Hungarians?

Question

My cousin told me that hungarians are mixed with asians, something about a specific group of asians fleeing to europe.

Any hungarian historical info that you can tell me would help me out alot. I am hungarian and my last name is Futo.

So it does make sense to me.

Answer 1

Your cousin was probably talking about the Cumanians and other tribes that settled in Hungary in the Middle Ages. These were nomadic herders and warrior-types who, after a few centuries of mercenary activities in Russia, the Balkans, and the Byzantine Empire, made a treaty in 1239 with King Béla IV of Hungary to settle in the parts of the Hungarian Great Plain which are named for them (Kiskunság & Nagykunság). They were just ahead of the Mongol invasion of 1241. The Pechenegs (Besenyők) and Jazygians (Jászok) had made similar treaties somewhat earlier, but they were smaller groups than the Cumanians. All three tribes retained their individual identities and lifestyles just long enough to influence place names in the areas where they settled; by the Renaissance, they had become completely Hungarianized.

Source: Csorba Csaba: _Árpád örökében: Szent Istvántól III. Andrásig_. Új képes történelem sorozat. Magyar Könyvklub - Helikon Kiadó, 1996.

P.S. Your surname means "runner" in Hungarian. It properly has an acute accent mark on the 'o': futó. It could also conceivably have been "fűtő", meaning "stoker", originally; you'd have to do some family research to see exactly what sorts of diacritics it lost along the way.

Answer 2

Also Attila and his hodrs passed by Hungary and I believe they stablished for some period of time near what today is Budapest.

For sure they had interchange of genes with the locals, rememmber that Attila and his people had mongolic heritage...

Answer 3

I have no idea about that, but I know that sometimes Slovaks can really be Hungarian.

Answer 4

The Magyars were one of those martial peoples who marched out of Central Asia into the pages of European history. Actually they mainly rode in from the far east of Europe west of the Urals. That migration occurred just about 900 A.D. when they conquered the plains of what is now Hungary and Transylvania. They were seven tribes under the leadership of Árpád. It was not just a blatant invasion. The Holy Roman emperor Arnulf asked the Magyars to help subdue the Moravians.

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/hung...

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http://www.filolog.com/crosscultureHisto...

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http://www.country-studies.com/hungary/e...

Answer 5

http://www.webenetics.com/hungary/histor...

This site looks promising.. and I very much like the quotation at the top.