The Korobčino find (Ukraine) and some problems of the Hungarian ethnogenesis
The Korobčino find (Ukraine) and some problems of the Hungarian ethnogenesis

Summary/Abstract: We do not know any written source that would hint at Hungarians in the Ukraine prior to the 9th century. We know, however, that the Hungarians were already settled in the Dnieper region in the first half of the 9th century, where they held up the Russian delegates on their return from Constantinople in 839. The Nestor chronicle wrote about “Ugrian hills” in the ancient Kiev. They were first mentioned with regard to the year of 882 when Oleg arrived and defeated Askold and Dirt. This place name, associated with the Hungarians, had probably appeared in Kiev much earlier. The annals reported in 898 that the Ugrians had arrived in Kiev from the east and the put up yurts on the hill called Ugor over the Dnieper.

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