The Fino-Ugric Magyars, who will later become…

The Fino-Ugric Magyars, who will later become known as the Hungarians, had moved in the fourth and fifth centuries CE to the west of the Ural Mountains to the area between the southern Ural Mountains and the Volga River known as Bashkiria (Bashkortostan) and Perm Krai.

Some seven of the Hungarian tribes, who have mingled with and accepted the equestrian culture of various Turkish tribes, move in the early eighth century to the Don River to an area between the Volga, Don and the Seversky Donets rivers.

The Hungarians around the Don River are subordinates of the Khazar khaganate.

Their neighbors are the archaeological Saltov Culture, i.e., Bulgars (Proto-Bulgarians, Onogurs) and the Alans, from whom they soon learn gardening, elements of cattle breeding and of agriculture.

Meanwhile, the descendants of those Hungarians who have stayed in Bashkiria will remain here as late as 1241.