The term ''Eastern Hungarians'' (; also called ''Eastern Magyars'') is used in scholarship to refer to peoples related to the Proto-Hungarians, that is, theoretically parts of the ancient community that remained in the vicinity of the

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(at the

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– Asian border) during the

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and as such did not participate in the

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The possible locations of the remnants of Hungarians

Yugra

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() has been believed by some to have been the Hungarian ''

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'' (homeland), which is today inhabited by the

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and

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, two related ethnic groups.

Magna Hungaria

The term "Eastern Hungarians" is also used in relation to the ''Magna Hungaria'' of

Friar Julian Friar Julian () was one of a group of Hungarian Dominican friars who, in 1235, left Hungary in order to find those Magyars who — according to the chronicles — remained in the eastern homeland. After travelling a great distance, Friar ...

( 1235), located at

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(the land of the

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). where Julian was able to communicate with the locals in his Hungarian language.

Savard Hungarians

According to Hungarian scholarship, there was a group of "Savard Hungarians" that broke off and moved across the Caucasus into Persian territory in the 8th century.Lajos Gubcsi
Hungary in the Carpathian Basin
MoD Zrínyi Media Ltd, 2011

Theory of Kummagyaria

There is also the theory of "Kummagyaria" (), in which a group that stayed behind possessed a country north of Caucasus. According to László Bendefy, the approximate location of Kummagyaria is the riparian area of the Kuma River,

Southern Russia Southern Russia or the South of Russia ( rus, Юг России, p=juk rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a Colloquialism, colloquial term for the southernmost geographic portion of European Russia. The term is generally used to refer to the region of Russia's So ...

Odorico Raynaldi Odorico Raynaldi or Rinaldi (; 20 June 1594 – 22 January 1671), also known as Raynald, was an Italian historian and Oratorian. Biography Raynaldi was born at Treviso of a patrician family and studied at Parma and Padua. He joined the Ora ...

(1595–1671) mentioned Papal relations with Jeretany (), called the ruler of Hungarians, Malkaites and Alans, in the 1320s. Earlier, Polish diplomat Andrzej Taranowski (1569) had mentioned the latter information. In 1712, the French traveller Aubrey de la Motraye passed through the area. His notes state that from what he heard from the local

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population, he maintained that the city of Mazsar was formerly inhabited by Magyars.Tardy, Lajos. ’'Régi hírünk a világban'’, Gondolat, Budapest, 1979

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