Isolated Racial Groups of Hungary

IF the traveler to Hungary forsakes the usual haunts of tourists to wander into the more remote regions, he will discover, scattered over Hungary and even beyond the borders of the present state, a number of secluded sections where inhabitants, though speaking only the Hungarian language, yet differ in a marked manner from the Magyars' around them in costume, dialect, and folk customs, while in each respect these groups show a remarkable similarity. The problem of the origin of these remote groups is one that Hungarian ethnologists have struggled with for a long time. One thing is certain: they have absolutely no racial connection with the Germanic, Slavic, or other peoples with which the Hungarians have for many centuries been surrounded. They differ in certain respects from other Hungarians; yet in these very matters of costume, dialect, and folk customs the mass of the Magyar people shows far more decidedly the influence of neighboring peoples than does the population of these sections. One of the most notable features of their dialects

Genealogy · Geography · Political science · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies · Soviet and Russian History

• American geographers and the geography of East Central Europe

  Open Access•David Turnock•GeoJournal•2004

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