“Real” Hungarians Don’t Exist

The Hungarians who settled in the Carpathian basin represented a composite, multi-racial, multi-cultural and multilingual nation. This complexity was the result of prolonged contacts of varying intensity with many European and Asian races and cultures during the centuries of the Hungarian migrations.

Those tribal Hungarians had also come under the influence of several ephemeral nomadic “empires” and had remained for periods of various lengths “submerged” in these empires. During these periods Hungarians were usually referred to by the name of the leading, most aggressive segments of the “empire” in question: Turks, Khazars etc.

The amazing fact is, however, that after each such period of national anonymity Hungarians always emerged again, stronger in numbers, enriched in culture and language, the Hungarian national identity seemingly strengthened by the experience of “submersion.”

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