The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-02-01 / 2. szám
Page 5 Map showing the first Hungarian settlements in the Middle Danubian Basin during the second Millenium B.C. author concludes that Hungarophon human beings were the first permanent dwellers of the Middle Danube Basin and they are to be credited with the creation of the first two states there in the Bronze Age: the one in the western half of the Basin (today called Transdanubia), and the other in the eastern half of it (today Transylvania) These first permanent settlers of the Danube Basin did not die out, nor were they driven away, but contiued to flourish in subsequent times without interruption until they were eventually joined by other Hungarians pouring out of their Caucasian and Caspian secondary homes during the first millenium A.D. 3-. Another large group of ancient Near Eastern Hungarians crossed the Caucasusu Mountains and installed themselves in the vast plain of Eastern Europe. There they split up and one branch marched towards the North, along the Dnieper River and evantually settled in the Baltic area, there founding Esthonia, Findland and several other minor states. A second branch advanced along the Volga River, always on the right bank, until it settled down in the Middle Volga area and the Kama region. The descendants of both of these branches are living in their respective areas up to the presen. 4. What happened to that part of the early Hungarian population which stayed behind in their cradleland, the ancient Near East? They were overrun by desert peoples, mainly Semits (the Assyrians) during the second and first milleniums B.C. and were cruelly exterminated or driven out of their ancestral homes. Those who escaped the whole sale massacre, set sail in successive waves for southern and western Europe, linked up with their brethren already in place, and peopled the land later called Italy, France and Great Britain. As a consequence of their earlier expatriation and later dispersion, large parts of Europe became Hungarophon territories in the Bronze Age. They formed the mysterious ethnic “substratum” of Western Europe, which linguists have been unable to identify until now. We know who they were, however, by the thousands of place-names they bequeathed us which have clear Hungarian meanings. On the other hand there are great number of words the Etruscan, Latins and Brithons had in common with the Hungarians. Another group of evidence for the existence of a Hungarian ethnic substratum in Western Europe consists of several archaeological finds bearing short inscriptions deciphered in Hungarian by the author. 5. The above outlined new vision of Hungarian ancient history has been chiefly elaborated by scholars now living outside the boundaries of Hungary. The Hungarian ‘official” historians indeed show almost no interest in this new field of research. Only in the last couple of years have new signs become discernable which signal that a favorable change is in the offing. That would be a welcome event.
