthi |first8=Erzsébet |last9=Pap |first9=Ildikó |last10=Kustár |first10=Ágnes |last11=Pálfi |first11=György |last12=Raskó |first12=István |last13=Zink |first13=Albert |last14=Török |first14=Tibor |date=18 October 2018 |title=Mitogenomic data indicate admixture components of Central-Inner Asian and Srubnaya origin in the conquering Hungarians |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=13 |issue=10 |pages=e0205920 |bibcode=2018PLoSO..1305920N |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0205920 |pmc=6193700 |pmid=30335830 |doi-access=free}}</ref> According to genetic study, the proto-Ugric groups were part of the ] societies in the late Bronze Age to early Iron Age steppe-forest zone in the northern Kazakhstan region, near of the ] territory. The ancestors of the Hungarian conquerors lived in the ] during the ] together with the ]. During the ], the Mansis migrated northward, while the ancestor of Hungarian conquerors remained at the steppe-forest zone and admixed with the ]. Later the ancestors of the Hungarian conquerors admixed with the ], this admixture happened before the arrival of the Huns to the Volga region in 370. The Huns integrated local tribes east of the Urals, among them Sarmatians and the ancestors of the Hungarian conquerors.<ref name="Hun Avar Hungarian Genetics 2022">{{cite journal |last1=Maróti |first1=Zoltán |last2=Neparáczki |first2=Endre |last3=Schütz |first3=Oszkár |last4=Maár |first4=Kitti |last5=Varga |first5=Gergely I.B. |last6=Kovács |first6=Bence |last7=Kalmár |first7=Tibor |last8=Nyerki |first8=Emil |last9=Nagy |first9=István |last10=Latinovics |first10=Dóra |last11=Tihanyi |first11=Balázs |last12=Marcsik |first12=Antónia |last13=Pálfi |first13=György |last14=Bernert |first14=Zsolt |last15=Gallina |first15=Zsolt |date=25 May 2022 |title=The genetic origin of Huns, Avars, and conquering Hungarians |url=https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00732-1 |journal=Current Biology |volume=32 |issue=13 |pages=2858–2870.e7 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.093 |pmid=35617951 |s2cid=246191357 |last16=Horváth |first16=Ciprián |last17=Varga |first17=Sándor |last18=Költő |first18=László |last19=Raskó |first19=István |last20=Nagy |first20=Péter L. |last21=Balogh |first21=Csilla |last22=Zink |first22=Albert |last23=Maixner |first23=Frank |last24=Götherström |first24=Anders |last25=George |first25=Robert |last26=Szalontai |first26=Csaba |last27=Szenthe |first27=Gergely |last28=Gáll |first28=Erwin |last29=Kiss |first29=Attila P. |last30=Gulyás |first30=Bence |last31=Kovacsóczy |first31=Bernadett Ny. |last32=Gál |first32=Sándor Szilárd |last33=Tomka |first33=Péter |last34=Török |first34=Tibor|bibcode=2022CBio...32E2858M }}</ref><ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023" /> The Hungarians arrived in the frame of a strong centralized steppe-empire under the leadership of Grand Prince ] and his son ], they became founders of the ], the Hungarian ruling dynasty and the Hungarian state. The ] claimed to be a direct descendant of the great Hun leader ].<ref name="Horvath-Lugossy-2022b">{{Cite book |last1=Horváth-Lugossy |first1=Gábor |url=https://mki.gov.hu/assets/pdf/MKI_EN_006_kings_and_saints_B5_web.pdf |title=Kings and Saints – The Age of the Árpáds |last2=Makoldi |first2=Miklós |last3=Neparáczki |first3=Endre |publisher=Institute of Hungarian Research |year=2022 |isbn=978-615-6117-65-6 |location=Budapest, Székesfehérvár}}</ref><ref name="Neparaczki-2019" /><ref name="Neparaczki-2018" /> The elite of the conquering Hungarians established the Hungarian state, genetic studies revealed, the conqueror elite in both sexes has approximately 30% Eastern Eurasian components, while the commoner population appears to have carried the overlaid local European gene pool from previous eastern immigrations.<ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023" /> In medieval ], a legend developed based on foreign and Hungarian medieval chronicles that the Hungarians, and the ] ethnic group in particular, are descended from the Huns. The basic premise of the ] tradition was that the Huns, i.e. the Hungarians coming out twice from ], the guiding principle was the Hun-Hungarian continuity.<ref name="Gyorgy-1998">{{Cite book |last=György |first=Szabados |url=https://epa.oszk.hu/00000/00001/00007/index.htm |title=Irodalomtörténeti Közlemények 1998. 102. évf. 5-6. füzet |publisher=MTA Irodalomtudományi Intézet (Institute for Literary Studies of Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |year=1998 |pages=615–641 |language=hu |trans-title=Bulletins of Literary History 1998, Vol. 102, Booklets 5-6 |chapter=A krónikáktól a Gestáig – Az előidő-szemlélet hangsúlyváltásai a 15–18. században |trans-chapter=From the chronicles to the Gesta - Shifts in emphasis of the pre-time perspective in the 15th–18th centuries |issn=0021-1486 |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/28283729}}</ref> The 20th century mainstream scholarship dismisses a close connection between the Hungarians and Huns.{{sfnm|1a1=Szűcs|1y=1999|1p=xliv |2a1=Engel|2y=2001|2p=2 |3a1=Lendvai|3y=2003|3p=7 |4a1=Maenchen-Helfen|4y=1973|4p=386}} However, the archaeogenetics studies revealed the Hun heritage of the ], it was a significant Hun-Hungarian mixing around 300 AD, and the remaining Huns were integrated into the conquering Hungarians.<ref name="Hun Avar Hungarian Genetics 2022" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Keyser |first1=Christine |last2=Zvénigorosky |first2=Vincent |last3=Gonzalez |first3=Angéla |last4=Fausser |first4=Jean-Luc |last5=Jagorel |first5=Florence |last6=Gérard |first6=Patrice |last7=Tsagaan |first7=Turbat |last8=Duchesne |first8=Sylvie |last9=Crubézy |first9=Eric |last10=Ludes |first10=Bertrand |date=30 July 2020 |title=Genetic evidence suggests a sense of family, parity and conquest in the Xiongnu Iron Age nomads of Mongolia |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00439-020-02209-4 |journal= Human Genetics|volume=140 |issue=2 |pages=349–359 |doi=10.1007/s00439-020-02209-4 |pmid=32734383 |s2cid=253981964 |quote=East Eurasian R1a subclades R1a1a1b2a-Z94 and R1a1a1b2a2-Z2124 were a common element of the Hun, Avar and Hungarian Conqueror elite and very likely belonged to the branch that was observed in our Xiongnu samples. Moreover, haplogroups Q1a and N1a were also major components of these nomadic groups, reinforcing the view that Huns (and thus Avars and Hungarian invaders) might derive from the Xiongnu as was proposed until the eighteenth century but strongly disputed since.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Quiles |first=Carlos |date=2 August 2020 |title=Xiongnu Y-DNA connects Huns & Avars to Scytho-Siberians |url=https://indo-european.eu/2020/08/xiongnu-ancestry-connects-huns-avars-to-scytho-siberians/ |website=Indo-European.eu}}</ref><ref name="MKI-2022" /> The genomic analyses of the ] Árpád family members are in line with the reported conquering Hungarian-Hun origin of the dynasty in harmony with their Y-chromosomal phylogenetic connections.<ref name="Saint Ladislaus Genetics 2023">{{Cite journal |last1=Varga |first1=Gergely I B |last2=Kristóf |first2=Lilla Alida |last3=Maár |first3=Kitti |last4=Kis |first4=Luca |last5=Schütz |first5=Oszkár |last6=Váradi |first6=Orsolya |last7=Kovács |first7=Bence |last8=Gînguță |first8=Alexandra |last9=Tihanyi |first9=Balázs |last10=Nagy |first10=Péter L |last11=Maróti |first11=Zoltán |last12=Nyerki |first12=Emil |last13=Török |first13=Tibor |last14=Neparáczki |first14=Endre |date=January 2023 |title=The archaeogenomic validation of Saint Ladislaus' relic provides insights into the Árpád dynasty's genealogy |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35809778/ |journal=Journal of Genetics and Genomics = Yi Chuan Xue Bao |volume=50 |issue=1 |pages=58–61 |bibcode= |doi=10.1016/j.jgg.2022.06.008 |pmc= |pmid=35809778}}</ref> According to the growing archaeological evidence that the ] population lived through the period of the ]. The Carpathian Basin was demonstrably not empty when the Hungarian conquerors led by Árpád arrived. The conquering Hungarians mixed to varying degrees on individual level with the Avar population living in the Carpathian Basin, but they had Avar genetic heritage as well.<ref name="Neparaczki MKI 2022" /> According to Endre Neparáczki, it is no longer possible to narrow down the Hungarian population of the Carpathian Basin only of people of Árpád.<ref name="Neparaczki MKI 2022" /> Following the devastations caused by the ] and ] invasions, settlers from other parts of Europe played a significant role in establishing the modern genetic makeup of the Carpathian Basin.<ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023" />

The ] belongs to the ]. While early Ugric-speakers can be associated with an ancestry component maximized in modern-day ]/] and historical Southern Siberian groups such as the ] people, the earliest Uralic-speakers can be associated with an ] lineage maximized among modern ] and a ] specimen from ] in southern Siberia (Krasnoyarsk_Krai_BA; kra001).<ref name="Gurkan-2019">{{Cite journal |last=Gurkan |first=Cemal |date=2019-01-08 |title=On The Genetic Continuity of the Iron Age Pazyryk Culture: Geographic Distributions of the Paternal and Maternal Lineages from the Ak-Alakha-1 Burial |journal=International Journal of Human Genetics |volume=19 |issue=1 |doi=10.31901/24566330.2019/19.01.709 |issn=0972-3757|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Peltola |first1=Sanni |last2=Majander |first2=Kerttu |last3=Makarov |first3=Nikolaj |last4=Dobrovolskaya |first4=Maria |last5=Nordqvist |first5=Kerkko |last6=Salmela |first6=Elina |last7=Onkamo |first7=Päivi |date=2023-01-09 |title=Genetic admixture and language shift in the medieval Volga-Oka interfluve |journal=Current Biology |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=174–182.e10 |issn=0960-9822 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.036 |pmid=36513080 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2023CBio...33E.174P }}</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">{{Cite journal |last1=Kharkov |first1=V.N. |last2=Kolesnikov |first2=N.A. |last3=Valikhova |first3=L.V. |last4=Zarubin |first4=A.A. |last5=Svarovskaya |first5=M.G. |last6=Marusin |first6=A.V. |last7=Khitrinskaya |first7=I.Yu. |last8=Stepanov |first8=V.A. |date=March 2023 |title=Relationship of the gene pool of the Khants with the peoples of Western Siberia, Cis-Urals and the Altai-Sayan Region according to the data on the polymorphism of autosomic locus and the Y-chromosome |journal=Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=46–54 |doi=10.18699/VJGB-23-07 |issn=2500-0462 |pmid=36923476|pmc=10009483 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Ke |last2=Yu |first2=He |last3=Radzevičiūtė |first3=Rita |last4=Kiryushin |first4=Yuriy F. |last5=Tishkin |first5=Alexey A. |last6=Frolov |first6=Yaroslav V. |last7=Stepanova |first7=Nadezhda F. |last8=Kiryushin |first8=Kirill Yu. |last9=Kungurov |first9=Artur L. |last10=Shnaider |first10=Svetlana V. |last11=Tur |first11=Svetlana S. |last12=Tiunov |first12=Mikhail P. |last13=Zubova |first13=Alisa V. |last14=Pevzner |first14=Maria |last15=Karimov |first15=Timur |date=2023-02-06 |title=Middle Holocene Siberian genomes reveal highly connected gene pools throughout North Asia |journal=Current Biology |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=423–433.e5 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.062 |pmid=36638796 |s2cid=255750546 |issn=0960-9822|doi-access=free |bibcode=2023CBio...33E.423W }}</ref> This type of ancestry later dispersed along the ] westwards. They may also stood in contact with other ]s (partially linked to the ethnogenesis of ] and ]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vidaković |first1=Nenad |title=From the Ethnic History of Asia – the Dōnghú, Wūhuán and Xiānbēi Proto-Mongolian Tribes |journal=Migracijske i etničke teme |date=30 April 2012 |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=75–95 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/121385 |language=hr |issn=1333-2546 |quote=Other types of sources on the history of the Proto-Mongolian tribes are archaeological findings, which associate Mongolian ethnogenesis with slab grave cultures and the Lower Xiàjiādiàn.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Savelyev |first1=Alexander |last2=Jeong |first2=Choongwon |date=2020-05-07 |title=Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West |journal=Evolutionary Human Sciences |volume=2 |pages=E20 |doi=10.1017/ehs.2020.18 |issn=2513-843X |pmc=7612788 |pmid=35663512}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Jeong |first1=Choongwon |last2=Wang |first2=Ke |last3=Wilkin |first3=Shevan |last4=Taylor |first4=William Timothy Treal |last5=Miller |first5=Bryan K. |last6=Bemmann |first6=Jan H. |last7=Stahl |first7=Raphaela |last8=Chiovelli |first8=Chelsea |last9=Knolle |first9=Florian |last10=Ulziibayar |first10=Sodnom |last11=Khatanbaatar |first11=Dorjpurev |last12=Erdenebaatar |first12=Diimaajav |last13=Erdenebat |first13=Ulambayar |last14=Ochir |first14=Ayudai |last15=Ankhsanaa |first15=Ganbold |last16=Vanchigdash |first16=Chuluunkhuu |last17=Ochir |first17=Battuga |last18=Munkhbayar |first18=Chuluunbat |last19=Tumen |first19=Dashzeveg |last20=Kovalev |first20=Alexey |last21=Kradin |first21=Nikolay |last22=Bazarov |first22=Bilikto A. |last23=Miyagashev |first23=Denis A. |last24=Konovalov |first24=Prokopiy B. |last25=Zhambaltarova |first25=Elena |last26=Miller |first26=Alicia Ventresca |last27=Haak |first27=Wolfgang |last28=Schiffels |first28=Stephan |last29=Krause |first29=Johannes |last30=Boivin |first30=Nicole |last31=Erdene |first31=Myagmar |last32=Hendy |first32=Jessica |last33=Warinner |first33=Christina |title=A Dynamic 6,000-Year Genetic History of Eurasia's Eastern Steppe |journal=Cell |date=12 November 2020 |volume=183 |issue=4 |pages=890–904 |doi=10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.015 |pmid=33157037 |pmc=7664836 |issn=0092-8674 |doi-access=free}}</ref>) and ] (Indo-European). Modern Hungarians are however genetically rather distant from their closest linguistic relatives (] and ]), and more similar to the neighbouring non-Uralic neighbors. Modern Hungarians share a small but significant "Inner Asian/Siberian" component with other Uralic-speaking populations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tambets |first1=Kristiina |last2=Yunusbayev |first2=Bayazit |last3=Hudjashov |first3=Georgi |last4=Ilumäe |first4=Anne-Mai |last5=Rootsi |first5=Siiri |last6=Honkola |first6=Terhi |last7=Vesakoski |first7=Outi |last8=Atkinson |first8=Quentin |last9=Skoglund |first9=Pontus |last10=Kushniarevich |first10=Alena |last11=Litvinov |first11=Sergey |last12=Reidla |first12=Maere |last13=Metspalu |first13=Ene |last14=Saag |first14=Lehti |last15=Rantanen |first15=Timo |date=2018-09-21 |title=Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations |journal=Genome Biology |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=139 |doi=10.1186/s13059-018-1522-1 |issn=1474-760X |pmc=6151024 |pmid=30241495 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The historical Hungarian conqueror YDNA variation had a higher affinity with modern day Bashkirs and ] as well as to two specimens of the ], while their mtDNA has strong links to the populations of the ], ], ], ] and ]. Modern Hungarians also display genetic affinity with historical ] samples.<ref name="Fóthi 31">{{Cite journal |last1=Fóthi |first1=Erzsébet |last2=Gonzalez |first2=Angéla |last3=Fehér |first3=Tibor |last4=Gugora|first4=Ariana |last5=Fóthi |first5=Ábel |last6=Biró |first6=Orsolya |last7=Keyser |first7=Christine |date=14 January 2020 |title=Genetic analysis of male Hungarian Conquerors: European and Asian paternal lineages of the conquering Hungarian tribes |journal=Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences |language=en |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=31 |doi=10.1007/s12520-019-00996-0 |bibcode=2020ArAnS..12...31F |s2cid=210168662 |issn=1866-9565|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Gurkan-2019" />

Archeological mtDNA haplogroups show a similarity between Hungarians and Turkic-speaking Tatars and ], while another study found a link between the ] and Bashkirs, suggesting that the Bashkirs are a mixture of Turkic, Ugric and Indo-European contributions. The homeland of ancient Hungarians is around the ], and the Hungarian affinities with the ] culture is widely accepted among researchers.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Post |first1=Helen |last2=Németh |first2=Endre |last3=Klima |first3=László |last4=Flores |first4=Rodrigo |last5=Fehér |first5=Tibor |last6=Türk |first6=Attila |last7=Székely |first7=Gábor |last8=Sahakyan |first8=Hovhannes |last9=Mondal |first9=Mayukh |last10=Montinaro |first10=Francesco |last11=Karmin |first11=Monika |date=24 May 2019 |title=Y-chromosomal connection between Hungarians and geographically distant populations of the Ural Mountain region and West Siberia |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=7786 |doi=10.1038/s41598-019-44272-6 |pmid=31127140 |pmc=6534673 |bibcode=2019NatSR...9.7786P |issn=2045-2322}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wong |first=Emily H.M. |date=2015 |title=Reconstructing genetic history of Siberian and Northeastern European populations |journal=Genome Research |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1101/gr.202945.115 |pmid=27965293 |pmc=5204334}}</ref> A full genome study found that the Bashkirs display, next to their high European ancestry, also affinity to both Uralic-speaking populations of Northern Asia, as well as Inner Asian Turkic groups, "pointing to a mismatch of their cultural background and genetic ancestry and an intricacy of the historic interface between Turkic and Uralic populations''".<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite journal |last1=Triska |first1=Petr |last2=Chekanov |first2=Nikolay |last3=Stepanov |first3=Vadim |last4=Khusnutdinova |first4=Elza K. |last5=Kumar |first5=Ganesh Prasad Arun |last6=Akhmetova |first6=Vita |last7=Babalyan |first7=Konstantin |last8=Boulygina |first8=Eugenia |last9=Kharkov |first9=Vladimir |last10=Gubina |first10=Marina |last11=Khidiyatova |first11=Irina |last12=Khitrinskaya |first12=Irina |last13=Khrameeva |first13=Ekaterina E. |last14=Khusainova |first14=Rita |last15=Konovalova |first15=Natalia |date=2017-12-28 |title=Between Lake Baikal and the Baltic Sea: genomic history of the gateway to Europe |journal=BMC Genetics |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=110 |doi=10.1186/s12863-017-0578-3 |issn=1471-2156 |pmc=5751809 |pmid=29297395 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

The homeland of the proto-Uralic peoples may have been close to Southern Siberia, among forest cultures in the Altai-Sayan region and may be linked to an ancestry maximized in the early ]. The arrival of the Indo-European ] and Northeast Asian tribes may have caused the dispersal and expansion of proto-Uralic languages along the ].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bjørn |first=Rasmus G. |date=2022 |title=Indo-European loanwords and exchange in Bronze Age Central and East Asia: Six new perspectives on prehistoric exchange in the Eastern Steppe Zone |journal=Evolutionary Human Sciences |language=en |volume=4 |pages=e23 |doi=10.1017/ehs.2022.16 |pmid=37599704 |pmc=10432883 |issn=2513-843X |s2cid=248358873}}</ref>

Neparáczki et al. argues, based on archeogenetic results, that the historical Hungarian Conquerors were mostly a mixture of Central Asian Steppe groups, Slavic, and Germanic tribes, and this composite people evolved between 400 and 1000 AD.<ref>Endre Neparacki, , ELTE TTK Biológia Doktori Iskola, 2017, pp. 61–65</ref><ref name="Genetic structure of the early Hung">{{cite journal |last1=Neparáczki |first1=Endre |last2=Juhász |first2=Zoltán |last3=Pamjav |first3=Horolma |last4=Fehér |first4=Tibor |last5=Csányi |first5=Bernadett |last6=Zink |first6=Albert |last7=Maixner |first7=Frank |last8=Pálfi |first8=György |last9=Molnár |first9=Erika |last10=Pap |first10=Ildikó |last11=Kustár |first11=Ágnes |date=February 2017 |title=Genetic structure of the early Hungarian conquerors inferred from mtDNA haplotypes and Y-chromosome haplogroups in a small cemetery |journal=Molecular Genetics and Genomics |volume=292 |issue=1 |pages=201–214 |doi=10.1007/s00438-016-1267-z |pmid=27803981 |last13=Raskó |first13=István |last14=Török |first14=Tibor |first12=László |last12=Révész |s2cid=4099313}}</ref> According to Neparáczki: "From all recent and archaic populations tested the ] show the smallest genetic distance to the entire Conqueror population" and "a direct genetic relation of the Conquerors to ]-] ancestors of these groups is very feasible."<ref name="Neparaczki">{{cite journal |last1=Neparáczki |first1=Endre |last2=Maróti |first2=Zoltán |last3=Kalmár |first3=Tibor| last4=Kocsy |first4=Klaudia |last5=Maár |first5=Kitti |last6=Bihari |first6=Péter |last7=Nagy |first7=István |last8=Fóthi |first8=Erzsébet |last9=Pap |first9=Ildikó |last10=Kustár |first10=Ágnes |last11=Pálfi |first11=György |last12=Raskó |first12=István |last13=Zink |first13=Albert |last14=Török |first14=Tibor |editor-last=Caramelli |editor-first=David |title=Mitogenomic data indicate admixture components of Central-Inner Asian and Srubnaya origin in the conquering Hungarians |journal=PLOS ONE |publisher=Public Library of Science (PLoS) |volume=13 |issue=10 |date=18 October 2018 |issn=1932-6203 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0205920 |page=e0205920| pmid=30335830 |pmc=6193700 |bibcode=2018PLoSO..1305920N |biorxiv=10.1101/250688 |s2cid=90886641 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Genetic data found high affinity between Magyar conquerors, the historical ], and modern day Turkic-speaking peoples in the Volga region, suggesting a possible language shifted from an Uralic (Ugric) to Turkic languages.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wong |first=Emily H.M. |date=2015 |title=Reconstructing genetic history of Siberian and Northeastern European populations |journal=Genome Research |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=1–14 |doi=10.1101/gr.202945.115 |pmc=5204334 |pmid=27965293}}</ref>

] origin or influences on Hungarians and ] have always been a matter of debate among scholars. In ], a legend developed based on medieval chronicles that the Hungarians, and the ] ethnic group in particular, are descended from the Huns. However, mainstream scholarship dismisses a close connection between the Hungarians and Huns.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Engel |first=Pál |title=The realm of St. Stephen: a history of medieval Hungary, 895 - 1526 |date=2001 |publisher=Tauris |isbn=978-1-86064-061-2 |editor-last=Ayton |editor-first=Andrew |series=International library of historical studies |location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=J . SZŰCS: THEORETICAL ELEMENTS IN MASTER SIMON OF KÉZA'S GESTA HUNGARORUM (1282-1285) |date=1999-01-01 |work=Gesta Hungarorum |pages=xxix–cii |publisher=Central European University Press |doi=10.1515/9789633865699-005 |isbn=978-963-386-569-9|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Maenchen-Helfen |first=Otto J. |editor-first1=Max |editor-last1=Knight |date=1973-12-31 |title=The World of the Huns |journal=University of California Press |pages=386 |doi=10.1525/9780520310773 |isbn=9780520310773 }}</ref> A genetic study published in '']'' in November 2019 led by Neparáczki Endre had examined the remains of three males from three separate 5th century Hunnic cemeteries in the ]. They were found to be carrying the paternal haplogroups ], ] and ]. In modern Europe, ] is rare and has its highest frequency among the ]. It is believed that conquering Magyars may have absorbed Avar, Hunnish and Xiongnu influences.<ref>{{harvnb|Keyser et al. |2020|pp=1, 8–9}}. "ur findings confirmed that the Xiongnu had a strongly admixed mitochondrial and Y-chromosome gene pools and revealed a significant western component in the Xiongnu group studied.... e propose Scytho-Siberians as ancestors of the Xiongnu and Huns as their descendants... ast Eurasian R1a subclades R1a1a1b2a-Z94 and R1a1a1b2a2-Z2124 were a common element of the Hun, Avar and Hungarian Conqueror elite and very likely belonged to the branch that was observed in our Xiongnu samples. Moreover, haplogroups Q1a and N1a were also major components of these nomadic groups, reinforcing the view that Huns (and thus Avars and Hungarian invaders) might derive from the Xiongnu as was proposed until the eighteenth century but strongly disputed since... Some Xiongnu paternal and maternal haplotypes could be found in the gene pool of the Huns, the Avars, as well as Mongolian and Hungarian conquerors."</ref>

=== Paternal haplogroups ===
Hungarian males possess a high frequency of haplogroup R1a-Z280 and a low frequency of haplogroup N-Tat, which is uncommon among most Uralic-speaking populations. Historical Magyar conquerors had around ~37.5% ], as well as lower frequency of ] at 6.25% with the remainder being ] and ].<ref name="Fóthi 31"/> An analysis of Bashkir samples from the ] and ] districts of the Republic of ] in the ] region, revealed them to belong to the R1a subclade ], which is shared in significant amounts with the historical Magyars and the royal Hungarian lineage, and representing the closest kin to the Hungarian ], whose ancestry is traced to 4500 years ago, in modern day Northern ].<ref name="Nagy20">{{Citation |last1=Nagy |first1=P.L. |title=Determination of the phylogenetic origins of the Árpád Dynasty based on Y chromosome sequencing of Béla the Third |date=2020 |journal=European Journal of Human Genetics |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=164–172 |doi=10.1038/s41431-020-0683-z |pmc=7809292 |pmid=32636469 |display-authors=etal |last2=Olasz |first2=J. |last3=Neparáczki |first3=E. |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=R-SUR51 Y-DNA Haplogroup |url=https://www.yfull.com/tree/R-SUR51/ |website=YFull}}</ref> In turn, R1a-SUR51's ancestral subclades R1a-Y2632 are found among the ] population of the ], date: 427-422 BC.<ref>Sample DA129 ERS2374372 Nomad_IA Tian Shan; R1a-Y2632 </ref> In the case of the Southern Mansi males, the most frequent haplogroups were N1b-P43 (33%), N1c-L1034 (28%) and R1a-Z280 (19%). The Konda Mansi population shared common haplotypes within haplogroups R1a-Z280 or N-M46 with Hungarian speakers, which may suggest that the Hungarians were in contact with the Mansi people during their migration to the Carpathian Basin.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Pamjav |first1=H |last2=Dudás |first2=E |last3=Krizsán |first3=K |last4=Galambos |first4=A |date=December 2019 |title=A Y-chromosomal study of mansi population from konda River Basin in Ural |journal=Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=602–603 |doi=10.1016/j.fsigss.2019.10.106 |s2cid=208581616 |issn=1875-1768|doi-access=free }}</ref>

According to a study by Pamjav, the Hungarian area of ] which is suggested to be a population isolate, found R1a-M458 (20.4%), I2a1-P37 (19%), R1a-Z280 (14.3%), and E1b-M78 (10.2%). Various R1b-M343 subgroups accounted for 15% of the Bodrogköz population. Haplogroup N1c-Tat covered 6.2% of the lineages, but most of it belonged to the N1c-VL29 subgroup, which is more frequent among ] speaking than Finno-Ugric speaking peoples. Other haplogroups had frequencies of less than 5%.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Pamjav |first1=Horolma |last2=Fóthi |first2=Á. |last3=Fehér |first3=T. |last4=Fóthi |first4=Erzsébet |title=A study of the Bodrogköz population in north-eastern Hungary by Y chromosomal haplotypes and haplogroups |journal=Molecular Genetics and Genomics |date=1 August 2017 |volume=292 |issue=4 |pages=883–894 |doi=10.1007/s00438-017-1319-z |pmid=28409264 |s2cid=10107799 }}</ref> Among 100 Hungarian men, 90 of whom from the ], (including ] descendants from ] region) the following haplogroups and frequencies are obtained: 30% R1a, 15% R1b, 13% I2a1, 13% J2, 9% E1b1b1a, 8% I1, 3% G2, 3% J1, 3% I*, 1% E*, 1% F*, 1% K*. The 97 ] belong to the following haplogroups: 20% R1b, 19% R1a, 17% I1, 11% J2, 10% J1, 8% E1b1b1a, 5% I2a1, 5% G2, 3% P*, 1% E*, 1% N.<ref name="Csányi et al 2008">{{cite journal |last1=Csányi |first1=B. |last2=Bogácsi-Szabó |first2=E. |last3=Tömöry |first3=Gy. |last4=Czibula |first4=Á. |last5=Priskin |first5=K. |last6=Csõsz |first6=A. |last7=Mende |first7=B. |last8=Langó |first8=P. |last9=Csete |first9=K. |last10=Zsolnai |first10=A. |last11=Conant |first11=E. K. |date=July 2008 |title=Y-Chromosome Analysis of Ancient Hungarian and Two Modern Hungarian-Speaking Populations from the Carpathian Basin |journal=Annals of Human Genetics |volume=72 |issue=4 |pages=519–534 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-1809.2008.00440.x |pmid=18373723 |last13=Raskó |first13=I. |first12=C. S. |last12=Downes|s2cid=13217908}}</ref> It can be inferred that Szekelys have more significant German admixture. A study sampling 45 ] from Budapest and northern Hungary, found 60% R1a, 13% R1b, 11% I, 9% E, 2% G, 2% J2.<ref>Semino 2000 et al{{full citation needed|date=January 2021}}</ref> A study estimating possible Inner Asian admixture among nearly 500 Hungarians based on paternal lineages only, estimated it at 5.1% in Hungary, at 7.4 in ] and at 6.3% at ].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bíró |first1=András |last2=Fehér |first2=Tibor |last3=Bárány |first3=Gusztáv |last4=Pamjav |first4=Horolma |title=Testing Central and Inner Asian admixture among contemporary Hungarians |journal=Forensic Science International: Genetics |date=March 2015 |volume=15 |pages=121–126 |pmid=25468443 |doi=10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.11.007}}</ref>

=== Autosomal DNA ===
Modern Hungarians show relative close affinity to surrounding populations, but harbour a small "Siberian" component associated with Khanty/Mansi, as well as the Nganasan people, and argued to have arrived with the historical Magyars. Modern Hungarians formed from several historical population groupings, including the historical Magyars, assimilated Slavic and Germanic groups, as well as Central Asian Steppe tribes (presumably Turkic and Iranian tribes).<ref name="Fóthi 31"/><ref name="Maróti 2022.01.19.476915">{{Cite bioRxiv |last1=Maróti |first1=Zoltán |last2=Neparáczki |first2=Endre |last3=Schütz |first3=Oszkár |last4=Maár |first4=Kitti |last5=Varga |first5=Gergely I. B. |last6=Kovács |first6=Bence |last7=Kalmár |first7=Tibor |last8=Nyerki |first8=Emil |last9=Nagy |first9=István |last10=Latinovics |first10=Dóra |last11=Tihanyi |first11=Balázs |date=20 January 2022 |title=Whole genome analysis sheds light on the genetic origin of Huns, Avars and conquering Hungarians |language=en |biorxiv=10.1101/2022.01.19.476915}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Fan |last2=Ning |first2=Chao |last3=Scott |first3=Ashley |last4=Fu |first4=Qiaomei |last5=Bjørn |first5=Rasmus |last6=Li |first6=Wenying |last7=Wei |first7=Dong |last8=Wang |first8=Wenjun |last9=Fan |first9=Linyuan |last10=Abuduresule |first10=Idilisi |last11=Hu |first11=Xingjun |last12=Ruan |first12=Qiurong |last13=Niyazi |first13=Alipujiang |last14=Dong |first14=Guanghui |last15=Cao |first15=Peng |date=2021 |title=The genomic origins of the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies |journal=Nature |volume=599 |issue=7884 |pages=256–261 |doi=10.1038/s41586-021-04052-7 |issn=0028-0836 |pmc=8580821 |pmid=34707286 |bibcode=2021Natur.599..256Z}}</ref><ref name="Origin of Ugrians 2023"/><ref name="ReferenceB"/>

The historical Magyar genome corresponds largely with the modern ], and can be modeled as ~50% Khanty/Mansi-like, ~35% ], and ~15% ]. The admixture event is suggested to have taken place in the Southern Ural region at 643–431 BCE. Modern Hungarians were found to be admixed descendants of the historical Magyar conquerors with local Europeans, as 31 Hungarian samples could be modelled as two-way admixtures of "Conq_Asia_Core" and "EU_Core" in varying degrees. The historical Magyar component among modern Hungarians is estimated at an average frequency of 13%, which can be explained by the relative smaller population size of Magyar conquerors compared to local European groups.<ref name="Fóthi 31" /><ref name="Maróti 2022.01.19.476915" />

=== Other influences ===

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Besides the various peoples mentioned above, the Magyars were later influenced by other populations in the Carpathian Basin. Among these are the ], ], ], ], ] (more specifically ] but also ] or other ethnic German minorities in the former Kingdom of Hungary or in ] such as the ], and ] (]).

], who occupied the central part of Hungary from {{circa}} 1526 until {{circa|lk=no}} 1699, inevitably exerted an influence, as did the various nations (Germans/], Slovaks, Serbs, Croats, and others) that resettled the depopulated central and southern territories of the kingdom (roughly present-day South Hungary, ] in Serbia and ] in Romania) after their departure. Similar to other European countries, ], and ] ethnic minorities have been living in Hungary since the Middle Ages. Jews have been living in Hungary since the Roman era, as the archeological evidence of Jewish gravestones dating from this period demonstrates.

==Diaspora==
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== Maps ==
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File:Ethnic map of 11th century.jpg|Kniezsa's (1938) view on the ethnic map of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 11th century, based on ]. Kniezsa's view has been criticized by many scholars, because of its non-compliance with later archaeological and onomastics research, but his map is still regularly cited in modern reliable sources. One of the most prominent critics of this map was ].<ref>Ethnic Continuity in the Carpatho-Danubian Area, Elemér Illyés</ref>
File:Kingdom of Hungary - Ethnic Map - 1495.jpg|Ethnic map of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1495 by the ] (Hungarians are depicted in orange)
File:Redmap.jpg|The "Red Map",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dailynewshungary.com/browse-hungarys-detailed-ethnographical-map-made-treaty-trianon-online/|date=9 May 2017|website=dailynewshungary.com|title=Browse Hungary's detailed ethnographic map made for the Treaty of Trianon online}}</ref> based on the 1910 census. Regions with population density below {{cvt|20|PD/km2|PD/sqmi|disp=preunit|persons}}<ref>Spatiul istoric si etnic romanesc, Editura Militara, Bucuresti, 1992</ref> are left blank and the corresponding population is represented in the nearest region with population density above that limit. Red colour to mark Hungarians and light purple colour to mark Romanians.
File:Ethnic Map of Hungary 1910 with Counties.png|Map of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1910, based on the Hungarian census of the same year. Hungarians are marked in dark green.
File:MagyarsOutsideHungary.png|Ethnic map depicting the contemporary ethnic distribution of Hungarians across the ] (also known and referred to as the ''Carpathian Basin''). Legend: {{legend|green|Hungary proper where Hungarians are the ethnic majority people}}{{legend|#90EE90|Regions outside Hungary where there are notable ethnic Hungarian minorities}}
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== Culture ==
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The culture of Hungary shows distinctive elements, incorporating local European elements and minor Central Asian/Steppe derived traditions, such as ] and ].

==Traditional costumes (18th and 19th century)==
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==Folklore and communities==
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File:Néptánccoport saját kép.jpg|Hungarians dressed in folk costumes in ], ]
File:Voivodina_Hungarians_women's_national_costume.png|] women's national costume
File:Pünkösdi pompa Körösfőn.jpg|] folk costume in ], ]
File:Hortobagy-ziehbrunnen.jpg|The Hungarian ]
File:Turul_buda_castle1.jpg|The ], the mythical bird of Hungary
File:2013.09.09 Balaton (3).JPG|Welcome sign in Latin and in ] for the town of ], Hungary
File:National costume and dance Csárdás.jpg|] folk dance in ] (Székelykeve), Vojvodina, ]
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==References==
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* Korai Magyar Történeti Lexicon (9–14. század) (Encyclopedia of the Early Hungarian History (9th–14th Centuries)) Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó; 753. {{ISBN|963-05-6722-9}}.
* ] (], ]) – Zsolt Bottlik (PhD, ]) – Patrik Tátrai: Etnikai térfolyamatok a Kárpát-medence határon túli régióiban + CD (for detailed data), Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (]) – Földrajtudományi Kutatóintézet (Academy of Geographical Studies); Budapest; 2006.; {{ISBN|963-9545-10-4}}
*{{cite book |last=Lendvai |first=Paul |translator-last=Major |translator-first=Ann |title=The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat |date=2003 |location=Princeton, NJ |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9781400851522 |url=https://archive.org/details/hungarians00paul }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Neparáczki |first1=Endre |last2=Maróti |first2=Zoltán |display-authors=1 |date=November 12, 2019 |title=Y-chromosome haplogroups from Hun, Avar and conquering Hungarian period nomadic people of the Carpathian Basin |journal=] |publisher=] |volume=9 |issue=16569 |page= 16569|doi=10.1038/s41598-019-53105-5 |pmc=6851379 |pmid=31719606 |bibcode=2019NatSR...916569N |ref={{harvid|Neparáczki et al.|2019}}}}
*{{cite book |first=Jenő |last=Szűcs |author-link=Jenő Szűcs |chapter=Theoretical Elements in Master Simon of Kéza's ''Gesta Hungarorum'' (1282–1285) |pages=xxix–cii |publisher=Central European University Press |year=1999 |editor2=Frank Schaer |editor1=László Veszprémy |title=Simon of Kéza: Deeds of the Hungarians}}
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Ethnic group native to Central Europe For the film, see Hungarians (film).

Ethnic group
Hungarians
Magyarok
Total population
c. 14.5 million
Regions with significant populations
Hungary Hungary 9,632,744 Carpathian Basin 11,425,000 (2022)
Other countries
Europe
 Romania1,002,151
 Slovakia456,154
 Germany296,000
 Serbia184.442
 France200,000–250,000
 United Kingdom200,000–220,000
 Ukraine156,566
 Austria73,411
 Russia55,500
  Switzerland27,000
 Netherlands26,172
 Czech Republic20,000
 Belgium15,000
 Croatia14,048
 Sweden13,000
 Slovenia10,500
 Spain10,000
 Ireland9,000
 Norway8,316
 Denmark6,000
 Bosnia and Herzegovina4,000
 Finland3,000
 Greece2,000
 Luxembourg2,000
 Poland1,728
 Portugal1,230
North America
 United States1,437,694
 Canada348,085
 Mexico3,500
South America
 Brazil80,000
 Chile50,000
 Argentina40,000–50,000
 Venezuela4,000
 Uruguay3,000
Rest of the world
 Israel200,000
 Australia69,167
 New Zealand7,000
 Turkey6,800
 South Africa4,000
 Jordan1,000
Languages
Hungarian
Religion
Majority: Christianity (mostly Roman Catholicism), also Protestantism (Calvinism)
Minority: Protestantism (Unitarianism and Lutheranism), Eastern Orthodoxy, Greek Catholicism, Judaism, irreligious
PersonMagyar
PeopleMagyarok
LanguageMagyar nyelv,
Magyar jelnyelv
CountryMagyarország

Hungarians, also known as Magyars (/ˈmæɡjɑːrz/ MAG-yarz; Hungarian: magyarok [ˈmɒɟɒrok]), are a Central European nation and an ethnic group native to Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország) and other lands once belonging to the Kingdom of Hungary who share a common culture, history, ancestry, and language. The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic language family, alongside, most notably, Finnish and Estonian.

There are an estimated 14.5 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary. About 2 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. In addition, significant groups of people with Hungarian ancestry live in various other parts of the world, most of them in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Chile, Brazil, Australia, and Argentina, and therefore constitute the Hungarian diaspora (Hungarian: magyar diaszpóra).

Furthermore, Hungarians can be divided into several subgroups according to local linguistic and cultural characteristics; subgroups with distinct identities include the Székelys (in eastern Transylvania as well as a few in Suceava County, Bukovina), the Csángós (in Western Moldavia), the Palóc, and the Matyó.

Name

Further information: Name of Hungary

The Hungarians' own ethnonym to denote themselves in the Early Middle Ages is uncertain. The exonym "Hungarian" is thought to be derived from Oghur-Turkic On-Ogur (literally "Ten Arrows" or "Ten Tribes"). Another possible explanation comes from the Russian word "Yugra" (Югра). It may refer to the Hungarians during a time when they dwelt east of the southern Ural Mountains in Western Siberia before their conquest of the Carpathian Basin.

Prior to the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin when the Hungarian conquerors lived on the steppes of Eastern Europe east of the Carpathian Mountains, written sources called the Hungarians: "Ungri" by Georgius Monachus in 837, "Ungri" by Annales Bertiniani in 862, and "Ungari" by the Annales ex Annalibus Iuvavensibus in 881. The Magyars/Hungarians probably belonged to the Onogur tribal alliance, and it is possible that they became its ethnic majority. In the Early Middle Ages, the Hungarians had many names, including "Węgrzy" (Polish), "Ungherese" (Italian), "Ungar" (German), and "Hungarus".

In the Hungarian language, the Hungarian people name themselves as "Magyar". "Magyar" possibly derived from the name of the most prominent Hungarian tribe, the "Megyer". The tribal name "Megyer" became "Magyar" in reference to the Hungarian people as a whole.

The Greek cognate of "Tourkia" (Greek: Τουρκία) was used by the scholar and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus in his De Administrando Imperio of c. AD 950, though in his use, "Turks" always referred to Magyars. This was a misnomer, as while the Magyars do have some Turkic genetic and cultural influence, including their historical social structure being of Turkic origin, they still are not widely considered as part of the Turkic people.

The obscure name kerel or keral, found in the 13th-century work The Secret History of the Mongols, possibly referred to Hungarians and derived from the Hungarian title király 'king'.

The historical Latin phrase "Natio Hungarica" ("Hungarian nation") had a wider and political meaning because it once referred to all nobles of the Kingdom of Hungary, regardless of their ethnicity or mother tongue.

History

Origin

The origin of Hungarians, the place and time of their ethnogenesis, has been a matter of debate. Due to the classification of the Hungarian language in the Ugric family, they are commonly considered an Ugric people that originated from the Ural Mountains, Western Siberia or the Middle Volga region. Fóthi et al. 2022 suggests that the Hungarian conquerors originated from three distinct regions on the Eurasian steppe: the Lake Baikal-Altai Mountains, spanning northwestern Mongolia and southern Siberia, the Southern Urals-Western Siberia and the Black Sea-Northern Caucasus. The relatedness of Hungarians with the Ugric peoples is almost exclusively founded on linguistic data and has been called into question. It is not backed with testimonies in historical sources or the results of natural science research.

"Hungarian pre-history", i.e. the history of the "ancient Hungarians" before their arrival in the Carpathian basin at the end of the 9th century, is thus a "tenuous construct", based on linguistics, analogies in folklore, archaeology and subsequent written evidence. In the 21st century, historians have argued that "Hungarians" did not exist as a discrete ethnic group or people for centuries before their settlement in the Carpathian basin. Instead, the formation of the people with its distinct identity was a process. According to this view, Hungarians as a people emerged by the 9th century, subsequently incorporating other, ethnically and linguistically divergent, peoples.

Pre-4th century AD

Map of the presumptive Hungarian prehistory
Main article: Hungarian prehistory

During the 4th millennium BC, the Uralic-speaking peoples who were living in the central and southern regions of the Urals split up. Some dispersed towards the west and northwest and came into contact with Turkic and Iranian speakers who were spreading northwards. From at least 2000 BC onwards, the Ugric-speakers became distinguished from the rest of the Uralic community, of which the ancestors of the Magyars, being located farther south, were the most numerous. Judging by evidence from burial mounds and settlement sites, they interacted with the Indo-Iranian Andronovo culture and Baikal-Altai Asian cultures.

4th century to c. 830

In the 4th and 5th centuries AD, the Hungarians were an "thnically mixed people" who moved to the west of the Ural Mountains, to the area between the southern Ural Mountains and the Volga River, known as Bashkiria (Bashkortostan) and Perm Krai. In the early 8th century, some of the Hungarians moved to the Don River, to an area between the Volga, Don and the Seversky Donets rivers. Meanwhile, the descendants of those Hungarians who stayed in Bashkiria remained there as late as 1241.

The Hungarians around the Don River were subordinates of the Khazar Khaganate. Their neighbours were the archaeological Saltov culture, i.e. Bulgars (Proto-Bulgarians, Onogurs) and the Alans, from whom they learned gardening, elements of cattle breeding and of agriculture. Tradition holds that the Hungarians were organized in a confederacy of seven tribes: Jenő, Kér, Keszi, Kürt-Gyarmat, Megyer, Nyék, and Tarján.

c. 830 to c. 895

Around 830, a rebellion broke out in the Khazar khaganate. As a result, three Kabar tribes of the Khazars joined the Hungarians and moved to what the Hungarians call the Etelköz, the territory between the Carpathians and the Dnieper River. 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 (already referred to as the Ungri) along with their allies, the Kabars, started a series of looting raids from the Etelköz into the Carpathian Basin, mostly against the Eastern Frankish Empire (Germany) and Great Moravia, but also against the Balaton principality and Bulgaria.

Entering the Carpathian Basin (c. 862–895)

Main articles: History of Hungary before the Hungarian conquest and Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin
Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)

The Hungarians arrived in the Carpathian Basin, a geographically unified but politically divided land, after acquiring thorough local knowledge of the area from the 860s onwards.

After the end of the Avar Kaganate (c. 822), the Eastern Franks asserted their influence in Transdanubia, the Bulgarians to a small extent in the Southern Transylvania and the interior regions housed the surviving Avar population in their stateless state. The downfall of the Avar Khaganate at the beginning of the 9th century did not mean the extinction of the Avar population, contemporary written sources report surviving Avar groups. According to the archaeological evidence, the Avar population survived the time of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin.

In 862, Prince Rastislav of Moravia rebelled against the Franks, and after hiring Hungarian troops, won his independence; this was the first time that Hungarians expeditionary troops entered the Carpathian Basin. In 862, Archbishop Hincmar of Reims records the campaign of unknown enemies called "Ungri", giving the first mention of the Hungarians in Western Europe. In 881, the Hungarian forces fought together with the Kabars in the Vienna Basin. According to historian György Szabados and archeologist Miklós Béla Szőke, a group of Hungarians were already living in the Carpathian Basin at that time, so they could quickly intervene in the events of the Carolingian Empire. The number of recorded battles increased from the end of the 9th century. In the late Avar period, a part of Hungarians was already present in the Carpathian Basin in the 9th century, this has been supported by genetic and archaeological research, because there are graves in which Avar descendants are buried in Hungarian clothes. An important segment of this Avar era Hungarians is that the Hungarian county system of King Saint Stephen I may be largely based on the power centers formed during the Avar period. According to some genetic studies, there is a genetic continuity from the Bronze Age, a continuous migration of the Steppe folks from east to the Carpathian Basin.

The foundation of the Hungarian state is connected to the Hungarian conquerors, who arrived from the Pontic steppes as a confederation of seven tribes. The Hungarians arrived in the frame of a strong centralized steppe-empire under the leadership of Grand Prince Álmos and his son Árpád, they became founders of the Árpád dynasty, the Hungarian ruling dynasty and the Hungarian state. The Árpád dynasty claimed to be a direct descendant of the great Hun leader Attila. Medieval Hungarian chronicles from the Hungarian royal court like the Gesta Hungarorum, Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum, Chronicon Pictum, Buda Chronicle, Chronica Hungarorum claimed that the Árpád dynasty and the Aba clan are the descendants of Attila.

Árpád, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, says in the Gesta Hungarorum:

The land stretching between the Danube and the Tisza used to belong to my forefather, the mighty Attila.

— Anonymus: Gesta Hungarorum

The Hungarians took possession of the Carpathian Basin in a pre-planned manner, with a long move-in between 862 and 895. This is confirmed by the archaeological findings, in the 10th-century Hungarian cemeteries, the graves of women, children and elderly people are located next to the warriors, they were buried according to the same traditions, wore the same style of ornaments, and belonged to the same anthropological group. The Hungarian military events of the following years prove that the Hungarian population that settled in the Carpathian Basin was not a weakened population without a significant military power. Other theories assert that the move of the Hungarians was forced or at least hastened by the joint attacks of Pechenegs and Bulgarians. According to eleventh-century tradition, the road taken by the Hungarians under Prince Álmos took them first to Transylvania in 895. This is supported by an eleventh-century Russian tradition that the Hungarians moved to the Carpathian Basin by way of Kiev. Prince Álmos, the sacred leader of the Hungarian Great Principality died before he could reach Pannonia, he was sacrificed in Transylvania.

In 895/896, under the leadership of Árpád, some Hungarians crossed the Carpathians and entered the Carpathian Basin. The tribe called Megyer was the leading tribe of the Hungarian alliance that conquered the centre of the basin. At the same time (c. 895), due to their involvement in the 894–896 Bulgaro-Byzantine war, Hungarians in Etelköz were attacked by Bulgaria and then by their old enemies the Pechenegs. The Bulgarians won the decisive battle of Southern Buh. It is uncertain whether or not those conflicts contributed to the Hungarian departure from Etelköz.

From the upper Tisza region of the Carpathian Basin, the Hungarians intensified their campaigns across continental Europe. In 900, they moved from the upper Tisza river to Transdanubia, which later became the core of the arising Hungarian state. By 902, the borders were pushed to the South-Moravian Carpathians and the Principality of Moravia collapsed. At the time of the Hungarian migration, the land was inhabited only by a sparse population of Slavs, numbering about 200,000, who were either assimilated or enslaved by the Hungarians.

Archaeological findings (e.g. in the Polish city of Przemyśl) suggest that many Hungarians remained to the north of the Carpathians after 895/896. There is also a consistent Hungarian population in Transylvania, the Székelys, who comprise 40% of the Hungarians in Romania. The Székely people's origin, and in particular the time of their settlement in Transylvania, is a matter of historical controversy.

After 900

Main article: Hungarian invasions of Europe
Hungarian raids in the 9–10th century

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 Basel, Alsace, Burgundy, Saxony, and Provence. Hungarian 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.

The Pope approved Hungarian settlement in the area when their leaders converted to Christianity, and Stephen I (Szent István, or Saint Stephen) was crowned King of Hungary in 1001. The century between the arrival of the Hungarians from the eastern European plains and the consolidation of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1001 was dominated by pillaging campaigns across Europe, from Dania (Denmark) to the Iberian Peninsula (contemporary Spain and Portugal). After the acceptance of the nation into Christian Europe under Stephen I, Hungary served as a bulwark against further invasions from the east and south, especially by the Turks.

Population growth of Hungarians (900–1980)

At this time, the Hungarian nation numbered around 400,000 people.

Early modern period

The first accurate measurements of the population of the Kingdom of Hungary including ethnic composition were carried out in 1850–51. There is a debate among Hungarian and non-Hungarian (especially Slovak and Romanian) historians about the possible changes in the ethnic structure of the region throughout history. The proportion of Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin was at an almost constant 80% during the Middle Ages. The Hungarian population began to decrease only at the time of the Ottoman conquest, reaching as low as around 39% by the end of the 18th century.

The decline of the Hungarians was due to the constant wars, Ottoman raids, famines, and plagues during the 150 years of Ottoman rule. The main zones of war were the territories inhabited by the Hungarians, so the death toll depleted them at a much higher rate than among other nationalities. In the 18th century, their proportion declined further because of the influx of new settlers from Europe, especially Slovaks, Serbs and Germans. In 1715 (after the Ottoman occupation), the Southern Great Plain was nearly uninhabited but now has 1.3 million inhabitants, nearly all of them Hungarians. As a consequence, having also the Habsburg colonization policies, the country underwent a great change in ethnic composition as its population more than tripled to 8 million between 1720 and 1787, while only 39% of its people were Hungarians, who lived primarily in the centre of the country.

Traditional Hungarian costumes from Jassic- Cuman area, 1822
Traditional clothing in Hungary, around late 18th century and early 19th century

19th century to present

In the 19th century, the proportion of Hungarians in the Kingdom of Hungary rose gradually, reaching over 50% by 1900 due to higher natural growth and Magyarization. Between 1787 and 1910 the number of ethnic Hungarians rose from 2.3 million to 10.2 million, accompanied by the resettlement of the Great Hungarian Plain and Délvidék by mainly Roman Catholic Hungarian settlers from the northern and western counties of the Kingdom of Hungary. Spontaneous assimilation was an important factor, especially among the German and Jewish minorities and the citizens of the bigger towns. On the other hand, about 1.5 million people (about two-thirds non-Hungarian) left the Kingdom of Hungary between 1890–1910 to escape from poverty.

Magyars (Hungarians) in Hungary, 1890 census
The Treaty of Trianon: Kingdom of Hungary lost 72% of its land and 3.3 million people of Hungarian ethnicity.

The years 1918 to 1920 were a turning point in the Hungarians' history. By the Treaty of Trianon, the Kingdom had been cut into several parts, leaving only a quarter of its original size. One-third of the Hungarians became minorities in the neighbouring countries. During the remainder of the 20th century, the Hungarians population of Hungary grew from 7.1 million (1920) to around 10.4 million (1980), despite losses during the Second World War and the wave of emigration after the attempted revolution in 1956.

The number of Hungarians in the neighbouring countries tended to remain the same or slightly decreased, mostly due to assimilation (sometimes forced; see Slovakization and Romanianization) and to emigration to Hungary (in the 1990s, especially from Transylvania and Vojvodina). After the "baby boom" of the 1950s (Ratkó era), a serious demographic crisis began to develop in Hungary and its neighbours. The Hungarian population reached its maximum in 1980, then began to decline.

For historical reasons (see Treaty of Trianon), significant Hungarian minority populations can be found in the surrounding countries, most of them in Romania (in Transylvania), Slovakia, and Serbia (in Vojvodina). Sizable minorities live also in Ukraine (in Transcarpathia), Croatia (primarily Slavonia), and Austria (in Burgenland). Slovenia is also host to a number of ethnic Hungarians, and Hungarian language has an official status in parts of the Prekmurje region. Today more than two million ethnic Hungarians live in nearby countries.

There was a referendum in Hungary in December 2004 on whether to grant Hungarian citizenship to Hungarians living outside Hungary's borders (i.e. without requiring a permanent residence in Hungary). The referendum failed due to insufficient voter turnout. On 26 May 2010, Hungary's Parliament passed a bill granting dual citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living outside of Hungary. Some neighboring countries with sizable Hungarian minorities expressed concerns over the legislation.

Ethnic affiliations and genetic origins

See also: Genetic history of Europe
The place of origin for the regional groups of Hungarians in the conquest period, according to Kinga Éry.
Population structure of Uralic-speaking populations inferred from ADMIXTURE analysis on autosomal SNPs in Eurasian context. Ugric-ancestry is represented by the Khanty and Mansi people.

Modern Hungarians stand out as linguistically isolated in Europe, despite their genetic similarity to the surrounding populations. The population of the Carpathian Basin has the common European gene-pool which formed in the Bronze Age through the admixture of three sources: Western Hunter-Gatherers, who were the first Homo sapiens appearing in Paleolithic Europe, Neolithic farmers originating from Anatolia, and Yamnaya steppe migrants that arrived in the late Neolithic to early Bronze Age. This common European gene pool in the Carpathian Basin, has been overlaid by migration waves originating from the east since the Iron Age. According to genetic studies, the Carpathian Basin was continuously inhabited from at least the Bronze Age. There is a genetic continuity from the Bronze Age, a continuous migration of the Steppe folks from east to the Carpathian Basin. The foundational population of the Carpathian Basin carrying the common European gene pool remained in a significant majority throughout the migratory periods in the Carpathian Basin. During the 9th century BC, smaller groups of pre-Scythians (Cimmerians) of the Mezőcsát culture appeared. The classic Scythian culture spread across the Great Hungarian Plain between the 7th–6th century BC, their genetic data represent the genetic profile of the local European population. The Sarmatians arrived in multiple waves from 50 BC, leaving a significant archaeological heritage behind, the examined Sarmatian individuals genetically also belong to the genetic legacy of the local European population. Various groups of Asian origin settled in the Carpathian Basin, such as Huns, Avars, Hungarian conquerors, Pechenegs, Jazyg people, and Cumans. The military leadership of the European Huns descended from the Asian Huns (Xiongnus), while the majority of them consisted of subjugated Germanic and Sarmatian populations. The most significant influx of genes from Asia occurred during the Avar period, arriving in multiple waves. The ruling elite of the Avars originated from the Rouran Khaganate in Mongolia, but a significant portion of the masses they brought in consisted of mixed-origin populations that had emerged in the Pontic-Caspian steppe during the Hunnic era. Foundation of the Hungarian state is connected to the Hungarian conquerors, who arrived from the Pontic steppes as a confederation of seven tribes. According to genetic study, the proto-Ugric groups were part of the Scytho-Siberian societies in the late Bronze Age to early Iron Age steppe-forest zone in the northern Kazakhstan region, near of the Mezhovskaya culture territory. The ancestors of the Hungarian conquerors lived in the steppe zone during the Bronze Age together with the Mansis. During the Iron Age, the Mansis migrated northward, while the ancestor of Hungarian conquerors remained at the steppe-forest zone and admixed with the Sarmatians. Later the ancestors of the Hungarian conquerors admixed with the Huns, this admixture happened before the arrival of the Huns to the Volga region in 370. The Huns integrated local tribes east of the Urals, among them Sarmatians and the ancestors of the Hungarian conquerors. The Hungarians arrived in the frame of a strong centralized steppe-empire under the leadership of Grand Prince Álmos and his son Árpád, they became founders of the Árpád dynasty, the Hungarian ruling dynasty and the Hungarian state. The Árpád dynasty claimed to be a direct descendant of the great Hun leader Attila. The elite of the conquering Hungarians established the Hungarian state, genetic studies revealed, the conqueror elite in both sexes has approximately 30% Eastern Eurasian components, while the commoner population appears to have carried the overlaid local European gene pool from previous eastern immigrations. In medieval Hungary, a legend developed based on foreign and Hungarian medieval chronicles that the Hungarians, and the Székely ethnic group in particular, are descended from the Huns. The basic premise of the Hungarian medieval chronicle tradition was that the Huns, i.e. the Hungarians coming out twice from Scythia, the guiding principle was the Hun-Hungarian continuity. The 20th century mainstream scholarship dismisses a close connection between the Hungarians and Huns. However, the archaeogenetics studies revealed the Hun heritage of the Hungarian conquerors, it was a significant Hun-Hungarian mixing around 300 AD, and the remaining Huns were integrated into the conquering Hungarians. The genomic analyses of the Hungarian royal Árpád family members are in line with the reported conquering Hungarian-Hun origin of the dynasty in harmony with their Y-chromosomal phylogenetic connections. According to the growing archaeological evidence that the Avar population lived through the period of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin. The Carpathian Basin was demonstrably not empty when the Hungarian conquerors led by Árpád arrived. The conquering Hungarians mixed to varying degrees on individual level with the Avar population living in the Carpathian Basin, but they had Avar genetic heritage as well. According to Endre Neparáczki, it is no longer possible to narrow down the Hungarian population of the Carpathian Basin only of people of Árpád. Following the devastations caused by the Mongol and Turkish invasions, settlers from other parts of Europe played a significant role in establishing the modern genetic makeup of the Carpathian Basin.

The Hungarian language belongs to the Uralic language family. While early Ugric-speakers can be associated with an ancestry component maximized in modern-day Khanty/Mansi and historical Southern Siberian groups such as the Pazyryk culture people, the earliest Uralic-speakers can be associated with an Ancient Northern East Asian lineage maximized among modern Nganasans and a Bronze Age specimen from Krasnoyarsk in southern Siberia (Krasnoyarsk_Krai_BA; kra001). This type of ancestry later dispersed along the Seima-Turbino route westwards. They may also stood in contact with other Ancient Northeast Asians (partially linked to the ethnogenesis of Turkic and Mongolic peoples) and Western Steppe Herders (Indo-European). Modern Hungarians are however genetically rather distant from their closest linguistic relatives (Mansi and Khanty), and more similar to the neighbouring non-Uralic neighbors. Modern Hungarians share a small but significant "Inner Asian/Siberian" component with other Uralic-speaking populations. The historical Hungarian conqueror YDNA variation had a higher affinity with modern day Bashkirs and Volga Tatars as well as to two specimens of the Pazyryk culture, while their mtDNA has strong links to the populations of the Baraba region, Inner Asia, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe and Central Asia. Modern Hungarians also display genetic affinity with historical Sintashta samples.

Archeological mtDNA haplogroups show a similarity between Hungarians and Turkic-speaking Tatars and Bashkirs, while another study found a link between the Mansi and Bashkirs, suggesting that the Bashkirs are a mixture of Turkic, Ugric and Indo-European contributions. The homeland of ancient Hungarians is around the Ural Mountains, and the Hungarian affinities with the Karayakupovo culture is widely accepted among researchers. A full genome study found that the Bashkirs display, next to their high European ancestry, also affinity to both Uralic-speaking populations of Northern Asia, as well as Inner Asian Turkic groups, "pointing to a mismatch of their cultural background and genetic ancestry and an intricacy of the historic interface between Turkic and Uralic populations".

The homeland of the proto-Uralic peoples may have been close to Southern Siberia, among forest cultures in the Altai-Sayan region and may be linked to an ancestry maximized in the early Tarim mummies. The arrival of the Indo-European Afanasievo culture and Northeast Asian tribes may have caused the dispersal and expansion of proto-Uralic languages along the Seima-Turbino cultural area.

Neparáczki et al. argues, based on archeogenetic results, that the historical Hungarian Conquerors were mostly a mixture of Central Asian Steppe groups, Slavic, and Germanic tribes, and this composite people evolved between 400 and 1000 AD. According to Neparáczki: "From all recent and archaic populations tested the Volga Tatars show the smallest genetic distance to the entire Conqueror population" and "a direct genetic relation of the Conquerors to Onogur-Bulgar ancestors of these groups is very feasible." Genetic data found high affinity between Magyar conquerors, the historical Bulgars, and modern day Turkic-speaking peoples in the Volga region, suggesting a possible language shifted from an Uralic (Ugric) to Turkic languages.

Hunnish origin or influences on Hungarians and Székelys have always been a matter of debate among scholars. In Hungary, a legend developed based on medieval chronicles that the Hungarians, and the Székely ethnic group in particular, are descended from the Huns. However, mainstream scholarship dismisses a close connection between the Hungarians and Huns. A genetic study published in Scientific Reports in November 2019 led by Neparáczki Endre had examined the remains of three males from three separate 5th century Hunnic cemeteries in the Pannonian Basin. They were found to be carrying the paternal haplogroups Q1a2, R1b1a1b1a1a1 and R1a1a1b2a2. In modern Europe, Q1a2 is rare and has its highest frequency among the Székelys. It is believed that conquering Magyars may have absorbed Avar, Hunnish and Xiongnu influences.

Paternal haplogroups

Hungarian males possess a high frequency of haplogroup R1a-Z280 and a low frequency of haplogroup N-Tat, which is uncommon among most Uralic-speaking populations. Historical Magyar conquerors had around ~37.5% Haplogroup N-M231, as well as lower frequency of Haplogroup C-M217 at 6.25% with the remainder being Haplogroup R1a and Haplogroup Q-M242. An analysis of Bashkir samples from the Burzyansky and Abzelilovsky districts of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the Volga-Ural region, revealed them to belong to the R1a subclade R1a-SUR51, which is shared in significant amounts with the historical Magyars and the royal Hungarian lineage, and representing the closest kin to the Hungarian Árpád dynasty, whose ancestry is traced to 4500 years ago, in modern day Northern Afghanistan. In turn, R1a-SUR51's ancestral subclades R1a-Y2632 are found among the Saka population of the Tien Shan, date: 427-422 BC. In the case of the Southern Mansi males, the most frequent haplogroups were N1b-P43 (33%), N1c-L1034 (28%) and R1a-Z280 (19%). The Konda Mansi population shared common haplotypes within haplogroups R1a-Z280 or N-M46 with Hungarian speakers, which may suggest that the Hungarians were in contact with the Mansi people during their migration to the Carpathian Basin.

According to a study by Pamjav, the Hungarian area of Bodrogköz which is suggested to be a population isolate, found R1a-M458 (20.4%), I2a1-P37 (19%), R1a-Z280 (14.3%), and E1b-M78 (10.2%). Various R1b-M343 subgroups accounted for 15% of the Bodrogköz population. Haplogroup N1c-Tat covered 6.2% of the lineages, but most of it belonged to the N1c-VL29 subgroup, which is more frequent among Balto-Slavic speaking than Finno-Ugric speaking peoples. Other haplogroups had frequencies of less than 5%. Among 100 Hungarian men, 90 of whom from the Great Hungarian Plain, (including Cuman descendants from Kunság region) the following haplogroups and frequencies are obtained: 30% R1a, 15% R1b, 13% I2a1, 13% J2, 9% E1b1b1a, 8% I1, 3% G2, 3% J1, 3% I*, 1% E*, 1% F*, 1% K*. The 97 Székelys belong to the following haplogroups: 20% R1b, 19% R1a, 17% I1, 11% J2, 10% J1, 8% E1b1b1a, 5% I2a1, 5% G2, 3% P*, 1% E*, 1% N. It can be inferred that Szekelys have more significant German admixture. A study sampling 45 Palóc from Budapest and northern Hungary, found 60% R1a, 13% R1b, 11% I, 9% E, 2% G, 2% J2. A study estimating possible Inner Asian admixture among nearly 500 Hungarians based on paternal lineages only, estimated it at 5.1% in Hungary, at 7.4 in Székelys and at 6.3% at Csángós.

Autosomal DNA

Modern Hungarians show relative close affinity to surrounding populations, but harbour a small "Siberian" component associated with Khanty/Mansi, as well as the Nganasan people, and argued to have arrived with the historical Magyars. Modern Hungarians formed from several historical population groupings, including the historical Magyars, assimilated Slavic and Germanic groups, as well as Central Asian Steppe tribes (presumably Turkic and Iranian tribes).

The historical Magyar genome corresponds largely with the modern Bashkirs, and can be modeled as ~50% Khanty/Mansi-like, ~35% Sarmatian-like, and ~15% Hun/Xiongnu-like. The admixture event is suggested to have taken place in the Southern Ural region at 643–431 BCE. Modern Hungarians were found to be admixed descendants of the historical Magyar conquerors with local Europeans, as 31 Hungarian samples could be modelled as two-way admixtures of "Conq_Asia_Core" and "EU_Core" in varying degrees. The historical Magyar component among modern Hungarians is estimated at an average frequency of 13%, which can be explained by the relative smaller population size of Magyar conquerors compared to local European groups.

Other influences

Word roots in Hungarian
Uncertain 30%
Uralic 21%
Slavic 20%
Germanic 11%
Turkic 9.5%
Latin and Greek 6%
Romance 2.5%
Other known 1%

Besides the various peoples mentioned above, the Magyars were later influenced by other populations in the Carpathian Basin. Among these are the Cumans, Pechenegs, Jazones, West Slavs, Germans (more specifically Hungarian Germans but also Transylvanian Saxons or other ethnic German minorities in the former Kingdom of Hungary or in Central and Eastern Europe such as the Zipser Germans, and Vlachs (Romanians).

Ottomans, who occupied the central part of Hungary from c. 1526 until c. 1699, inevitably exerted an influence, as did the various nations (Germans/Banat Swabians, Slovaks, Serbs, Croats, and others) that resettled the depopulated central and southern territories of the kingdom (roughly present-day South Hungary, Vojvodina in Serbia and Banat in Romania) after their departure. Similar to other European countries, Armenian, and Roma ethnic minorities have been living in Hungary since the Middle Ages. Jews have been living in Hungary since the Roman era, as the archeological evidence of Jewish gravestones dating from this period demonstrates.

Diaspora

Main article: Hungarian diaspora
Hungarian diaspora in the world (includes people with Hungarian ancestry or citizenship).
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Hungarian diaspora (Magyar diaspora) is a term that encompasses the total ethnic Hungarian population located outside of current-day Hungary.

Maps of the Hungarian diaspora

Maps

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  • Kniezsa's (1938) view on the ethnic map of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 11th century, based on toponyms. Kniezsa's view has been criticized by many scholars, because of its non-compliance with later archaeological and onomastics research, but his map is still regularly cited in modern reliable sources. One of the most prominent critics of this map was Emil Petrovici. Kniezsa's (1938) view on the ethnic map of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 11th century, based on toponyms. Kniezsa's view has been criticized by many scholars, because of its non-compliance with later archaeological and onomastics research, but his map is still regularly cited in modern reliable sources. One of the most prominent critics of this map was Emil Petrovici.
  • Ethnic map of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1495 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungarians are depicted in orange) Ethnic map of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1495 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungarians are depicted in orange)
  • The "Red Map", based on the 1910 census. Regions with population density below 20 persons/km2 (52 persons/sq mi) are left blank and the corresponding population is represented in the nearest region with population density above that limit. Red colour to mark Hungarians and light purple colour to mark Romanians. The "Red Map", based on the 1910 census. Regions with population density below 20 persons/km (52 persons/sq mi) are left blank and the corresponding population is represented in the nearest region with population density above that limit. Red colour to mark Hungarians and light purple colour to mark Romanians.
  • Map of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1910, based on the Hungarian census of the same year. Hungarians are marked in dark green. Map of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1910, based on the Hungarian census of the same year. Hungarians are marked in dark green.
  • Ethnic map depicting the contemporary ethnic distribution of Hungarians across the Pannonian Basin (also known and referred to as the Carpathian Basin). Legend:   Hungary proper where Hungarians are the ethnic majority people   Regions outside Hungary where there are notable ethnic Hungarian minorities Ethnic map depicting the contemporary ethnic distribution of Hungarians across the Pannonian Basin (also known and referred to as the Carpathian Basin). Legend:   Hungary proper where Hungarians are the ethnic majority people  Regions outside Hungary where there are notable ethnic Hungarian minorities

Culture

Main article: Culture of Hungary

The culture of Hungary shows distinctive elements, incorporating local European elements and minor Central Asian/Steppe derived traditions, such as Horse culture and Shamanistic remnants in Hungarian folklore.

Traditional costumes (18th and 19th century)

Folklore and communities

See also

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