The Use of the Russian Term “Ugor” in Hungarian Archeology

Marisia. Archaeologia-Historia-Patrimonium 6, 2024, p. 137–147.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.63509/MrsAHP.2024.6.08

Abstract:

In Hungarian archeological literature the Russian term ‘Ugor’ can be translated to sign the population of the Ugric language unity – which in Hungarian linguistics is said to be lasted from the 2000 BC until 1000–500 BC –, or it can sign directly the ancestors of the Hungarians. Although if one reads carefully the archeological studies it is clear that in Russian the term „Ugor” is also used to sign the Ugric-speaking populations around the Ural mountain and Western Siberia in the first centuries AD, and also the term ‘Ugor’ can be used equivalently as ‘Ogur’, as in Russian archeology it is a wide spread theory that the European Huns and Oguric (f. e. Ogur, Onogur, Saragur, Kutrigur) people were formed east of the Ural by the unity of the local Ugoric and the settling Xiongnu population. Also the term ‘Ugor’ in Russian is the original designation of the Hungarians and it has a strong relation with the territory name Jugria and the Ob-Ugric people. From the term ‘Ugor’ was partly created the scientific designation of the so called ‘Finno-Ugric’ language-family as well. The original form seems to be ‘Ogur’ as the Byzantine sources testify.