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ly that these data were in general not contrary with the sequence of distance established by PENROSE'S method. As far as the ethnical picture is concerned, an attempt was made, after the anthropological evaluation given above, to obtain it with recourse (besides the anthropologic cal results),to ercheological, historical, linguistical and histochemical data. By analysing the theme posed above, the followings should be considered interdisciplinarily

: The name Oroszvár (in English: Russian fort) appears already in the Anonymus chronicle (the historian of the Hungarian Middle Ages). According to the chronicler, also Russian ("orosz" sing in Hungarian) joined the Hungarians of the Conquest Era, and these had allegedly settled here, to defend the western confines of the country. In the possession of Slav geographical terms, I. KNTEZSA, Hungarian linguist, suggests it a possibility that there had been Slav settlements in the neighbourhood of Oroszvár already in the eleventh century. J.

NEMESKÉRI mentions, in his preliminary report on the the population of Orosz vár(based on this cemetery), that there exists a connection with the indigeneous Pannonian population in the ethnic composition. L, 3ARK0CZI showed that the survival of the original population is better observable along the Roman limes; he also mentioned that there had been a limes camp, under the name Gerulata, also at the site of Oroszvár. Concerning ANONYMUS, I. GYŐRPPY remarked that his chronicle is rather a phantasy than a record of actual fact. Accordingly, Oroszvár connection with Russians is also doubtful. This author also expounds

,concerning the word "orosz" and referring to the linguist P. PÁPAI-PÁRIZ, that it underwent a semantic shift: the term denoted "frontier sentry" in the earlier centuries. - In I. LENGYEL'

s opinion, this cemetery shows, on the basis of serological investigations, connections with the Late Avar Period population (VII-IX c), the Great Migration population ( V-VI I c), indeed, also with the basic population of the Roman Period living in Pannónia. Ill