"Hungary is the Huns from the East?" This kind of opinion is widely spread on the Internet, and many people believe it to be true, there is a word "Hungary", so does Hungary really have anything to do with the Xiongnu?
The fact that the situation may slap a lot of people in the face!
This Hungary in Europe has nothing to do with the Xiongnu in fact, and everyone should no longer wishfully think that there is any connection between the two.
The origin of the Hungarians has been well studied!
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The Hungarians never said what kind of descendants they were from the Huns, and they had nothing to do with the Huns who ravaged Europe.
There was a Hungarian leader who did say that their ancestors came from the East, but this East is different from the East as we understand it!
The Hungarians were neither Huns nor Huns, but Magyars!
First of all, figure out the relationship between the Xiongnu and the Huns!
In fact, the current academic definition of the Xiongnu and the Huns is still not particularly clear, we can be sure that there are inextricable links between the Xiongnu and the Huns, but the Huns are not equal to the Huns!
It is likely that the Huns and Xiongnu were different tribes living on the same Mongolian plateau.
Later, the Xiongnu began to expand abroad, and most of the Huns were forced to move westward to Europe, and those who did not leave were integrated into the Xiongnu.
In other words, at present, it is not even fully understood whether the Huns are Xiongnu or not, let alone the relationship between Hungary and the Xiongnu.
So what is the origin of the Hungarians?
The fact is that the Hungarians considered themselves Magyars, and they never regarded the Xiongnu as their ancestors.
In the Magyar context, the word "Hungary" means "ten tribes", that is, the first ten Magyars to settle in Europe, and they are the ancestors of the modern Hungarians.
And according to research research, the composition of these ten Magyar tribes is also different!
Three of these tribes belong to the Turkic language family, and the other seven belong to the Finno-Ugric language family, all of which are very different from the dominant Indo-European languages in Europe!
At the same time, Hungarians are different from other European countries in some aspects of folklore.
For example, in Europe, Indo-Europeans have the first name first and the last name last; The Hungarian tradition of naming is that the surname comes first and the first name comes last, which is the same as the custom in the East.
However, since Hungary joined the European Union, the habit of putting the surname in the first place has become less and less.
In some respects, the Hungarians do seem a bit out of place, but in terms of language and physical characteristics, the Hungarians are at most a Finnish-Ugric ethnic group influenced by some Turkic culture, and have no connection with the Huns, let alone the Huns in the far east.
From the perspective of genetic testing, Hungarians are very pure white!
Analysis of the Y-chromosome haplotype (i.e., paternal ancestry) through genetic testing shows that Hungary is very close to Slovakia and the Czech Republic in Eastern Europe, and even Austria in Central Europe.
This is enough to show that the Hungarians are very pure white European types, and the Xiongnu we call are the main body of the East Asian yellow race that arose on the Mongolian plateau, and the racial type is completely different from the Hungarians!
If some people insist on associating Hungary with the Xiongnu, can the Germanic people of Austria and the Slavs of Czechoslovak also be regarded as descendants of the Xiongnu?
Through genetic testing, it can be intuitively seen that Hungarians do not contain yellow genes!
And there is also a cold knowledge, Finns and Turks actually have a lot of yellow genes, so it is better to say that Finland or Turkey is more reliable than that Hungary has a relationship with the Huns!
Actions speak louder than words! Genetic testing is the most accurate, and it is useless to say anything else!
The historical Magyars did indeed claim to be descendants of the Huns!
The Magyars, the predecessors of the Hungarians, did claim to be descendants of the Huns when they first arrived in Europe.
Why?
Because the strength of the Magyars is so small that they may be attacked by the rest of Europe at any time.
In order to protect themselves, the Magyars came up with a clever plan, claiming that they were the descendants of Attila, the king of the Huns, and at the same time began to establish a foothold in Hungary.
Why did the Magyars raise the banner of the Huns?
Just because the sense of oppression of the Xiongnu was too strong at the beginning, European countries will be terrified when they hear the word Xiongnu, and the name of "God's whip" is not called in vain!
It was precisely by virtue of the name of the Xiongnu that today's Hungary was gradually developed and formed, which also made many people who did not know the truth directly regard Hungary as an orthodox Xiongnu descendant!