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The
Magyars
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The Magyars,
a Finno-Ugric people, reached the Carpathian Basin after a long,
venturesome journey. Their original homeland was probably in
Western Siberia, an area of high forest extending along the
lower reaches of the Ob, from where they moved progressively
south. In the course of the first millennium BC, they split
from the Ob-Ugrian group, and it was at this time that they
began to refer to themselves by the name Magyar. For reasons
yet obscure, between 500 BC and AD 550 they migrated to the
area of modern Bashkiria, a region delineated by the Volga and
Kama rivers and the Ural Mountains. The entire region later
became known as Magna Hungaria. Approximately the same time
the Magyars probably divided into seven tribes known as the
Nyék, Megyer, Kér, Kürtgyarmat, Tarján,
Jenõ, and Keszi.
REFERENCE:
http://www.idg.hu/expo/hosok_tere/gero/Magyars.html
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