The Korobčino find (Ukraine) and some problems of the Hungarian ethnogenesis

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ID7516347
AutoresOleg Mihailovič Prihodnûk (autor de correspondencia), Larissa Nikolajevna Čurilova
Año2002
Volumen53
Número1-3
Páginas183-193
Fecha de publicación2002-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaActa Archaeologica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0065-101X • E-ISSN: 1600-0390
EditorialAkadémiai Kiadó (PUBLISHER • HU)
DOI10.1556/aarch.53.2002.1-3.9
OpenAlexW2001647592
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

We do not know any written source that would hint at Hungarians in the Ukraine prior to the 9th century.We know, however, that the Hungarians were already settled in the Dnieper region in the first half of the 9th century, where they held up the Russian delegates on their return from Constantinople in 839.The Nestor chronicle wrote about " Ugrian hills " in the ancient Kiev.They were first mentioned with regard to the year of 882 when Oleg arrived and defeated Askold and Dirt. 1 This place name, associated with the Hungarians, had probably appeared in Kiev much earlier.The annals reported in 898 that the Ugrians had arrived in Kiev from the east and the put up yurts on the hill called Ugor over the Dnieper. 2 The appearance of the Hungarians in South-Eastern Europe is connected to the mobilisation of the Pechenegs on the territories east of the Volga, where Plano Carpini (1246) and Rubruk (1253) su pposed the ancient homeland of the Hungarians. 3 Most of the researchers hold that the ancestors of the Hungarians were members of the Western Turk Kaganate.They got liberated from under its rule around 631 falling at the same time into the power sphere of the Kazars. 4Consequently, the ancient homeland of the Hungarians was in the area of the Southern Ural.From here they started out westwards in the third quarter of the first Millennium. 5The route of this migration was drawn in various ways.Some researchers think that Hungarians first moved to Bashkiria from the Southern Ural region and then crossed the Volga and the Don (N. A. Danilevsky, J. Perényi and others).Others hold that on their westward way they crossed the Volga and the Kama towards the upper reaches of the Oka and the Don (K. A. Grot, J. Moor and ot hers).The migration from the Southern Ural to the Middle Danube Basin took a few centuries.They stopped for long periods during the migration.Among others, according to Constantinos Porphyrogeneitos, they lived in the neighbourhood of Kazaria for three years. 6According to V. P. Šušarin this can be dated from 836 to 838. 7 This is where Levedia could be found, from where the Hungarians moved to the Etelköz.The stop mentioned by Constantinos Porphyrogeneitos was probably not a unique event.Hungarians could stop several times on the route and these stops could last long.Some researchers think that Hungarians lived in the neighbourhood of the Kazars not for three years but at least for a few decades or even a century (P.F. Sum, S. A. Makartej, K. Vestberg and others).Levedia and Etelköz has not as yet been localised with certainty.Levedia has been placed between Kiev and Voronezh (E.Molnár), between the Don and the Danube (I.Erdélyi), and between the Donets and the Dnieper (K

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